A Reversing Beginner

Type 3D Animation
Timeline November 2024
Tools Maya / Substance 3D Painter / After Effects / Illustrator
My Role 3D Designer & Animator

Overview

A Reversing Beginner is a one-minute 3D animation I created in Maya. A small yellow car pulls into an empty parking lot. The lot fills up, the car struggles to reverse, bumping into everything around it. It finally escapes. Then the camera pulls back, and the entire scene is sitting inside a transparent toy box.

Process

Texturing

I gave every surface its own finish. The car wears a yellow, cardboard-like texture for a handcrafted, toy feel, while the parking lot carries hand-drawn lane markings and symbols.

Texturing — car texture maps and rendered car
Texturing — parking lot texture maps and rendered parking lot

Movement

I choreographed the car's movement through the lot, from smooth entry to clumsy, bumping reversing.

Wheel in Motion

The wheels turn naturally with the car's motion, grounding it in a believable sense of movement.