Friday, September 30, 2011

Ok. So. My current class is all about fixing, changing, building and overall polishing up old work to make it as strong as it can possibly be - and I am in need of ideas. : )

I'm thinking of adding a second character (just a walkcycle along the sidewalk perhaps) and my kid either flattening against the wall or trying to look inconspicuous - cheezy - like in a cartoon, as they walk by. My current teacher was confused by his entrance at first, and suggested making it more obvious he's trying to be sneaky - although I was shooting for an obvious, conspicuous type of sneak - I now wonder if anyone else is unsatisfied with it. x_x

Any and every idea is welcome - this week is all about story boarding it out and building a decent set (below)

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Maya trouble

Hi all,

I was having trouble with Maya, so I asked Dave for some help. Basically I was having two problems: First of all, every time I opened Maya, I would receive a dialogue box asking me if I wanted to create a shelf button. It wasn't so bad at first, but then it started causing Maya to freeze, to the point where I couldn't even open it. Secondly, since I work with dual monitors, I was opening my reference footage in one monitor and opening Maya on the other, but when I tried to play the reference footage on one screen it ended up taking over the other screen as well.

Dave told me that the first issue was caused by a script in the zooToolBox called zooAutoSave, and that I could remove it by simply deleting the script. Apparently working with dual monitors causes some issues with Maya.

However, I'm still having trouble with the reference footage issue. The problem is not that my reference footage is disappearing; the problem is that when I move my reference footage over to my secondary desktop, it takes over my primary desktop completely, so that I can't access my taskbar or anything. This is what's happening:


If anyone can help I'd be very grateful!

Thanks!

~Brittany

Monday, September 26, 2011

Jack - Dialogue assignment blocking

From 421_02 class. A blocking state from the first assignment, 2 person dialogue. I just start with some main poses to see the timing. I don't know why but the sound is a bit off after I playblast this clip from Maya.

Feel free to comment.

Changing namespace to A mel script

Hi, i was looking around the internet and i was able to piece together a mel script that changes name space, its not that great but it's a lot faster switching characters to namespace A in the reference editor.
So this is the script

file -e -namespace "B" -referenceNode "B" "C:/Users/Tim Li/Desktop/Animation3//scenes/morpheusRig_openReleaseCandidate_v02.mb{1}";
file -e -namespace "A" -referenceNode "A" "C:/Users/Tim Li/Desktop/Animation3//scenes/morpheusRig_openReleaseCandidate_v02.mb";

Namespace "  " is what you want to change the name space to be.
referenceNode " " is the name space you have currently set for that character.
The location is where the reference material is stored. So if you referenced two characters from the same file, maya usually just adds {1} to the end

You then make two mel scripts (or how ever many characters you have in the scene)

This is to change character 1 into namespace A
file -e -namespace "B" -referenceNode "B" "C:/Users/Tim Li/Desktop/Animation3//scenes/morpheusRig_openReleaseCandidate_v02.mb{1}";
file -e -namespace "A" -referenceNode "A" "C:/Users/Tim Li/Desktop/Animation3//scenes/morpheusRig_openReleaseCandidate_v02.mb";

This is to change character 2 into namespace A
file -e -namespace "AB" -referenceNode "A" "C:/Users/Tim Li/Desktop/Texturing and lighting/Animation3//scenes/
morpheusRig_openReleaseCandidate_v02.mb";
file -e -namespace "A" -referenceNode "B" "C:/Users/Tim Li/Desktop/Texturing and lighting/Animation3//scenes/morpheusRig_openReleaseCandidate_v02.mb{1}";

hope this helps

Friday, September 23, 2011

INSTRUCTOR POST - Dave Latour gone next week.

To all my students:

Sadly, I have to travel back to Canada to attend my father-in-law's funeral and will be back in classes on Tuesday Oct 4. I will pass on instructions here in the blog and to your substitute instructor. Continue to work on your assignments any scheduled hand-in for next week will be delayed until I return. Continue to post your work in progress to the blog along with any questions you may have. Keep working diligently and I will see you next week

Dave

Monday, July 18, 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011

Welcome 801_03 students

Hey everyone on anim421

My summer 2011 group directed study students will be joining the blog to post their work and offer feedback. Please make them feel welcome.

Dave