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Week 19: Garage work Nuke (Q&A)

This class was many for asking Gonzalo questions about things we had not finished yet or problems we have with the different homework assignment. For me I only had one bigger problem with my garage. This problem has been with the shadows that are suppose to be casting on the wall from the objects I had made. While asking the question Gonzalo also pointed out that My color correction on the machine should be a bit different.

So far I will show what I had worked on for my garage project:

I wanted to create my own 3D object for our garage project so I firstly created a 3D space of the Garage room so that I could transfer this to maya and start creating my own object for in the scene.

I already had an idea to start of the creation I wanted to make in my Garage. I wanted to give it an industrial feeling by using big pipes through my scenes. As seen below I have some reference images of scenes that have that industrial feeling to it.

I imported the 3D scene into maya and started to work on a pipe system that I wanted to have in my Garage scene with the machine. I started of with making two different pipes (a straight one and a 90 degrees one). with these two pipes I could just copy and past to create a whole system.

Pipes in the scene

I tried to texture the pipes old and rusty, I rendered out the pipes from maya in an alpha setup so I could import it in nuke and try to match all the different elements together. as you see in the image all the different elements don’t fit in with each other. The colors on the machine are too green and the pipes eye too blue for the background. This is something I still have to work on but one of the main things im also missing is the shadows. I have tried this in different ways but still cant figure it out so I will have to work on this for the next class. Gonzalo told us he sent an example for the shadows to cast.

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Week 13: Rude Goldberg Machine [2]

This week we had self study due to Nick being sick. During this time I worked on my Rude Goldberg machine, I searched some inspiration to make in one cohesive thing, so I looked for how I wanted to do my background. I decided to go with moving gears and a clock in the middle. This clock will add to the Rude Goldberg machine at the end of my simulation. I searched for references for my clock and gears and tried to shape these objects by these references.

For the clock I also followed a tutorial. In this tutorial I tried to recreate a basic but interesting shape and get the seconds, minutes, and hour marks and the numbers. This tutorial was a bit fast but in the end I was able to follow it quite a good amount.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kliXsAz6GEM
Tutorial

See below a few of the references I used to create the different gears and the clock as well (the mixture of the gears and the clock). I decided to create 3 types of gears so that it does not all look the same. Then I copied and pasted these gears to create a wall like pattern for my background. Then I grabbed every individual gear and rotated these as close as I could to make them look aligned, I did this by using the Z rotate key.

Example of the gears spinning

After this I decided to create a little bit more realism by adding some pillars to my build to hold up a few of my bullet rails and such. I google searched some images as reference to a stable metal pillar and placed these under my platform and under my first slider rails. Below you will see 2 of the reference images I used to create the pillars on my build.

I also decided to replace my ramp idea I had last week by doing a funnel slide, This slide will give more direction and will give the machine a little bit of a twist. This slide will be textured transparent so you will be able to see through it and see the sphere roll down the tube. Also for this part I needed some kind of support beams otherwise the slide would just be floating. I added these spy glass looking things to create the support beams for the slide.

Slide model

At the end of my Rude Goldberg Machine there will be this button that gets pressed by the newtons cradle that I made last week. When this button gets pushed the time will start going really fast on the clock. this will be the end frame of my Rude Goldberg Machine.

I’m still having a little bit of problems connecting all these different parts. One of the spheres of Newtons cradle is suppose to get hold up by this tube until the ball will smash this tube in to pieces and lets go of this sphere. I have not yet figured out how to do this. the tube I made with the shatter effect will shatter from the start of the video due to the force of the sphere of Newtons cradle pulling downwards. In the video below you can see a small example of how far I am with this part but yet to get the timing right.