MARUI VR Starting Osaka Castle

Giving MARUI a try. It is basically using Maya in VR.  It is slow going and needs some work, but has huge potential!

Facial Rig Test...

Quick facial test of my rig.  Looking pretty good.

The Eyes Have It!

Looking at creating the eyes for the sunflower, I have tried a couple attempts at doing deformers. But when the Iris rotates, the deformer makes the iris deform as well.  What I wanted to do is create an eye that has a non-round shape, but has the pupil and iris keep a round shape.  I went with a projected texture and normal map.  I think it will work splendidly.

This is the deformer eye rig.

This is the texture projected eye rig.

Video updates of some farmer work

Jeans start

Farmer spin

Hat weaving 101

Hands...

The hands of my farmer are going to be more important than the face.  I have a vision of the hands to be something like this

old knobby and wrinkly  I got this image from here http://www.themerrymonk.com/the-whiskey-mystic/

Body of the farmer is going to look something similar to this.
I got this pic from this site. non-commercial use https://www.flickr.com/photos/chris-warren-photos/9561150996

Initial image of my farmer head

I wanted something leaning towards Popeye

Maya Help: Camera Sequencer

Looking to use the Camera Sequencer in Maya to pull the animatic into a 3D animatic



Maya Help: Camera Sequencer:



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Advanced Skeleton | Maya Rigging Tools

Getting ready to rig my character, I came upon this little gem. Free for personal use!



Advanced Skeleton | Maya Rigging Tools:



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