Protomeshing - 'D' Stage

 

Death to Dorothy

 

 

Visual Documentation of Work

Animation Reel

Animation Blend Space and Blueprint Progress in Unreal 

 

Written Paragraph

What I Did

For the 'D' Stage of the Interactive Experience for the Death to Dorothy project, I focused most of my time on animation and then made progress on an animation state machine for the witch. First, I made some block outs for the lion since I wasn't able to last stage. I blocked out a walk cycle, a walk-turn for pathing, an idle cycle, and an attack animation. Then I blocked out some new animations for the witch, including a jump and alert/transition from idle to walk/attack animation. I made some revisions to the witch's idle animation and transferred the witch's walk cycle to the revised D-Stage rig next. After that, I imported all these animations into Unreal and created a blend space for the witch to go from idle to alert to walk. Once that was created, I made an animation blueprint for the witch and started building a state machine. I need to transfer the witch's attack animation to the D-Stage rig before I can complete the first pass state machine.

 

Perforce Directory

Initial Block Out - 'F' Stage

 

Death to Dorothy

 

 

Visual Documentation of Work

Animation List 

 

Rig and Animation Reel

  

 

Written Paragraph

What I Did

For the initial block out of the Interactive Experience for the Death to Dorothy project, I worked on rigs and animation. 

First, I tackled the character rig for the witch character after KC modeled them. Working in Maya, I placed joints along the mesh to form a skeleton for the Witch, creating FK arms and IK legs. Then I painted the first pass skin weights on the mesh. Once I was done, I made controllers for the joints and constrained them to the joints so I could use them to animate with.

Next, I did the prop rig for the axe the witch wields. I made 2 joints for it, a root at the bottom and another at the top, and then painted the skin weights so that all the influence was held by the root joint. Then I made a controller for it and placed it where the witch would grab it. After I completed the two rigs, I exported the skeleton and mesh and imported then into our Unreal project.

 

Once both the Witch Rig and the Axe Rig were done, I constrained the axe to the witch's hand and then started animating. I made rough block outs for 3 animations for the witch: an idle cycle, a walk cycle, and an attack animation. I only did keyframes but I animated in spline so that we could see the range of motion more clearly. The skin weights are pretty rough so there is some clipping of the mesh. Once I was done with each animation, I baked the animation onto the skeleton and then exported the animation. Then I imported the animation into Unreal.

 

I also created a list of animation we'll need in the future, which are complete versions of the animations I did for the witch, a run cycle and some transitions for the witch, and all the animations for lion. 

  

 

Perforce Directory

Let's Make It Stick

 

Death to Dorothy

 

Scarecrow Stickers

Cricut Design Space

 

Module 2 Week 07 (Simple Crate and Barrel)

 

 Game Asset Creation 101

Texture/material Creation and Final Display of Work 

 

Beauty Shots

High Resolution Screenshots

 

 

Movie Made with Camera Sequencer 

 

 

Process

GAC 14 - Painting Maps in Substance Painter

 

GAC 15 - Exporting Maps from Substance Painter

 

GAC 16 - Pushing All Our Work to UE

 

GAC 17 - Showing Our Work in UE in a Professional Way

Tech Art Homework #7

 

Animation State Machines

 

Character Blueprint

Idle, Run, Sprint Blend Space

 

Character Animation Blueprint

Animation State Machine

 

Control Mappings 

The W, A, S, and D keys move the character around and Mouse X and Mouse Y move the camera. The F key causes the character to drop to their knees and start firing. 

Game Mode Set 

 

File Directory in Perforce

Use of Composition

 

Death to Dorothy

 

Lion Arena 2D/3D Concept Illustration

 To create this, I first blocked out the environment in Maya and then lit it with a few lights. Then I made a background with a bright color to make it easy to remove in Photoshop.

After that, I playblasted an image from my Maya file and brought it into Photoshop where I removed the bright red background and then roughly photobashed the 3D models I made over a few images I found to use for the background. Then I drew over that photobash for the final illustration.