StoryBoards Round Two & Maya

Edit speech lipsync is:"Is it safe?" "Yes its safe, its very safe, its so safe you woul'dnt believe it".

Ok so hopefully these storyboards will explain better my idea and will be ok for use in a animatic which is the next step Hurrah.

 2^nd Update:

I followed my floor plan by importing the layout into Maya which was pretty cool. However I don’t know how but apparently I extruded it all wrong. Bit disheartening to say the least but hey ho it’s how it goes. After trying again I then tried to extrude the walls of the trench upwards, I thought I’d done a good job until I asked the tech if it was ok and the response wasn’t very good. Again I’d managed to do it all wrong; the vertices weren’t joined so the whole model was unattached to itself. Meaning I could either go around and merge every vertex to the corresponding corner or edge (some needed the polygon splitting so it could attach itself). Or I would have to remodel the entire thing again, to say that I have just started using Maya I’m very fast becoming fed up of it. I guess I will try and remodel the entire thing again; the tech advised that the other work was unable to be saved unless I wanted to spend a lot of time merging vertexes. 

StoryBoards Round One & Maya

Some wonderfully messy first storyboards for my animation idea, ideally in the end it will last 30 seconds and have lipsynch and character acting in it.....we hope ;).

The line for my lipsync I'll hopefully be using is 01.24-01.30 . "Is it safe?"-"Yes its safe, its very safe, its so safe you wouldnt believe it"

Just thought i'd write it down for if you couldnt be botherd to watch the video.
The lipsync will happen at panel 8, and the "it" thats questioned to be safe will be the grenade, but maybe you guessed that...I hope you did.

Maya work:

Polygon Modelling in Maya:

First time modelling in Maya found it quite difficult. I have tried to stick to the basics of extruding planes but I’m not sure if it’s worked too well. Once or twice things seem to have one wrong which I can’t seem to fix? However when I have closed Maya and re-opened it seems to work the way I want it too. Not really sure why it’s behaving like this so I’ll ask for help when I can get it.

It’s quite an interesting programme if not completely daunting when you open it, a lot of menus and options to use. For this I’ll be trying to stick to my floor plan which I uploaded earlier when I first sketched my concepts down. Hopefully it won’t be too difficult to follow.

Trench Research Doodles

Ok so just research sketches and doodles for my chosen enviroment- the incredible depressing WW1 Trench.