Animating Drone Eyes.

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 After Effects: Creating the Blink.

Created blink cycle with eyes created in photoshop, then went through and changed their appearance and saved them out as PNGs. I then imported
these into after effects and overlaid them on the base colour texture map.

Then Pre-Composed the blink cycle to then blend it with the base colour.

Brought in a cut out of

the screen (no
eyes.png) and set the
blend mode to pin
light.

Here I then duplicated the eyes

blink cycle and then pre-composed
them to be the eye blinks base.
Then with the eyes left behind I set
their blend modes to overlay with
the no eyes layer sandwiched
between them.

From there I then added masks to the eye areas

so I can then animate the eyes in the other
comp
 Animating the Blink Movement.

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Used position node and key frames to create the eyes transition from one point to another.
Duplicating key frames to pause eye positions before moving on to the next point.
 Looked to create an alpha for the new animated eyes. To do this I used one of the compositions containing the blink and created a new comp, from
there I then used the colour change tool/effect to change the bule eyes to white.

Then copied over the animation transition from the eyes animation to the the new alpha layer.

With the animation copied over, I then

Brought in previous emission mask to get the the text alpha and used a
created a solid black layer and then pre-
mask to hide the static eyes, leaving behind the animated eyes.
composed it with the Alpha composition.
 Animated Eyes on Drone 2.
-Brought image sequences into Maya replacing the colour and emission maps with the new animated sequences.
 Animated Eyes on Drone 1.
-Brought image sequences into Maya replacing the colour and emission maps with the new animated sequences; here I
just altersed the existing after effects file and made sure to bring in drone 1 colour base map.
 Emission Blink Cycle Test.

Drone 2.

Drone 1.