@Alan: Final Toolkit Maya Master Post

Maya Toolkit Presentation by megleslie

Rather a Lot of Things

So, muggins here has been working in the dark again, even though she promised not to.

To begin with, here's my definitive influence map. I've been on a bit of a Daniel Danger kick lately, and it really shows in my lighting.

 Composition and colour thumbnails. Those last three were where I really hit my stride with the lights.

A little .gif testing how I might animate the glow effect, which I ultimately scrapped in favour of the light-fixed-to-camera idea.

A couple of paintings with which I got into arguments.

And some concept paintings of, from top to bottom, a centrosome containing two centrioles, a group of vesicles approaching a mitochondrion, and the nucleolus within the nucleus.

Commission Script by megleslie

One script.

A rough, not-quite-finished storyboard that's finished enough for me to know what I'm doing.

And an utterly unfinished animatic; there's no sound, and it's almost completely un-timed. The fades are to indicate that the film will be made up of a single continuous shot, with no hard edits at all to suggest a continuing movement through the cell. The animatic will be complete by my pitch on Tuesday.

So there you have it. And only 15 minutes after Sunday ended, too.

Toolkit: Old Alley

Not entirely pleased with the bump mapping, I'll admit.

Toolkit: Alien Orbs Lighting

Perhaps my least clunky lighting setup to date.

Toolkit: Pencil & Eraser Character Final + Egg Cup

Still not entirely happy, lighting seems a bit muddy now I look back at it.

And an egg cup.

Toolkit: Whimsy House Renders + Kitchen

Forgive me, I improvised a little with a couple of these.