Bugsly

This project's goal was to have a scene that was animated. I made a fully fleshed out forest scene with a nice hollowed log back-drop in reference to my first model. I even imported in my old tree models for the surrounding spruce forest!

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The star of the show is the bug, who I've taken to calling "Bugsly". His debut role was to sit pretty on a small stone sage, kick his little feet, and occasionally look around. 

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Bugsly turned out to be a surprisingly complex character to animate, but I managed to do so fairly well considering my lack of prior experience. Given that I wanted the scene to take place at night, the surrounding scene included some bioluminescent objects - most of which are intended to be fungus. 

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The program we used to model and render everything was Autodesk's Maya. That program has an ocean of options and choices, much of which I have gotten more familiar with. At the time I didn't have any way to edit the video that was rendered and output, so the resulting animation is taken straight from the program.