Point Animation

After the family left I found an hour or so to play with Maya, and found out it is actually possible to animate every single point on a Mesh individually. I tried it on a polygonal sphere, messed a bit with the shader and rendered it using Mental Ray. No Bones, deformers or blend shapes!

Cosmo Bones

Cosmo bones are up.

I got help from this site too. I wonder if anyone will find this helpful. :)
http://web.alfredstate.edu/ciat/tutorials/SkeletonSetup.htm

Professor, what did we say we'd use to connect the arm and leg joints to the spine?

How two independent film makers created an animated short

looks interesting

Real Time nVidea Head

Next to being pretty amazing, it also explains how rendered light maps are used to get the Sub Surface Scattering!

kichen scene fof final composition

This is an idea of my funal composition for ARIL360, not completed yet.

Jack flying test

suggestions folks, this is test for the fabric only, my panda will not be flying in my final animation, but I will use the nCloth.

Ringling College Portfolio

Please go and check out the Computer Animation portfolio! The animation, "Dim Sum," had me actually laughing out loud!

I'm definitely going to apply here. I've heard Ringling's program has you work in teams to find and specialize your place in the pipeline. Great prep for a large-studio workplace, but not so good for expression of individual vision. Either way, it seems like a school worth looking into.