Liyu C + Doing

Rigged the ice skating shoes to the girl character

2010-04-23T19:49:00.000-07:00

It took me one day to think how to combine the shoes to the girl. Because the girl's rigging was done, I didn't want to remove the rigging and do a totally new rigging.

As known to all, ice skating shoes are different with normal shoes. The bottom of ice skating shoes doesn't transform because there is a blade under the bottom. So I considered to make the shoes parent constrain to the ankle joint. It worked. But when the legs moved, the legs would touch the upper shoe body and make the surface of shoes transform. I used BlendShape to do the transform. It worked well. Finally the rigging was done.

My girl character is ready to skate. :)

Shiny Shiny (2009)

2010-04-20T23:10:00.000-07:00

Modeled a pair of ice skating shoes

2010-04-20T19:49:00.000-07:00

The most difficult part of modeling shoes was modeling the shoelaces. But, whatever, I did it. ha...

moving

2009-08-06T07:39:00.000-07:00

I created my personal website http://www.caoliyu.com/
And moved the blog to http://caoliyu.com/blog/

Let's comedy!

2009-05-14T21:24:00.001-07:00

I was watching the comedic show performed by Zhou Libo just now, making me LOL many many times. I was depressed these days because my mom is seriously sick. I was trying to be happy. However, nothing could make me laugh to my heart.

Having watched Zhou Lobo's comedic show, I felt so well.

The story of my Master Project seems too depressed. I hoped that the animation could give a hand to those people who were suffering from depression. Why did I decide to say a depressed story? How can a depressed story help a depressed person? I questioned myself.

I think I should make audiences be happy. Yes. The world needs comedies.

OK! My story will be changed. It will make you smile. Oh no! Not just smile, laugh please. hehe....

The solution to the "bump shade" error

2009-05-14T19:06:00.000-07:00

An error happened when I used Mental Ray’s misss_fast_skin_maya.
I couldn't open bump shade values.

The problem happened on both PC and Mac. The same error:

// Error: Cannot find procedure "AEmisssSimpleMayaBumpReplace"

Finally, I found the solution on CG Society forums. So share the solution on my blog.

Find the mel file: AEmisss_fast_skin_mayaTemplate.mel
Open it by Texteditor.
Find line 149.
And replace the code of line 149 with:

editorTemplate -callCustom "AEmisssSkinMayaBumpNew" "AEmisssSkinMayaBumpReplace" "normalCamera";

Then save the mel file.

I also tried another method mentioned on CG Society forums.
Create a new mel file and name it as AEmisssSimpleMayaBumpReplace.mel
Enter the code:

global proc AEmisssSimpleMayaBumpReplace(string $attr) {
attrNavigationControlGrp -edit
-attribute $attr
bumpControl;
}

And then place the new mel file in scripts folder. But it didn't work for me.

Schedule

2009-04-15T20:44:00.001-07:00

I do need to set the schedule for my project.

May: Animating done
June: Texturing and rendering
July: Post-production

A new character

2009-04-15T20:00:00.000-07:00

I added a new character into my story. I got the inspiration from the Japanese anime -- Ikkyū-san(聪明的一休). In the Ikkyū-san, there's a teru teru bozu (晴天娃娃) that is hung over out of the window by a string. Teru teru bozu is a little hand-made doll that is supposed to have the power to bring good weather and stop a rainy day.

I felt the girl character looked so lonely in my animation movie and did need a friend. So the teru teru bozu came to my mind. The cute doll will help the girl be happy. Also, my movie will have more fun with this little guy. I guess I will call it Shiny.

About this project

2009-02-22T08:05:00.000-08:00

It is about a girl. A busy, tired and depressed girl. The story depicts how this girl desires to find a relaxed place and becomes happy.

The first blog

2009-01-10T12:28:00.000-08:00

It is my first blog here. I'm trying to trace my master project's process in the future. Please wait for me. I will update this blog when I make headway with my project.