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This is part of a rework that I am doing of my pre-viz only this time around I am doing it in time with my poem. I've gotten this far, about halfway through the verses, it's just the next scene seems to be giving me some trouble becuase of the number of objects that are moving around and timing them together. Minor Per-viz wip 1 from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

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Another part of my characters that I have been redesigning are the upper outfits for the Moon and Sun. The plan is to have part of the outfit look like it was partly painted on to the wood while also giving them a cape or cloak so that their look more royal and can have better silhouette. I also feel that when I get the upper part of the outfit right I'll be able to work on the tail dress so that it matches and at a loater day work on some of the finer details of the design. Another thing that I have throught about is that I could mix and match the designs after I have picked out a design for each of them so that they look like a set. Moon's upper outfit without capes and cloakes Moon's upper outfit with capes and cloakes Moon's upper outfit showing the inner workings of the designs 1 - The first design that I have done is more or less the design that I have been used as the default design that I have been using for the time being. It's not th...

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Making a 2D image 3D in Maya

While working on the Moon's face designs I have also been looking at the Sun's face. I decided that the designs would be a mirror of the Moon's and also to be something to work off of with the hope that it might help me to see the designs being used on a different character and see any problems that might happen when they are moved over. 1 - This was the default design that I was using for my characters. It is a bit basic but has helped me to think about the way that I could add in some face paint that would be round eye as a parallelto the make up used on Moon. 2 - For the second design I throught about adding in suns in to the eyes just like I had done with Moon's designs, the only problem that I have with this is the points on the sun as there have made the Sun look too cute. It has also given Sun a bit of a dead stare that might make them seem unsettling to the viewer. 3 -The design was designed with the idea that it was going to be animated, such as th...