Week 13

Parent the arm ends, pins and joints 

parent all of them  under swivelbase

IK handle too the top and bottom joints

set locator to position

Create annotation arm control

constrain > point arm control and ikhandle1

constrain > orient arm control and joint 4

lock arm control translate X

lock swivelbase rotate X and Z

parent ikhandle1, arm control and swivelbase

adjust the arm control till it's diagonally above the box

move the arm articulated to a compressed pose

open attribute editor and open the limit information and then translate and set the trans Y and Z min and max

right click joint 1 and click collaspe

set arm control translate Y to -9 and Z to 0

select arm control and cargo and parent them

select swivelbase and change translate Y to -100

select platform then cargobox then parent them

select cargo and change platformW1 to 0

select swivelbase and set rotate Y to 0

select cargobox and set armcontrolW0 to 0

create a floor

middle mouse click swivelbase to armbase

create camera and change focal length to 50

set camera angle

go camera setting and click resolution gate

set a keyframe at frame 1

set keyframe at frame 15 when robot is touching box

select armcontrol and cargobox and then constrain > parent and check maintain offset

give the cargobox a keyframe at frame 15

change blend parent1 to 1 so that the machine and the box are stick together at frame 16

pick up the box and set a keyframe at frame 28

set a keyframe at frame 25 before turning swivelbase

at frame 45, set rotate Y to -90 and set a keyframe

select armcontrol put the box down at frame 65 and set a keyframe

select cargobox and set keyframe at frame 65

go to frame 66 and set blend parent to 0

lift up the machine and set a keyframe at frame 79

Video Outcome

Week 11 Lab 2

create a sphere and group it twice using ctrl-g. Change the names as shown in the outliner

select translate ball gp and create deformer>Non linear>Squash

parent the handle and squash ball gp

Lock the rotate and scale attributes for the translate ball gp

Lock the translate and scale for the rotate ball gp

Lock everything for the ball object

Lock everything except the rotate attributes for the handle

go to the squash input and change max expand pos to 0.01

as we are only using the factor value, lock the rest

create a plane and name it Ground. Scale the width and height 50x up

select frame 1 and click translate ball gp. move the ball to the upper left by setting translate X= -12 , Y=5 and set a keyframe

go to frame 100. Change translate X to 12 and move the ball down to th ground

go to frame 12 and set Translate X= -9 and Y= 0.5

go to frame 25 and set Translate X= -6.1 and Y= 3.9

go to frame 37 and set Translate X= -3 and Y= 0.5

go to frame 50 and set Translate X= -2 and Y= 2.8

go to frame 62 and set Translate X= 2.7 and Y= 0.5

go to frame 75 and set Translate X= 6 and Y= 1.6

go to frame 87 and set Translate X= 8.8 and Y= 0.5

go to frame 100 and set Translate X= 12 and Y= 0.5

open the graph editor and click translate Y and then frame the curve by clicking f

select the points at the peak and click the flatten tangent

select the valley of the curve and break tangent

Video Outcome