What I Have Done...
Firstly, I was assigned to draw the characters for my group's video. Since the topic that we have decided to do is a pirate's theme, therefore, I was told to draw a pirate, ship, octopus, canon with a canon ball and another animal to represent the Firewall. Once I have done all that, I was then assigned to model the octopus on maya. It was easy to model the head. However, when it comes to the tentacles, it was a bit difficult because firstly, I had to get it into a tentacle shape and secondly, I was required to animate it.
Firstly, I was assigned to draw the characters for my group's video. Since the topic that we have decided to do is a pirate's theme, therefore, I was told to draw a pirate, ship, octopus, canon with a canon ball and another animal to represent the Firewall. Once I have done all that, I was then assigned to model the octopus on maya. It was easy to model the head. However, when it comes to the tentacles, it was a bit difficult because firstly, I had to get it into a tentacle shape and secondly, I was required to animate it.
Thankfully, I found a video tutorial whereby the person showed how to model the tentacle and then animate it. I have to say that it was quite difficult to follow at the beginning. I actually did it quite a number of times until I finally got it right.
Also, I have to admit that I faced quite a number of problems while trying to import the octopus into the real life footage. There were actually 2 major problems. One, when I opened the real life footage then I tried importing the octopus, there was always an error. I repeated the steps once again and then I got it right. I did not know exactly what my mistake was but I believe that I missed out a step. At the end of it, I managed to import the octopus inside the real life footage successfully. However, there was another problem. Before animating, I did play the animation and ok, the tentacles were moving but, when I tried to rotate it, I selected everything, rotate it and the tentacles became out of shape. Fadilla also tried helping me but she encountered the same problem. So end up, I decided to give it another shot, and YES! I managed to rotate it successfully without getting distorted tentacles shapes. Haha. I selected everything but then I de-selected the 'joints' (I think that's what it's called) if I'm not wrong. So finally, I managed to animate it successfully! Yay!
Honestly, I am proud of the outcome. It was a job well done because I'm really not good at modelling actually but it ended up looking great!
Above will be the final video that I have rendered.
Thank you!
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