Thursday, May 22, 2008

Journal 1 (part 1 & 2): Maya & Animation (MGSP-Michelle)

Haha i agree with Wee You. "Don't underestimate 3D modelling".... Rather time -consuming for now! Haha and Yongsen the picture you made there, looks rather professional ...but let's see if the class finds it suitable... ;)

But wow I have been looking forward to this module! haha, animation rocks! Hopefully everything goes well and fun yea. Thanks all for helping!

Wow Kuan Wei gone far ahead of us already ahh..haha, being able to create a flour of sack...Mr Douglas once said we should be able to animate a flour sack(which is so cute and soft) , with an imaginary skeleton inside or something. Cool! ( And, who says a person over age of 20 cannot use the word 'Cool'? Mr Douglas.. you can.. )

Ok I feel weird blogging here. I hope this post is relevant..if not please feel free to delete it okay? :) Ok animation is so exciting and I enjoy watching Jimmy Neutron and also other cartoons and animation productions... as well as many other shows....Suppose and know that you all enjoy watching cartoons and 3D animation productions too...Wenyan..correct?? :P..

The way the many different amazing kinds of lovable characters there mimic real-life beings' mannerisms.... and how similar and close they are to us..., how they make us laugh etc.. They are even closer to us now that they are shows like CJ7 ( where the greenish creature mimics a dog) and Lao Fu Zi where real life people like Stephen Chow(my Idol) interact with a toy character.So if we observe human's actions now, I suppose it will help us animate in the future.. i think! So start observing each other now!

Part two (sorry I misread and thought we need to have two blog posts, haha so i typed this =X...just read it hahaha )

It's been so quick, time flies! One time we were just buying the Maya textbook...in a blink of an eye...we have to build a city! We also saw Mr Douglas' building of Temasek Polytechnic which we all agreed looked really awesome and realistc. Wow, how am I ever gonna be able to build something like that... However, as you all suggested, hopefully, through practice, online tutorials, research, and our valuable, Maya classes should be able to train us to be in this competitive industry. Forgive us if we are not able to catch up in class or make silly mistakes... Thanks for clearing our doubts...

Through IN3D lesson, we learnt that we are at the higher end in this industry as our course offers programming as well as design. People who know programming and design are much sought after. I have learnt that programming is very important as it can help us reduce time and edit/ shape things the way we want it to be. *worries* I better be able to to it and not just speak of it! No point worrying, Michelle! Get started! There is still hope!, i HOPe.

I hope this post has not been too negative so far. Okay, I am sure we all enjoy Maya to an extent. In a program, we can create many different kinds of things we want. It sure is interesting and useful. I agree with Taiyou's post alot, especially the last part where he mentioned about having the proficiency in Maya, we will be given future opportunities on our jobs and also benefit us in creating games for the world.

As what Leslie as mentioned about the plane images, it is useful as it helps us and lessen the hassle in having to estimate or try too hard to visualize everything. Even when we import plane images, we may come across the time when the objects looked distorted. In order to make it be in the correct shape, we should retype the sizes of the objects to it's respective width and length.

It is amazing how we can change and import the textures and colours into our objects and make it look like a skin of its own which we should ensure, must fit in. For example, the earth texture, is intially from a flat image, can be wrapped around a sphere, making it look like the globe of the Earth! This means, we can literally create almost anything we want! From an blue imaginary friend, to a furry cute little dog, to a lovely-looking tree outside that window we see!

Alrights, good luck everyone for your city & all your lovely Maya activities & your two journals up here that by Friday 23 May, 12pm, if I am not wrong..AHH~ ahhahaa. HAVE GREAT FUN & PASSION!! (Despite your frustration, if you last for 2 hours or more..!!)

-Michelle -

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