…the ‘I can’t handle the stress’ posts that will soon be flying thick and fast. Uni is starting its relentless pressure and last week I needed to hand in two assignments. Wouldn’t it be exciting to show you what I did?
No…not really. One was a website made using CSS, XML and XLST. Hardly thrilling stuff. The second was a 30 second animation, which while I’d actually like to post on the blog is sitting on my uni desktop refusing to be downloaded onto my external hard drive. Something about formatting on PC means it won’t work on Mac blah blah blah!
But here’s a screen capture:
Can you see what it is? On the left is my Maya software to make and animate 3D, showing four views; top, front, left and perspective. And on the right is a render of the perspective screen showing what the final images will look like.
I had to animate a ‘simple machine’. Modelling is my favourite thing to do when it comes to 3D and the machine is my little baby, a huge eye on some joints that is connected to a half ball on the ground so it can rock around. Not a useful machine, and lets face it, the fun ones never are but he’s cute and he works well as an animation. Considering this was my first time using Maya I’m happy with the results. Navigating around a new application is frankly a nightmare, it’s like being dumped in the middle of a foreign city and told you have only a certain amount of time to find some landmarks. You know what they look like but don’t know their names, and you only know part of the language too so the tour guides are next to useless.
