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| Toothy |
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| Beginning Toothy: using a NURBS sphere for his body and legs and a revolved curve for his arms. The curve is highlighted in green. |
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| Toothy with his two arms - copied and pasted NURBS curves adjusted to fit into his body |
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| Toothy in his near complete form but without his tooth. Color: lambert; R: 0.284, G: 0.155, B: 0.400 |
Making Toothy was much harder than I had anticipated and took a total of about 16 hours, mostly because I kept confusing myself, or the program would crash before I had a chance to save the newest additions and changes. The time may have also taken longer because I attempted to make him on my own. When it came to building and adding his skeleton, I finally consulted Learning Maya 6's lesson on building Salty.
I began by sculpting his body from a NURBS sphere, adding sections to give it more dimension. When I was satisfied with his body and legs, I used a revolved curve to create his arms. The curve gave me a better shape and more freedom than if I had used a primitive. After deleting the history and grouping his body parts together, I had my Toothy.
Creating Toothy's skeleton
I could not figure out how to give Toothy a mouth, and decided to leave it out as he never really says anything or expresses himself with it during the story. Toothy's tooth was made from a NURBS primitive cone that had been shaped and added to his model.
Toothy's skeleton has 16 joints and is rooted in the middle.
As of now, Toothy's eyes are rooted to his skeleton, and so moving him and all his components anywhere else but the origin is impossible. Despite that, the following video has been made with a few of his actions:
Using three spotlights, a camera with aim on a motion path. In order to attach the camera, I had to un-check the "follow" in the attach motion path options.
