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 textured all surfaces in the scene. For the car, I chose a yellow cardboard-like finish to give it a handcrafted, toy-like feel. For the parking lot, I drew lane markings and symbols as vectors, then composited them into the ground texture.

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

Motion Path

I animated the car's movement along a path drawn directly in the scene.

Wheel Rigging

I rigged the wheels to rotate automatically based on the car's forward motion.