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).

At the first sight.mov

Scene file: final.mb