Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Maya Experimentation

So I decided that this Maya business wasn't going to be a breeze so I came in today to play around for a couple of hours to test Moom Walking.

My little hands just want to grab him through the screen and move him, I'm so not used to this mouse business getting in the way.

I found today very difficult and one point Moom looked like this:

Needless to say there was a lot of shouting at the computer. So what would be a simple task for anyone adapted to computer life I don't think it would have taken them as long as it's taken me. Which is very infuriating. However I need to force myself to do these sessions so I can do really well in this module and get better.

I decided my first little task would be to try make Moom take a few steps through straight ahead animation. Mat then came in and said it's not like stop motion it might be easier to do pose to pose. Here is Straight Ahead.


and here is my pose to pose attempt.



I think they do both look pretty similar, his hands are a lot more rigid on the pose to pose animation and he's more clunky and acts a bit clumsier like me in the straight ahead one. I think the trick will be to combine the two in future tests.

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