Study Task 4 - Maya 4: Backgrounds

This week we were using Maya to model out our Beano backgrounds as a means of previsualisation to help with the backgrounds and storyboarding. I ultimately made a model of the inside of the electronics store for one of my scenes, and also a tree which took a few attempts because Maya kept crashing.

This was fun to make despite the number of attempts it took

This acted as a reference to one of my 3D-ish scenes

What worked well:

• Rotating my tree trunk cylinder before branching it out to add to that tree texture
• The store model became a good reference for one of my scenes

What could be improved:

• Changing the shape of the tree foliage so it doesn't look so much a like a Savannah tree
• Perhaps adding colour to my store scene