Saturday, 19 April 2008

Return of Maya

This week we started working with Maya again. As previous rantings may indicate, I have not enjoyed using Maya as the process of thinking in 3d baffles me. What's wrong with everything being flat?

Obviously I am aware that the world around us is in fact the three dimensions, the Earth is not flat and whilst studying on a Digital Animation course it is probably wise to try and grasp the concept of 3d modeling and movement. Although I do grudgingly admit that it’s possibly not as bad as I might think, I got off to a bad start on Tuesday when I had been suffering a migraine all day and the simple process of moving my eyes from one side of the screen to the other made me want to a) cry, and b) throw up.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that Richard will go through Maya slowly and patiently as he has promised (in front of witnesses I might add). And I am hoping that he will have slightly more pity for my lack of Maya comprehension than James, who when I explained that my problem with Maya was really the fact that I didn't understand 3d, just looked at me blankly. I think he assumed I was joking.

1 comment:

Shady Joe said...

Why thank-you. I am glad that my obscure comment made your day. Feel free to have a look at the script, you can even have a go at hacking it down if you like, I could ony just about get to four pages and i had to resort to reducing the font size in the end. I thought the script for the storyboard was a bit rubbish too, but i dealt with that by not taking it at all seriously and going off into my own little dream world with it, although i suppose it helped that the whole film area is somthing im interested in. Anyway i am rambling so i will shut up and go away.