APR Animation

This month I we were tasked with animating either a pitcher or batter for a small baseball short. We grouped into teams of two for the project. I was assisted by Tasha Carlson who is not an animator but still delivered an excellent final result. I was the animator for the pitcher. The rig was not the greatest but overall it sufficed for what was needed. I ended up pouring about 40 to 46 hours total into the animation and am pretty satisfied with the result. There are a couple things now that I keep watching the video back over and over again that I would probably tweak. It was a fun project regardless.

Old Stuff...

This was the first project I did for a Compositing class. All assets were pre-modeled which left the lighting, rendering and compositing up to me. The footage also had to be tracked before anything could be done. I tracked the scene and person in Syntheyes, then lit and prepared the scene in Maya. After rendering out several passes I comped the entire thing in Nuke. It was a very fun project to do and I will most definitely be trying something like this in the future.