We had to design our own brief for this assignment, so I chose to animate particles using Maya’s Dynamics and nDynamics. It was during this project I began to love working with simulations (until my computer couldn’t handle it!)

I wanted to tell the story of Luke, a white blood cell known as a macrophage. He is “summoned” by the immune system to dispatch an invading Streptococcus bacteria, but is too slow and comes up with a plan to get the bacteria to come to him instead.

Design Process

A huge chunk of this brief was me testing settings in the fluid containers until I was happy with what appeared. I learned a lot of new things within Maya such as baking and the cache.