Most students from the fall 2008 Maya class did something with an animated, talented ball for their Fall 2008 final projects.
You are welcome to steal ideas from the 3D Buzz videos!
Have you looked at the projects from the fall of 2008 Maya class? All that most of them did was have a curtain that opened up and showed some sort of very simple animation involving a talented animated ball. PLEASE: Look at the projects from FALL of 1968 class for ideas. The STORY - The talented ball comes out from behind the curtains and jumps over a short wall barrier or a hurdle of some sort and then goes behind the curtains again, after which they close. 1. The curtains are closed. 2. The curtains open up, and they have a sway effect when they reach the fully opened state as taught by the 3DBuzz tutorials and demonstrated in class. 3. A ball is observed on the stage, and now it rolls out from behind the curtains to the front of the stage. A barrier or hurdle of some sort comes out on the stage either right before or right after the ball rolls out. 4. The ball squashes and stretches twice or perhaps three times in Anticipation of jumping over the "wall" hurdle. 5. The ball jumps over the "wall" and lands on the other side. 6. The ball rolls back behind the curtain. 7. The wall barrier the ball jumped over moves back behind the curtain. 8. The curtains close.
Story board - Sequence of drawings with descriptions - note the 12 descriptions on the 1st image above (numbered in RED). - Story-based description
Fundamentals Proj 1-1 Overview of the Talented Ball 06:13 Storyboards 09:20
April 2009 note: emailStory.txt...