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Anticipation - Maya

Today's class only featured Joe, Johnnys been off with family problems so I hope all is well with him. The day before, our creative play class was cancelled so we formed a group to prepare work for next session. However we didn't do much all day and Joe had seen us and decided to put us on blast in front of the rest of class, but I guess we deserved for being lazy but I think getting to know the group should help us produce work we all can enjoy.

 Also I told Joe that I broke a part of the tripod so I was feeling slightly anxious that I might be in trouble, but the way Joe explained to report these problems, it didn't seem too big of a deal.

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 After class I'm starting to get into the habit of working in Maya. Maya holds so much to explore, finding all these routes to explore seems so daunting and strenuous. I do think once I have a grasp on Maya I'll be able to create work I'm proud of. I was in animation computer room with Paige working on the tasks for the week. She was working on pendulum and I was working on anticipation. We were both struggling quite a bit and were collectively becoming more and more frustrated as we worked. Eventually we asked James to come assist us however because of the speed he used Maya, I couldn't pick up on everything and it baffled me how he made it look so easy. I can only guess that it came from years of experience and it motivates me to keep working on Maya to reach his level. 




He showed me how to move the pivot to make it tilt up slightly. I had no trouble with the first movement but because I had moved the pivot, the next tilt couldn't be done. I gave it a spin in the middle to put the pivot on the end but I couldn't get it to look good or correct, in my opinion. It looked a bit dumb and unnatural.

anticipation rotate from muntasir chowdhurry on Vimeo.


Anticpiation - quick rotation from muntasir chowdhurry on Vimeo.

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