Anthony Rivera - CG Artist

Motion Capture Cleanup Tutorial – Part 1

djcloud23 — Tue, 31 May 2011 03:08:10 +0000

Here is a tutorial I made on how to cleanup motion capture data and retarget it to your character. Make sure you watch this in HD so you can the full effect of the tutorial. If it won’t let you full screen it, click HERE and you can watch it on Vimeo. I hope you enjoy and maybe learn something. Part II will continue with this shot and get it to a “render ready” status. Stay tuned.

G-XIII Short Film

djcloud23 — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:10:00 +0000

G-XIII is an animated short, I am currently working on with a few passionate individuals in our free time. I will keep a Production Blog at www.G-XIII.com updated with comprehensive “behind the scenes” documentation. Expected release date is Spring 2011.

FYE – Work In Progress

djcloud23 — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:10:03 +0000

FYE (For Your Entertainment) is a short film currently in production. I am the Effects TD for the project and am in charge of simulating cloth and other dynamic attributes for the short film. I will keep updating this post with the latest simulations and renders from the short. For more information go to www.DontLoseYourHead.net

Demo Reel 2009

djcloud23 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:01:17 +0000

This is my demo reel for 2009. It contains a compilation of my latest work in a 1 minute video. Thanks for looking and enjoy.

Shot 1: Intro

The introduction shot was modeled in polygons and includes paint effects as well as Maya Fluid fire. It was rendered in mentalRay.

Shot 2: Rogue – Short Film

This shot is an environment I modeled for the short film “Rogue”. It was modeled in polygons and rendered in mentalRay with Final Gather. A subtle volumetric fog was added. It also had simulated water in the fountain. I used RealFlow 4 to simulate the fluid.

Shot 3: Rogue – Short Film

This is another angle of the village environment for Rogue.

Shot 4: Rogue – Short Film

This is the second environment I made for the short film “Rogue”. This was also all modeled in polygons and textured with Photoshop. The fire was simulated using Maya Fluid dynamics. It was rendered in mentalRay with Final Gather and Global Illumination.

Shot 5 & 6: Rogue – Short Film

These two shots show the character models for the animated short. They were modeled in polygons except for their eyes which were modeled in NURBS and were textured in Photoshop. The shirt is simulated using nCloth.

Shot 7: Rogue – Short Film

Here I show my facial rig. I designed the UI to be clean and easy for an animator to pick up and use without having to guess what each control object does. Here I have it linked to blend shapes, but it is completely customizable for any type of facial set up.

Shot 8: Rogue – Short Film

This shows the main character, Darius, being animated. Animation time for this shot is about 4 hours.

Shot 9: Motion Capture

This is some motion capture footage that I personally acted out and cleaned up. It was applied to a very low resolution model of the secondary character in Rogue.

Shot 10: Fluid Simulation

A simple fluid simulation I did in RealFlow4 and rendered in Maya using mentalRay.

Shot 11: Rogue – Short Film

Another fluid simulation created in RealFlow4 and imported into the Rogue environment (fountain) and rendered using mentalRay.

Shot 12: Explosion

This is a mix of all dynamics. It incorporates particles, rigid & soft body dynamics, as well as Maya Fluds.

Rogue – Short Film

djcloud23 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:30:07 +0000

This project is my biggest undertaking yet. It’s a short film about a medieval family ripped apart by a terrible war. I have completed as much as I can. I have documented every step of the way and have included everything here. I have moved on to bigger and better things.

PreProduction:

This is an “Paper Cutout” animatic of the project. I used this to work out timing issues and get a sense of how long the project was going to be.

Production:

This is a 3D animatic of the short. At this point the animation is not final, and the cloth hasn’t been simulated.

Fluid Simulations

djcloud23 — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:18:57 +0000

These are just a few tests I did to learn RealFlow and caustics in Maya.

Colossal Fossils

djcloud23 — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:52:55 +0000

This is a project that I worked on for my “Terrains and Fractals” class at IADT. It’s a short “movie preview” that was made in Mojo World and Maya 7. It’s based around the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Control Z (Ctrl-Z) Button Infomercial

djcloud23 — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:26:21 +0000

Have you ever done something you wish you could take back? Well now you can!! The Ctrl-Z button will undo any past mishap!

Enjoy this infomercial parody.

Kitchen

djcloud23 — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:46:22 +0000

This is a kitchen that I modeled for my 3D modeling I class at IADT. It was posted on a presentation board and displayed at the IADT Animation Floor. Here are the stills that were on that board.

Total Render Time: 3 Minutes

Rendered with Global Illumination and Final Gather

Piano

djcloud23 — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:05:21 +0000

This is a model of a Baby Grand Piano modeled in NURBS and Polugons. It was modeled in Maya 6.5 and rendered with Final Gather in MentalRay for Maya.

Total Render Time: 2 Minutes