This week we had a fresh start on the new term starting with our first class being Maya’s class on a Monday. We got explained what we would be doing over the next few weeks. he gave us examples of 2 different things, one being different views on oddly satisfying 3D animated videos. The other and most important one is the Rube Goldberg machines that he showed also different examples of.
We started the class by looking into dynamic animations, so we started by making a simple animation of a ball bouncing and falling down stairs. so we first started animating the bouncing ball after that we also made a ball that in real life has a bit more mass to it, it falls off the stairs instead of bouncing. (scroll down to see a video example)
As I said before we got introduced to the Goldberg machine which is a machine of cause and effect, where if the machine gets activated there is a chain reaction. In Maya, we got introduced to the bullet effect, which is something to use to define for example gravity of a certain object. We started by creating a simple domino effect as shown in the video below.