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  Nathan Haskins 9:22 pm on January 31, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Messing around with trying to get a quick red bloodcell animation in Maya, here’s a couple of tests.

  I saw a demo on Youtube of a speed animation by Thomas Brown using Cinema 4d.. its right below:

  It got me to thinking that I might be able to figure out the work flow for Maya. I have a bit of it down, however, I still have not found a great way to bite the way he duplicates his geometry between 1:15 – 1:33… I’m using a MEL script to key frame bake my geometry in as a substitute.
  I’ll post a vid of the work flow Im using tomorrow, with some explanation as to the techniques used to make it happen. Once I have a decent flow for construction going, I’ll turn my attention to shaders.

   

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  Nathan Haskins 9:01 pm on January 31, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  bloodflow research 

  
  

  scripts……

  workflow
  —————-
  -create curve
  -create curveflow
  -create blood obj
  -instance blood
  -add Keller’s rotateMe codes for blood particle
  -create 1 piece of shell
  -create circle
  -bake the shell around the circle
  -scale the shell-circle
  -duplicate the shell to proper size
  -group shells
  -attach to curve as motion path
  -bake the shell to the curve
  -attach camera to curve
  -texture shell and blood cell onj

  bakeanimation
  —————
  global proc bakeAnimation(int $step, int $startFrame, int $endFrame) {

  if($step < 1) { error("bakeAnimation : the step argument must be at least higher than 1.n"); }

  string $selection[] = `ls -sl`;

  for($object in $selection) {

  for($n = $startFrame; $n <= $endFrame; $n+=$step) {

  currentTime -e $n;
  duplicate $object;
  }

  print($object + ” animation baked.n”);
  }
  }

  //call by using bakeAnimation(#,#,#)
  //bakeAnimation(frame interval, being on frame, last frame
  —————–