Sunday, August 27, 2017

Primitives

Primitives


For this project I had to use basic polygons provided by Maya to create my environment. The goal of this project is to help us become comfortable using Maya and to teach us that just by using simple shapes you could create a environment with a story to it.

I decided to create a graveyard because it was the most simplest approach and I had more room to add anything that I wanted into the graveyard. I was stuck between making it a graveyard with skeletons or a graveyard which is peaceful. I decided to go with the second option because I felt it described the mood that I was feeling the day I created this. I also love the symmetry of the graveyards and how it looks organized. In the end, I decided to add two fences to the scene because it looked too open for a close up shot.


I chose this camera angle as my final one because it makes the viewer feel as if they were in the graveyard themselves. In this angle you get a good view of the flowers, the tombstones, and the birds on the tree. The birds is especially the first thing that I wanted the viewers to see which is why I put it at a angle where it follows the rule of thirds.

When it came to rendering I had a lot of problems with the lighting. There was at times when I convert it to JPEG and it looked a bit darker than it was intended. I fixed this issue by putting a lot more lighting than needed be and it fixed the problem. I also had trouble moving items at first but then realized that I could just simply group them and move them easily on the intended spot I wanted them on.