Final Project

Over the course of several weeks I came up with the idea for this project, modeled all the objects, lit the scenes, rigged the mechanical parts, textured and animated the objects and finally rendered the it with a combination of mental ray and Maya Vector.

DA300 Final Animation Project from jeff wincek on Vimeo.

 Click through for HD, it's rendered in 720p with ray tracing so it's worth the buffer times. 

 I recommend watching the video before reading further as there will be slight spoilers ahead. 

I wanted to combine my strengths in highly detailed hard bodied modeling with an exploration into animating characters more fluidly. I purposefully left the textures fairly simple to highlight the complexities of the models.