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Animation 101

This was our first proper animation class, looking at the twelve principles of animation. We obviously started off with the complete basic movement called A-B. After Johnny was done introducing the module the class was separated into two, one half doing the stop-motion and the other working on Maya. I decided to stay in the Maya half of the class as i thought it would be best to get familiar to the beast they have told us is Maya. The interface had a lot going on but didn't look too intimidating. The work set looked like i could completed it as soon as the lecture was over. Because James had just gone over the work and by using a cheat sheet i made, sadly i got damaged because i spilt tea in by bag.




 I produced the work quite efficiently, and almost no problems. The only part i had issues was with the play-blast, but this was because i was deliberately messing around with the settings to familiarize myself with the rendering process. I do hope that the next task set is a little more difficult.






cube a-b playblast 3 from muntasir chowdhurry on Vimeo.



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