Thursday, August 2, 2007

The Springbok Sasol Add



We have been working on the Sasol Add for two months and have gained a lot of knowledge within Zbrush, Tracking, realistic texturing and lighting in Maya. I also wrote mel scripts to assist us in the making of the environment.

My first script was a texture assignment script that automatically assign a high resolution map of 4k to foreground objects and assign low res texture to object in the background. The same script was used to assign displacement map to foreground objects and bumps to background objects.

The second script i wrote was very helpful, especially with random placement of objects on a curve, example random rocks and structure placements. First you create a object library that you want to use to generate the random object placement, and then you draw a curve on a object to give the script points to place the objects.

It was a fantastic add to work on, and also to be working with the Countries best director Keith Rose.

Monday, July 30, 2007

Mel scripts for Sasol Add.




I have recently worked on a few mel scripts to help me with big scenes and automating procedures with the Sasol springbok add. I was responsible for 3d tracking and scene setups on the Sasol Add. Here is a sneak peak of some shots.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Hand / Mocp Riggs

The past two years I have explored the world of rigging and wrote my own rigging scripts to make the process of rigging more time efficient. The first rig is made for hand animation and you can generate your own rig by just clicking a few buttons. the second rig is more complex and have the capabilities to blend different body parts on the rig between Mocap, FK and IK. And then Finally I wrote a user interface for that animators to make their lives a bit easier.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Projects

This is a clip of some of the projects that i have worked on the past few years, but there is much more in the pipeline. Like Mulligan, Karma, Sasol ect.

Facial Setups