George Quelch - VFX

I wanted to experiment with Maya particles whilst I was on my summer break. I did a bit of this following some tutorials online. The first one I totally followed tutorial work, and the second I just wanted to try and get working myself based on a lot of googling. I'm quite pleased with both of them, more so the second one, I do plan on looking into more complex particles, although there seems to be quite a bit of coding involved.

Just a little piece of animation. Ive been quite busy with my summer job so haven't had a lot of time to do animation. This is one thing I managed to get finished This is a bit of test rendering I did, just playing with different materials and lighting to see how it works in Maya 2016, nothing to complicated, I just wanted to get used to where the menus and options were with the new Mental Ray I'm not happy with how dark it is, it was a lot brighter in the Maya preview window and I'm not sure what caused it to be darker outside of Maya.