Introduction:
The movie “At First Sight” is a production for the course CS838-1 (3D animation) of UW-Madison computer science department.
This movie presented a short story between Mr. Happy and his Worm. The story line will be described later.
Character description:
There are two characters included in this movie:
Character 1: Miss Worm (By Group 1)
Character 2: Mr. Happy (By Group 2)
Producers:
Group1:Chunmei Lu; Fengying Sun;
Group2: Heng Xiao; Hongyu Sun;
Storyline:
Scene 1: Mr. Happy plays on the grassland and Miss Worm seems going to the other side of the road.
Scene 2: Mr. Happy finds Miss worm and starts to chase her.
Scene 3: Miss Worm found someone is chasing her and starts to speed up.
Scene 4: Mr. Happy is getting closer to his “friend” and jumping around her to observe her (Mr. Happy is changing his shape by the mean time).
Scene 5: Miss Worm gets angry and stopped. Mr. Happy stopped too.
Scene 6: Miss Worm is growing to very huge size and Mr. Happy is scared and escapes.
Screen captures:
Techniques:
There are several techniques used in this project, please see Character description for details.
Script:
People of this group are trying to use Maya Plug-ins and MEL to implement sophisticated scenes. There are several plug-in functions in this project:
1.Worm plug-in: This plug-in is used to implement the motion of Miss Worm (implemented by group 1).
2.Moving plug-in: This plug-in is used to implement the motion of Mr. Happy and it included several different motions (implemented by group 2).
3.Noise plug-in: This plug-in is integrated with moving plug-in in same mll file and it is used to implement the random motion of the eyes of Mr. Happy and the shape changing of Mr. Happy.
4.MEL file: this is the script file used to
Movie:
The movie is presented as QuickTime format and it takes 90 seconds (1.5 Minutes).
Scene file: final.mb