Story Book

We are starting a new project in animation class. We are taking a children's cardboard book and animating the story from the book at the end of the project the books and animations will be donated to children's mercy hospital so that they can enjoy the stories. The book I have decided to do is
"The Best Mouse Cookie" by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond. So far I have the voice recordings done for the book. I also have decided to try and create the animation in 3d so I have modeled the mouse, The kitchen, and the outside of the house.

This is the outside of mouses house.

This is what the kitchen looks like so far. 

This is what mouse looks like in Mudbox with color and more polygons.

This is mouse with his skeleton and eyes ready to be animated and textured. 

This is what the skeleton for mouse looks like I am using Humanik within Maya.

(I have more on Humanik on my other post)

The next steps is to get the kitchen textured and ready for animation. Then key framing the animation of mouse outside the house, and in the kitchen. The only other big thing that I will have to start will be modeling all the small details like the things mouse will be cooking with for example: eggs, pans, etc...

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I have started texturing the kitchen and modeling the different objects that mouse will be using to make cookies. I also have added mouse into the scene.

Mouse In the Kitchen