Project 5: Rube Goldberg

when the other shoe drops, the parrots party

i love party parrots

greatest

slackmoji

ever

Storyboard

My original plan for this animation was to have a ball fall out of a coffee cup, roll of a ledge, and press a button. The button would lower a gate so that a log could roll and set off the chain reaction for dominoes to fall down and reveal a ~fun~ image. I found some models for coffee cups and bowls online, but I couldn't get them to work quite right so I had to make some adjustments and I ended up using a shoe instead.

Objects

shoe

model from cgtrader

8 ball

model from cgtrader

button

I made this

party parrot tiles

I made this by projecting the image onto a MASH grid

log

I clearly made this, very creative I know - full honesty i needed a cylindrical object to set off the tile collision and this was all i g o t

Animation

I was watching some tutorials on dynamics which lead me to making the domino grid which I thought was super cool. To make the domino grid I used a MASH network and set it to a grid formation and gave it dynamic node. The thing is, MASH dynamics use a bullet solver, so when I tried to apply gravity to the other objects, the MASH dynamics stopped working as there are now 2 conflicting gravity fields. So, I ended up using the Bullet engine. By making the objects bullet rigid bodies, I could make them static or dynamic and apply gravity and friction to them.

Maya crashed 4 separate times while I was animating the camera movement which was freaking me out (and my computer was making some concerning noises), so I ended up just playblasting the animation.

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