Tag: learning

Character Feature: Queenie

Post author By Lindi Mallory
Post date July 23, 2019
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Does this eye look familiar,
But rather, I have a gut feeling
To whom this eye belongs too
Its just a feeling,
I’m going to lean and cling too
A scripture from the game, written as a clue for the player

The queen demands something from the player, and so the player is forced to fight her.

In Freudian dream symbols, parents or other highly respected persons are presented as queens and kings.

The player encounters this enemy, sensing familiarity, but their identity is unknown. By beating this boss, the player learns the identity of the character and is given a clue to why they have descended into their own subconsciousness.

Tags 2d, 2danimation, animation, artist, character design, developer, digital painting, eyeball, freud, freudian, game, indiegame, learning, piskel, pixel, pixelart, queen, sprite sheet, spritesheet, symbols

2019 Freudian_Forest_2019

Unity Health Meter

Balancing the Id, Ego, and Superego

Here I created pixel assets in Pyxel Edit and then imported them into Unity to use them as sprite components. After a few hours of research, I found a way to created meter bars. This meter bar is circular and consists of three eyeballs that represent the the id, ego, and superego.

id=red eye
ego=green eye
superego=blue eye

As the player continues through the game, he/she will collect items that will effect each attribute. The amount of the item collected effects the meter rather, so it registers quantity over quality.

For example the id responds to excessive amounts of donuts (5+), while the superego responds to one or two donuts. The ego attempts to find a balance between the two and prefers if you eat broccoli with a 1 or less donuts.

Tags animating, c#, c#coding, coding, developer, edit, game, game engine, indie developer, learning, pixel, pixel art, pixelart, pyxel, pyxel edit, unity, video

2019 Animation_2019

Welcome Back Animation

Created in Adobe After Effects to greet fall students for Oklahoma Universities Video Media Services’ social media.

2018 3D Modeling Animation_2018

Motion Capture: Dancing Shapes

Post author By Lindi Mallory
Post date July 5, 2019
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The shaky movement you perceive the beginning of the video, is captured using motion capture software. This piece functions like a moving sculpture. I attached squares and a helix, adding additional animations and then a particle system to this piece. This was created using Autodesk Maya and the video edits were done in Adobe Premiere.

Tags camera motion, geometry, learning, lindi, motion capture, motiondesign, student

2018 3D Modeling Animation_2018

Cycling Butterfly

Autodesk Maya Cleanup

Creating this animation had many small steps involved, one of the biggest was prepping the butterfly.

I found a free butterfly model on turbo squid modeling website. The amount of polygon faces was very high. I ended up cleaning and then restructuring some parts of the butterfly to allow for more concise weigh painting and rigging. I soon learned that it would have been much more efficient to model a lower poly version of the butterfly. I then rigged the butterfly to animate a flying movement.

Mudbox

I Next I exported the model over to Mudbox.

I created a custom fire themed airbrush color. Referencing a chemical chart I found online:

FINAL EDIT

See 28 to 38 days for more of the concept behind this piece.

I layered a large amount of different sounds and music together to create the music for the small clip.

3D Modeling Animation_2018

Cycling Dreams, Learning Autodesk Maya

Post author By Lindi Mallory
Post date July 5, 2019
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Learning Autodesk Maya has been both exhilarating and challenging as an Artist. Before a year ago extruding or moving a vertices was foreign to me. Today I enjoy making small narrative stories with the skills I have learned so far.

I took a a cylinder primitive and then animated it to perform an interesting rhythmic movement. Next, I placed it into a MASH and added random and color nodes. I then took a camera an animated various viewpoints and perspectives.

On the more conceptual side of things, I was exploring the feeling of something that doesn’t belong, what does a dream of an internal struggle look like.

“Feeling at once agitated and confused, your self-torturing reflections, and the emotions accompanying them, whirl ’round and ’round. And although you crave some sort of closure to the stormy commotion inside your brain, no “truce” seems practical. For there’s an almost perfect balance—or more accurately, tension—between the positives and negatives of each alternative you’re anguishing over.” – Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-the-self/201504/what-causes-you-inner-turmoil

Tags 3d, 3danimation, animation, Autodesk, Autodesk Maya, camera, cylinder, Dreams, learning, lindi, MASH, node, perspectivs, primitive, Spline, student, Surreal

2017 3D Modeling Animation_2017

Exploding Rose

Photo by Miguel u00c1. Padriu00f1u00e1n on Pexels.com

I created my own version of GreyscaleGorilla’s tutorial on a “Shattering Rose” in Cinema 4D. Instead of using their plugins, I used the push apart effector to create the “exploding” part of the rose.