Secret Squirrel Mission

Mission : to build animatics of interesting type.
Completion: Very soon.


I have changed what my scene is going to be about. And sorry some people might have thought last night in the chat area they found out. nup, it all changed and I am not telling.

Want more news? Well bad luck cause I am not going to tell you. It’s a secret.

Captain we have a problem!

I love nodes. I say this because at last I have learnt how to use them without being told.

In the alien model that I have just finished I wanted the eyes to focus. Being new to all of this I had no clue. Then while watching a video on rigging (which was completely off topic on rigging the eye focus) it hit me.

It was a simple link up. First I made a new attribute in the Alien control called eye focus. Basicly I linked (using connection editor) it up to the ramp that controled the eye. When I first did this it was very hard to control so I made a few changes and this time using nodes. I grabbed a set range node and gave myself a buffer for easier control.

What a great feeling. Working out how to do something with things that just sounded scarey for a long time. We were first introducted to nodes with a few hours of video. For that we had to complete an assignment just using nodes. I completed this but I still felt that I was unsure what I was doing. Next, we built the earth and here we used more nodes. Slowly I was starting to understand them. Now after rigging this very simple eye focus I love playing with them. Great, great feeling.

I am off to complete some animatics today. This is where you make a little video of what your scene should look like using stand in objects. It is a quick dirty way of testing the scene.

That's all folks.