What If…? S02 E07 - What if… Hela Found the Ten Rings?

BRIeF…

This episode was mostly just me animating ALOT of capes and soldiers. I am forever traumatized animating and hand placing ALOT of crowd rigs on this one shot that Maya would just CONSTANTLY crash.

What worked?

I mentioned before that I would improve on my cape animating, well this episode I had to do some cape animating for shots with odin in them. One of them being a shot of odin about to strike with gungnir. The cape is mostly a combination of controls and a cape sim setup on the rig. This took a bit of fine tuning between the cape sim and the controls but this overall result looks pretty good.

What didn’t worked?

This episode made me hating wanting to do crowds shots. It only took one shot that had over 100 crowd rigs to not just break me but Maya as well. The shot was SO heavy to work with I had maya crashing on me every 10 minutes. And opening that shot takes around 30 minutes to finally open that I had so much tech idle time just before of that one shot.

What to improve?

Overall, nothing really to improve on animation wise. This was a fun episode to work on if you don’t count the amount of crowds I had to do for this episode.