My Dream way.....A journey to Animation

Pantomime Plus Body Mechanics

2012-02-11T02:46:00.001-08:00

Here is my latest shot. I have tried to mix Pantomime Shot with Lifting Heavy Prop. Hope you enjoy it.

Camera Switching Script

2011-11-16T21:32:00.001-08:00

$currentCamera = `lookThru -q`;
string $allCameras[];
$allCameras = `listCameras`;
int $nextCamera;
for($pos=0;$pos{
if($currentCamera == $allCameras[$pos]) $nextCamera = $pos+1;
}
if($nextCamera>=size($allCameras)) $nextCamera = 0;
lookThru $allCameras[$nextCamera];

If we wanted to toggle backwards we would make the following modifications;

$currentCamera = `lookThru -q`;
string $allCameras[];
$allCameras = `listCameras`;
int $prevCamera;
for($pos=0;$pos{
if($currentCamera == $allCameras[$pos]) $prevCamera = $pos-1;
}
if($prevCamera<=0) $prevCamera = size($allCameras)-1;
lookThru $allCameras[$prevCamera];

Mel script for Undo keys and not the frame:
//forward
undoInfo -stateWithoutFlush off;
playButtonStepForward;
undoInfo -stateWithoutFlush on;

//back
undoInfo -stateWithoutFlush off;
playButtonStepBackward;
undoInfo -stateWithoutFlush on;

Showreel

2011-04-24T03:37:00.000-07:00

This time I updated my show reel with Render:

Show Reel from rajesh_11 on Vimeo.

Dance Animation

2011-04-17T08:52:00.000-07:00

Here is my latest Animation on dance. I choose dance because it is very difficult to transform dance in to animation. I want to get checked my capability so I tried it.

and here is a snap view of Render. I did it with the help of my friend Anirudh in Lakshya Digital.

My Shoreel

2011-03-13T09:11:00.000-07:00

Hi there,

Here's my latest Show reel:

I hope you enjoy it.

Mel Script--Hiding Animation Curve in Maya

2011-03-07T01:00:00.000-08:00

We can create a hot key in Maya and dump the script below. It will become very handy to hide and unhide rig controllers.

string $panelName=`getPanel -wf`;

if (`modelEditor -q -nurbsCurves $panelName` == 0){
modelEditor -e -nurbsCurves 1 $panelName;

}
else
{
modelEditor -e -nurbsCurves 0 $panelName;
}

I hope this will help.

Pantomime Shot

2011-02-28T06:19:00.000-08:00

I have updated one of my assignment for Pantomime Shot done at animationmentor.com. I hope you like and enjoy it.

Quetzalcoatlus- A Flying Dinosaur

2011-01-20T23:01:00.000-08:00

I recently animated Quetzalcoatlus for Microsoft Avatar Game here at Lakshaya Digital.

My Animation for TS Jessie

2010-07-15T06:21:00.000-07:00

I am again proud to say that I have done animation for Toy Story 3 Jessie. I am very excited to share with all of you:

Enjoy!

My Hellhound (Dog) animation in Microsoft's Fantasy Pets series

2010-07-13T02:45:00.000-07:00

Hi,
I am glad to share with you my latest animation of Hellhound (Dog) to Microsoft's Xbox 360 game Avatar:

I hope you enjoy all the animations.

2010-05-04T08:01:00.000-07:00

Hi there,

Here is my latest demo reel.

My contribution for Microsoft's Avatar Animations

2010-01-15T05:47:00.000-08:00

Here's the link of animations for Xbox 360 Avatar Pets. I am proud of having my two animations here. One is for Goldfish and other's for white cat.

I hope you all enjoy watching these cool animations.

Mel Script

2009-12-16T00:54:00.000-08:00

Here's script for parenting any prop

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
///////////////////////////Run script : "setparent" /////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

