Project type:
Animation project in Maya.
Project description:
Create a 30-60 sec animation.
Have narrative element.
The character should interact with either the environment, one or more props / weapons / tools, or another character.
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GM Vidit (person on the left) is playing an intense game against GM Hikaru Nakamura (person on the right). Then suddenly GM Vidit sacrifice... his KING.
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Explanation: In chess, two kings are not supposed to be next to each other. However, it is still physically possible. GM Vidit received penalty because of that, but this unexpected move made GM Hikaru surprised and chess players turned this into a meme.
Date:
Sep 15 - Oct 15 2024.
Role:
3D Animator, Storyboard.
Project highlight:
Reference:
Original chess match: Vidit vs Hikaru Nakamura | Tata Steel India Blitz 2019
Whenever I struggle with parenting constraints to make the player move the chess pieces, I went back to this video to ensure the best way to make constraints, which is making a locator child of the hand, then parent constraint it with the parent group of a chess piece.
Storyboard:
Challenges:
I struggled quite a bit because the constraints didn't always work as I wanted. For example, when I constraint a King to the table, then to the hand for the chess piece to move, then back to the table to stop it from moving, then constraint another piece to the hand, it sometimes confused the software. To fix that, I added multiple locator to the hand so 1 locator can focus on 1 chess piece.