Hand in! RaveLive Ident :BeeHive

Compositing

After rendering out the project using Tiffs, i then used after effects to play the Tiffs as a Quicktime movie.

Rendering

Now that the modeling, Texturing, Rigging, Animating and Lightening is finished, it is now time to rendering the bumble bee project. i decided to render the animation as Tiffs then quicktime movie. I realized that they may be possibilities of there being an error due to that reason.

Didn't take to long to render because the animation was short which came up to 15 seconds.

Animating

i found animating the bumble bee rather difficult because the rigging wasn't properly done, so it made it harder for me to animate.

Reflection

Ident look! Bee Hive

Here i created this image for the bumble bee.

Bumble Bee (Fur)

Bumble Bee animation Test

Wings

Reference

Rigging / weighting

Occlusion

Here i did a occlusion on the bumble bee which looks really good.

Bumble Bee Texture

I completed the model of the of the bumble bee and textured it using the maya texturing materials.

Below i included a quicktime clip of my model of the bumble bee in 3d. i created a turntable of the bumble bee to see the finishing results of the model.

Bumble Bee Model

The next part was the stage was for me to create the bubble bee in maya using the reference that i had already gathered. i started by importing one of my side sketches of the bubble bee. i then began to use the shapes to constructing the model.

Here is a clip of my model in progress using Maya.

3D Logo Model

Here are to snapshots of the Rave Live Logo which i created using illustrator and Maya. This was pretty straight toward to make using the help of Digital tutors. i first created the initial logo in illustrator using the pen tool and converted the lines into vector. this was done so that the line could be read when imported into Maya.

i also looked at different surfaces of texture, which was interesting to view.

References- Textures

Here i did some references on honey cone textures where i was looking at a variety of styles for my project. i was trying to found a good source of reference material which could be used for my 3d logo, part of a texture. i selected images below were also taken from the internet in google.

References-Bumble Bee

The idea we came up with was going to be officially the bubble bee storyboard, Here i did some references on bubble bees and their environment habitat. i found these useful images on the internet and looked at different styles of design. e.g ...cartoony and realistic. After looking at these images i took the approach of designing my own concepts, to going the realistic style in 3D.

Client meeting- Pitching ideas

Today me and Shuhel mate up with the RaveLive mangers to Pitch our ideas to them. we had a variety of ideas which we sold to them which they like. They love our ideas and thought about putting only 1 or 2 ideas which was the bubble bee storyboard and the spaceship storyboard. They did say that we may want to consider making only one ident for them due to the short time we only had left to producing the work. We only had 2 weeks to produce the ravelive ident which was going to be 15 seconds long. Me and Shuhel decided that we were going to produce an ident each for Ravelive.