Here you will find a list of videos split into different sections that i will use in the pre- production and production phase to help enhance my skills with the date i watched them and how the video told me and how it helped me on the certain areas i needed.
(Videos not used will have N/A next to them accordingly)
Videos i used to help with my animations:
Creator of the video: Maya Learning Channel (24 August 2016)
Title of the video: Quick Rigging and Skinning a character for beginners
Watched on: 22/03/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me: These videos helped guide me through my first time using maya to rig and these videos where very effective and useful to gain that skill. As these videos talked about the workflow and how to set up a rig including the weight painting and adding fingers to the rig to it can move. This new skill from these videos will help me effectively make concepts and story boards for my walk in pre production and will also help me as i move onto the production area of research.
Creator of the video: MH Tutorials, the Modeling Hub (26 May 2023)
Title of the video: Character rigging for beginners in Maya 2024 ( 4K Video )
Watched on: N/A
How it helped it me/what it told me:N/A
Creator of the video: Mark Masters (8 Jan 2024 )
Title of the video: Animation Masterclass: How to Create Walk Cycles in Maya
Watched on: N/A
How it helped it me/what it told me:N/A
Creator of the video: 3Dcoach (25 march 2021)
Title of the video: Animating in Maya for Beginners (Fun and easy!)
Watched on: N/A
How it helped it me/what it told me: N/A
Creator of the video: CGDive (Blender Rigging Tuts) (12 January 2024)
Title of the video: [Blender 4.0 RIGIFY] #5: Dog/Quadruped Rig
Watched on: 03/04/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me:
This video helped me create a rig for a dog in blender using the add-on rigify. This will help me create my concept animations in pre-production and will help me as i move onto production a the knowledge of how to make a rig for a quadruped animal , this will help speed up the process of making my animations when it comes to production.
Creator of the video: Kuzillon (10 June 2022)
Title of the video: How to animate an animal walk cycle!
Watched on: 05/04/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me: This video told me how to effectively make a walk cycle for a quadrupedal animal.This video helped me to create my concept animations of the dog / hound as it helped with the walk animation , it also gave me insight in how to create walk cycles for other animals with four legs.
Creator of the video: CGDive (Blender Rigging Tuts) (26 Dec 2023 )
Title of the video: [Blender 4.0 RIGIFY] Ch 3: Rigging a Simple Human
Watched on: 21/03/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me:
This video helped me understand how to use the addon rigify in blender and how to apply the rig to the mesh so it would move effectively.
This video was useful as it gave me insight into the workflow of rigging in blender by using the rigify addon and was also a pivotal role in me making the switch to maya as it is used industry more and have a workflow and UI i am more familiar with.
Creator of the video:Thomas Potter ( 23 May 2022 )
Title of the video: Weight Paint your Character in Blender 3.1!
Watched on: 21/03/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me:
This video informed me on the workflow of weight painting and how it affects the models movements. For me this was a relatively easy skill to adopt with it being quite easy to understand the reason from doing it.While this is true this a very time consuming part of rigging and can sometimes be finicky which is a downside to it yest it is also a crucial part of the process of rigging and then animating a character.
Creator of the video:Plainly Simple (29 July 2021)
Title of the video:How To Animate A Run Cycle
Watched on: 23/03/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me:
This video informed me on the basics of a run cycle to refresh my memory to help make my run concept better and look like a run.This skills was not too difficult to execute as i already had knowledge on it due to prior assignments and the research i have conducted in this FMP and was not that hard to implement into my run cycle concept.
Creator of the video:Danil Savchenko (6 Dec 2017 )
Title of the video:Run Cycle Reference
Watched on: 23/03/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me:
This video helped me as i could use this as a point of reference to see how my run should sort of look due to me want to show determination through the run i make.I then took element of this run cycle and put it into mine which efficiently put across the emotion of determination successfully.
Creator of the video:Rudy Solorzano III ( 12 Apr 2020 )
Title of the video:How to attach a Weapon in Maya 2020
Watched on: 23/03/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me:
This video helped me as it told me how to implement a weapon to the character and have it move corresponding to the rig. This was very effective and helpful for me as it not only enhanced my knowledge with MAYA but also allows me to now work on the concepts for the attack , poses and idle animations for the character.
Creator of the video: Mark Masters (2 august 2022)
Title of the video: Maximizing Efficiency: My Maya Viewport Setup for Animation
Watched on: 25/03/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me: This video told me how to set up an effective workspace for animation.This helped me with the process of making animations and making the workspace less cluttered which helped make the workflow more efficient in maya.
Creator of the video: Pierrick Picaut (31 may 2022)
Title of the video: Snake ground matching rig and animation in Blender
Watched on: 24/04/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me:
This video helped/ told me how to create the rig for the snake enemy in the game and gave me an insight in to how i can start animating the snakes slither and help give me ideas on how to create the attack animation. This video also helped enhance my knowledge with the software blender.
Videos i used to help me with modelling:
Creator of the video: Garbaj ( 1 July 2021)
Title of the video: How To Make Low Poly Models (That Don't Suck)
Watched on: N/A
How it helped it me/what it told me: N/A
Creator of the video: ProductionCrate
Title of the video: EVERYTHING you need to know about SUBSTANCE PAINTER!
Watched on: 14/04/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me:
This video was a secondary knowledge enhancement on substance painter as my tutor was the first person to give me knowledge on the software. This video was helpful las it further devolved my understanding of the software and workflows and techniques people use in the software.
Creator of the video: Royal Skies
Title of the video: Substance-Painter: Painting Transparency (FAST!)
Watched on: 14/04/2024
How it helped it me/what it told me:
This is a video i used in production that was a quick video to help me paint the transparency for on my wall with bars model , this video helped expand my knowledge in substance painter. This video was really helpful and helped make the production process more efficient.
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