by Felipe Amaya | Jul 19, 2021 | SCAD, Thesis, VFX
Getting the internal mechanics of this system to work requires a lot of back and forth through testing, and troubleshooting. The system might behave correctly in a particular scenario, but fail when the conditions are changed. During the last few days, I’ve been...
by Felipe Amaya | Jul 15, 2021 | SCAD, Thesis, Uncategorized, VFX
The creature system includes a habitat on which they can be placed. In the original proposal, this habitat was pitched as Arena. A name that will continue to be used throughout this development. This system will be packaged in its own HDA. It will then be possible to...
by Felipe Amaya | May 22, 2021 | SCAD, Thesis, Uncategorized, VFX
Now that the motion is possible and can be controlled as a point traveling on a predetermined path on the terrain, the logical next stage was to work on the stepping motion. To achieve this, it was necessary to have the control point of the tips/feet copied onto the...
by Felipe Amaya | May 10, 2021 | SCAD, Thesis, VFX
With the creature designs and HDAs at a good stage of development, I was able to move on to implementing the motion. For this, I started with a few tests based on something I learned from Matt Estela’s take on Sasa Budimir’s Hair Walker. But sought to...
by Felipe Amaya | May 3, 2021 | SCAD, Thesis, VFX
After having the prey design revamped and sort of locked, I stress tested the system and corrected many issues that came up when trying to assemble it into an HDA. Additionally, I updated the look a bit to give the creature some directionality. Once it was packaged...
by Felipe Amaya | Apr 25, 2021 | SCAD, Thesis, VFX
The prey creature design has proven to be less straightforward than the one of the hunters. I guess I had a clearer design idea in mind for them than for these. I have been through a meandering path of exploration and hessitation with this creature type. On Paper...
