AHMED MOHSEN » Maya

Destroying The Statue

Ahmed Mohsen — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:59:52 +0000

First i did Matte Painting then i made dummy object as statue in maya, Then i created camera map projection for the statue, Then i baked these maps on it then i created particles emitting from the statue using the same baked map, Then i used forces to animate it, Finally the camera animation & the compositing were done using After Effects.

ncloth Test plus life action footage compose

Ahmed Mohsen — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:42:51 +0000

ncloth test plus life action footage compose using Autodesk Maya & Adobe After Effects

My Big Boy Train Modeling

Ahmed Mohsen — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:38:30 +0000

TR101 Mirror Joints Troubleshooting

Ahmed Mohsen — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:10:59 +0000

If you have a full joints skeleton in Maya then you deleted the left side of the am joints – for example – now you want to mirror the right side to the left side, if you do it with the traditional way, Maya will simply crash down.
So How can you do it ?? simple watch my video

if you have any questions, problems, feedback Please

Just playing around: Maria Wine

Ahmed Mohsen — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:53:50 +0000

Maria is a wine bottle done in 1 hour using Maya & Photoshop.

How To Animate Basic Tank Trend Cycle

Ahmed Mohsen — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:01:45 +0000

- Create a simple object as trend unit like this one.

- Adjust the pivot point and put it where it should rotate.

- Duplicate it 40 Times

- Make Joints over the geometry

- Make each joint parent to its geo unit

- Create a spline like this one

- Go to Animation Menu > Skeleton > IK Spline Handle Tool (Hit The Option Box)

- Deselect “Auto Create Curve” option

- Select the first joint then the last joint then the curve

- Adjust the curve control point to make them fit to your geometry

- Select the IK Handle then animate the Offset Attributes

Thats it . . . Hope you enjoy it . . . your comments and question are welcome

What is Camera Mapping ?

Ahmed Mohsen — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:55:22 +0000

Camera Mapping is a technique used for matte paintings by turning a flat 2D photograph into a 3D animation using 3D Application like Maya, this technique is also called “Camera Projection”.

Shaded Projection

How It Works
Grap the 2d image to a 3D Application then create simple 3d geometries as the objects in the 2D image and try to match the position and the scale of the objects then use the camera to project the material (the 2d image) to the greometries they enjoy playing with the camera

Geometry Wires

Advantages and Disadvantages
The best advantage of this technique is to animate and walk through a 2d image but the woth disadvantage is that you don’t have much space to move the camera, for example if have an image of a building and the sky is behind it, if you moved alot in the sence a gap will appeare behind the building becouse there can’t be nothing behind the building in the 2d image, so you don’t have much of space to animate the camera to avoid the gaps.

Original 2D Image