Tewts - The Final Version!

Matte Paintings

Here is one of two matte paintings we will be using in various shots. The other is similar, with more sunset.

Shot 02 in motion

Hi-res

There are issues with the eyelids that have since been fixed (motion blur problems)

Fun with Paint effects

I've been dressing the shots up with some grass, ground-cover and flowers using Maya paint effects.

Contact Sheet

Our CONTACT SHEET is now up (And pinned to the right-hand bar-->). Here we will update the shots as the lighting is updated.

More Foliage

Working on modeling and shading more foliage to populate the scene and make it look less sparse.
These are my fan leaves inspired by ginko biloba leaves. Still working on the shading, though the subsurface is coming along nicely.

Splash Simulation

Splash has been giving me fits. I was originally working in Realflow - but found out I couldn't get my stuff back into Maya. I then tried to do an actual fluid simulation using nParticles. It's basically unbearably slow and still looks like crap. A new method is now possible since now the splash is happening slightly off camera. Will be doing that while I wait for Pixar to reply to my Slim issues!

Updated fluid

I've learned some new things about managing fluids, so I decided to do a quick rehash of this simulation since it's basically all up in the camera. Here is the new and improved fart fluid simulation.

Landscape continued

Am working on adding some random grass and rocks.

Ripples

This is the ripple simulation for the tadpole. Almost final sets got in today - so this bad boy is going to get expanded over the next week. In the meantime - I have been working on getting this and the fluid simulations to render in PRman. Not an easy task when Maya Fluids aren't supported!

Showing the issues we have been having with shadow maps. We were about to scale the whole animation up (what a nightmare) when I remembered the focus attribute on shadow maps. Whew!



I should note - the light is not getting brighter from step to step - it's actually less and less self-shadowing that causes this.

Tadpole shader DONE

Fixed some of the seam issues by feathering out the borders in the map as well as smoothing the mesh before rendering.














UPDATE: Added some subsurface scattering and alpha tweaks

Lily pads

Created four different lily pads to break up the colors

Waterscape layout

Soon to be textured.

View from shot 9

Fart in face iteration

Fart in face iteration

Gas art direction

In animated GIF form!

Fatfrog painted

More farting

Fart compilation

Eyeballs and shading

Tadpole Shading

Updated animation

hi-res

Zbrush tad

Gas Fog Test

Test to get fluids with guided motion with a Maya Fluid. Needs more little swirls and eddies, but overall motion seems to be controllable. Hopefully when scaled up it will still be directable.

New Ending

Dynamics test