Torran Rodgers, BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester

Fantastic Voyage Submission Post Fantastic Voyage :Art of by Torran Rodgers on Scribd Reflective Statement At the start of this project i set myself a task that i thought would be challenging for me under the current circumstances at the time. It turns out i found this task near impossible under the circumstances that i found myself in shortly after. However as much as i am disappointed in the results of this project i can see this as a fairly good learning point.  I have learnt better ways of creating shots within Maya, as well as finding how important it is to understand how Arnold works and its time needed. I think in the future i need to be more aware of circumstance and use my time more wisely when i am able to be productive. After many problems with the software i have also realised that saving my work may not always be the only option to keeping it safe and backing it up is important. As far as the project goes i feel i definitely need to work on story-boarding and

Toolkit one Animation Submission https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/11/animate-session-291119.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/11/animate-session-81119.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/11/animate-session-181019.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/10/animate-251019.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/10/animate-session-111019.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/10/animate-session-41019.html I found animate hard to grasp and spent most of my time redrawing lines instead of animating. I feel like I have done a fair amount of 2D drawn animation's however i found it hard to replicate this on the digital tablet and software. Overall even though i struggled i enjoyed the sessions, even if more time was spent struggling with drawing then animating.

Toolkit one Life Drawing Submission https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/10/life-drawing-211019.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/11/life-drawing-session-181119.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/11/life-drawing-session-111119.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/11/life-drawing-session-71019.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2020/05/life-drawing-extra.html I saw a steady improvement to my life drawing skills over the many weeks of session, I enjoyed the simplicity of having an hour to just draw and work on my drawing. Even if my drawing skills improved slowly i feel that the different challenges presented in the sessions helped open up new ideas on how to get the figure down on the page and after a few session made me a lot looser when it came to the finality of my drawings, and instead could focus on improvement and readability of drawings over the appearance of the drawing itself

Test Render Fantastic Voyage This is a test render i took after texturing my models as well as lighting the scene and adding plants to the environment to push the overgrown nature of the environment.

Fantastic Voyage Modelling Base models for my animation

Toolkit one maya submission post https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2020/05/rocket-path.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2020/05/walkcycle.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2020/05/rigging.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2020/05/maya-toolkit-previs.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2020/05/arnold-lighting-and-rendering-part-7.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2020/05/arnold-lighting-and-rendering-part-6.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2020/03/lighting-and-rendering.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2020/05/arnold-lighting-and-rendering-part-11.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2020/03/blend-shapes.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2020/03/nonlinear-deformer.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/10/maya-session-011019.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/10/maya-session-151019.html https://torranrodgerscaa.blogspot.com/2019/10/maya-lesson-081019.html I enjoyed t

Rocket Path

WalkCycle

Rigging

Maya toolkit Previs RollShot PitchShot

Arnold lighting and rendering part 6 gobo  gridlight  lightblocker

Arnold lighting and rendering part 7

Arnold lighting and rendering Part 11