29/07/15 - Scenery test

Messing around with Maya for the first half of the lesson today, I decided to see if I could create an ice crystal with a figure inside it.  Sculpting the crystal was easy enough with a cylinder primitive and adding a figure was just a simple matter of putting a transparent image on a 2D plane.  The two combined better than I expected them to, and I was able to create a small, illuminated diamond as a result!

You can see the actual video here on my tumblr, blogger won't upload it for some reason.

I intend to spend the rest of the afternoon working on an animatic, so hopefully that will be placed up here later on.