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Slow in Slow out - Maya

Similar to last week the classes we were halved and one half did Maya and other others did stop-motion. When Joe was explaining the process of stop-motion, i got the feeling that precision is needed in this type of animation. I feel like this suits my type of personality and i could do stop-motion really well, but i know i'll spend forever doing one animation because im a bit of a perfectionist.



After both halves of the class were done with learning what task they were meant to do for the week, Johnny and Joe asked us to come up and present our work. I have a lot of admiration for those who went up and i could tell how nervous or anxious they were, naturally they were defensive and almost too self critical but i think i would be exactly the same in their shoes. 

Joe also pointed out to the class that Maya by default adds an ease so that it was wasn't a linear A-B. I was definitely glad that i didn't go up because i guess i had done a slow in slow out loop with a rectangle and with the way Joe was picking up on the aspects we missed this weeks 'brief', I would of be slaughtered. I know that i will eventually will go up and present my work to the class but when i do, i want to be able to accept all the criticism and hopefully use it to spur me on and improve on my work. Stage fright is something I've struggled my whole life so looking into ways people got over it might be really beneficial for me. 

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When i went back into Maya, i redid the block A-B and used the graph to differentiate between the linear and the eased versions.



A-B  linear from muntasir chowdhurry on Vimeo.
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