Motion Tracking/Capture

In the next week or two I'll be posting results and some simple tutorials on motion tracking.

Rendering

Over the last two months my project has drastically changed. As I'm sure you know (if you've been following my progress) my original plan was to make a visual effects-driven short film. BUT, due to circumstances out of my control, eg. weather, I had to change my strategy to fit the April 25 WCC Art Gala submission deadline.
For this particular deadline I decided to compile my best renders and create a show reel for my work over the past 2 semesters. Don't worry, I'll still be completing what I originally set out to do probably in the next few weeks. Anyways, Enjoy my Reel!

My 2010-11 Show Reel

Rigging

One small step for an alien robot; one giant leap for a more natural spring deformation in maya. =)

Ever animated a spring? It's quite a complicated task to recreate a realistic looking spring in maya. Just try to find an existing tutorial that isn't extremely over-complicated to create a just single spring.
I ran into this huge wall in my transformers project because I wanted to animate very realistic shocks on my robot.

Here is a preview of my rig.

I will post a tutorial of my new rig very soon. Hopefully this will save people some time in the future!