Thursday, August 7, 2008

Journal 2 - Teo Chu Ping

Finished the assignment 2 just in the nick of time. In my opinion, the modelling of my characters were not bad. However, after including the textures, most of my characters got "screwed up". I tried to repair the problem to the best of my abilities but it did not followmy expectations. After the problem with the textures, there was the problem with the animation time. Most of my character's action seems either too fast or too slow.

I found many important and useful functions in Maya. The 1st was the hypergraphs. They allow me to select individual components of my characters and move them accordingly. The 2nd was the layer editor is also useful. It allows me to group my characters into different layers thereby allowing to select individual characters easier. (The reference function allow me to prevent myself from selecting extra stuffs like the background).

However, there are still many areas of maya i have yet to explore. An example would be the lightings, paints etc. I feel that it is a waste as these functions really provide a good model/animation. (From examples i saw while searching the internet for tutorials)

In conclusion. I believe that if i would have more time (alot alot more) i would be able to create a realistic and interesting scene. And also, i regret that i had allocated too little time for this project and thus resulted in a crappy piece of work.

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