2020 Reel

Monmouth University Animation Reel 2020 from Monmouth University Animation on Vimeo.

AR 386 Hands On Exercises

I put these, unlisted, up on YouTybe for the ArtNow Library Exhibit.

A Strange Story

As my intro class students will soon be creating flipbooks, I finally scanned in one I created when I was a kid, probably early in high school.

Fall Loop Animations

Here is the first of the compilations I will be posting:

Maya / Mental Ray not batch rendering blendShapes

There seems to be a bug in the currently installed version of Maya 2015 (SP2) that causes Mental Ray to ignore blendShapes when batch rendering (or even mess them up?). But there is a workaround!

• Select the object that has blendshape animation on it
• From the animation menu, choose

  Geometry Cache → Create New Cache

• The default settings should work is you have your entire animation visible on your timeline, if you only use blendShapes for a small part of your animation you may explore the options
• Repeat for each mesh with blendShapes

How does this fix things? It creates files in your project directory (yes, you do need to set your project!) with the correct vertex (=point) positions of the deformed mesh. These vertex positions are then directly used for rendering, ignoring all deformers.

Poly Modeling Part 1

I finished cleaning up the first part of the demo video I recorded in the Principles of 3D Animation class, and posted it to YouTube.