3d Animation

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_For this portfolio piece I worked on animating the arm of the golem and a camera that is the golem’s eyes. I gave up trying to animate the fingers but I have a full IK rig set up for the arm and fingers (I later found out that using IK for the fingers isn’t an approach that Maya likes very much so we’ll have to rig the hand using another method).

_The trickiest part of the animation was definitely picking up the rock. There are some points where it works quite well and others in which it is kind of obvious that the golem’s hand and the rock are overlapping. But it is good that I now have practice because our final project will require even more of this.

_The rigidity of the motions at some points actually adds to the golem’s robotic way of moving but I’d like to work on the curve editor a bit more to get better ease ins and outs and would have if I had had more time.