Rhia Crouch's Blog

The Cell Cycle Re-Done from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

For my animation, I tried to create an animation that would explain the cell cycle in such a way that it would be easy of the viewer to understand the basic information and not have to go through unnecessary text to find what they are looking for. I tried to push myself a bit more with this project as it was the last one of the year and I used all of the feedback that I was given form my other projects to help me not make the same mistake again or to think again about something when I was planning everything out. This meant focusing on my influence maps more, working on what the overall feel to the world would be and thinking about the audio and how it would add to the animation. I have found that I can model in Maya a bit better and finding little tricks to help me create what I needed to make my animation. Animating everything was a bit of a struggle as I felt I was making everything move too slow or too quick but I quickly got round this by moving the key frames and turning off ...

Fantastic Voyage - Art Of by Rhia Crouch on Scribd

Fantastic Voyage - The Cell Cycle from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

Test Render from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo . It's all coming together.

Fantastic Voyage - Per-viz from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo . I will go back and clean up the animation for the final renders.

Blend Shape Animation 2 from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

Green Blue Testing out the X-Ray effect for the interface. I feel that I've got the glow just right but can't pick between the green or blue. Any feed back is welcomed.

I chose to use a blimm for the texture so that it gives a nice shine. Any feedback is welcome.

With basic door model

Blend Shape Animation from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo . To get round opening the doors for my checkpoints I have tried out using blend shapes. I will go back and make sure that the doors don't stick out of the checkpoint sides once I am happy with it.

I've had to colour this one in a little so that I could work out some of the different parts when they over lap one another.

Not 100% happy with this model as I feel that it still looks a bit blocky. I'm also unsure if I should rig it because of the way it moves.