global proc setparent()
{
string $sel[]=`ls -sl`;
string $child=$sel[0];
string $parent=$sel[1];
select -r $child;
string $rt[]=`pickWalk -d up`;
string $root=$rt[0];
if ($root==$child)
{
select -cl ;
$root=`group -em`;
xform -os -piv 0 0 0;
select -cl ;
select -r $child ;
select -add $root;
string $pc[]=`parentConstraint -weight 1`;
delete $pc[0] ;
select -r $child ;
select -add $root ;
parent;
}
select -cl ;
string $group;
if (!objExists("Parent_Group"))
{
$group =`group -em -n Parent_Group`;
}
else { $group="Parent_Group"; }
$pnull=`group -em`;
select -r $pnull;
select -add $group;
parent;
select -cl ;
select -r $parent;
select -add $pnull;
parentConstraint -weight 1;
select -r $pnull;
select -add $root;
$pc=`parentConstraint -mo -weight 1`;
string $list[]=`parentConstraint -q -wal $pc[0]`;
int $n=`size($list)`;
if ($n > 1)
{
setAttr ($pc[0] + "." + $list[$n-2]) 0;
setKeyframe ($pc[0] + "." + $list[$n-2]);
setKeyframe ($pc[0] + "." + $list[$n-1]);
int $ct=`currentTime -query`;
currentTime -edit ($ct-1);
setAttr ($pc[0] + "." + $list[$n-2]) 1;
setAttr ($pc[0] + "." + $list[$n-1]) 0;
setKeyframe ($pc[0] + "." + $list[$n-2]);
setKeyframe ($pc[0] + "." + $list[$n-1]);
currentTime -edit $ct;
}
else
{
setKeyframe ($pc[0] + "." + $list[$n-1]);

int $ct=`currentTime -q`;
currentTime -edit ($ct-1);
setAttr ($pc[0] + "." + $list[$n-1]) 0;
setKeyframe ($pc[0] + "." + $list[$n-1]);

currentTime -edit $ct;

}
select -cl ;
select -r $child;
}

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Here's the script for quicktime framecounter:
{QTtext}
{timescale: 15}
{font: Arial}
{bold}
{justify: center}
{size: 22}
{backColor: 0, 0, 0}
{width: 60}
{height: 30}
{timeStamps: relative}
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Scribbles...

2009-09-15T01:28:00.000-07:00

Line of Action in Poses

2009-08-30T23:37:00.000-07:00

Hi,
Here are some of the poses in which I tried to improve my line of action. Certainly, LOC is the base of good animation.

2009-06-23T04:15:00.000-07:00

Hi there,

I started to do sketching and after so many attempts and with the help of my friends in Lakshya I learn anatomy. Here's my one of sketches.

This has given a new way of looking around me. Now, even a normal standing person attracts me to do sketch.

Happy Walk

2008-06-26T21:44:00.001-07:00

Now, here is my happy walk

Angry Walk

2008-06-26T02:33:00.000-07:00

Hi there,

This is my angry walk (software used Macromedia Flash):

Notes on Film Making

2008-06-24T23:05:00.000-07:00

I am reading a book these days which titled “On Directing Film” by David Mamet. I have read only two lectures but I have learned a lots. The second lecture is a discussion about making a scene in a classroom.

I want to share some of my views I learned from the book:

1. Divide the story in beats/ideas. Work on first idea then second then third and so on.
2. Tell the story in cuts. Divide a scene in cuts. Literary explanation of the scene will kill our film. This is also main work of a director i.e. constructing the shot list from the script.
3. What is a character in Film making?
It is just habitual action, what a person does in pursuit of the super objective, the objective of the scene.
4. The Mechanical Workflow of the film = Mechanism of dream
5. The toughest thing in writing, directing and editing is to give up preconceptions. Always do things the least interesting way and you make a better movie.
6. Don’t rely on acting to tell the story.
7. How do we keep audience attention?
Certainly not by giving more information but by withholding informations—by withholding all informations except the information the absence of which would make the progress of the story incomprehensible.
8. Establishing ---not things but make the audience wornder what’s going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
9. Follow the principle of KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid
10. Don’t let the protagonist tell the story. You tell the story; you direct it. We don’t have to follow the protagonist follow around. We don’t need to have anybody’s “back story”. All we have to create an essay just like a documentary.
11. Follow the protagonist only if that is the best way to tell the story.

I will be glad to get feedback/comments. On the basis of which I will post some more of my views on film making.

Enjoy watching films!

Collection of my free time doodles

2008-05-30T00:37:00.000-07:00

Hi Everybody,

Posting some of my free time doodles I did in free time.

snaps

2008-03-10T02:11:00.000-07:00

Walk

2007-12-23T21:01:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
Submitting my walk from front and perspective view.

Ball Pitch Test

2007-11-29T03:55:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody,
I have just finished my blocking for the ball pitch.

Slight Limp Walk

2007-10-23T20:52:00.000-07:00

I tried to make Slight Limp Walk (Blocking only) from vanilla walk by altering breakdown.

Vanilla Walk (Blocking)

2007-10-21T23:10:00.000-07:00

This is my full body Vanilla Walk blocking only.

Character Animation

2006-12-16T18:16:00.000-08:00

This is my very first blog on the net. I have just successfully completed the first class at AnimationMentor.com. The experience of first class has changed my angle of view to watch the movie, people, environment every thing else.