5/10/10
My very first lesson in my second year i used a software called Maya 6 which makes 3D animation, i basically started with a ball and morphed it into a shape. I will look at the tutorials cause my skills arent at a very good standard. This is all done using a MAC. I cant see me doing anything special but i might suprise myself. I would conisider myself as a story teller or game narrative rather than a 3D modeller.
12/10/10
I did my first ever animation today of a ball being bounced around the room
Oh yeah!!! I feel like a king. I used Maya 6 and used about 17 slides to do the animation, I didnt however get it to squash on impact but i will improve on this 
19/10/10
Starting to create human limbs with the first being a hand as i guess that seems to be the easiest to do but not for me, mine is s complete and utter fail. Better get my head in the books i have ordered or im in big trouble
Talked about my assignment idea with the class and tutor, wasnt a good idea but it was basically going to be 2 desk lamps having am argument and i was going to show the mood of it with the lighting of the lamps by brighter being happy and duller being sad or mad depending on the situation. But then at home i came up with a better one. I decided to have a desk lamp jump up and down on a bed and then some wild kids will come in and start to jump on the bed with it but it sends the lamp off the bed, hopefully you understand the idea it will be better seen than said 
2/11/10
Today was a bad day
. I really couldnt follow a simple exercise, and the animation was pretty much done for us. I had to sit with a fellow classmate and try my best to follow what they were doing. I have got 2 books at home which im studying through but is still in need of basic training. Hoping i can get through this and come out with a decent mark. Also talked about my idea with the tutor and she liked it allthough she was concerned when i said i was going to have a kid in the animation but then told her that it would only be legs and then she was fine. Like i said im a gamer so my imagination will be wild and not to sure if i can actually implement it but i shall give it a go
9/11/10
I sat down with the tutor as she told me about the tutorials that i could do and watch. So i watched them and i feel better using the software. I was just watching how to move objects and shape them into different shapes. I didnt do much today as i was trying to get use to the software and seeing what button did what.
16/11/10
Week off (Reading week)
23/11/10
Today i achieved something as i started the walk cycle and i almost got it perfect but didnt quite get the right leg movements so he looked like he was going forward, but instead he was going backwards like doing a moonwalk haha. But i had to restart it many times due to my old walk cycle got corrupted, shame.
30/11/10
Snowed in couldn't make it to lecture.
7/12/10
I listened to a lecture about flash as we need to do some flash in our work so we can pass. Never really used flash before so that will be another thing i will be struggling at. Spoke to the tutor at the end to see if i could get help with my walk cycle and the lamp animation.
8/12/10
Started on the animation for the lamp, got the outlines of a room and a table with the lamp in it, Textured the walls and table.
15/12/10
Added a box in for the lamp so that it could knock it off the table, i textured that too.
18/12/10
Started to set key frames for the animation
2/1/11
Finished the animation and started to rig it.
6/1/11
Started my adobe flash work
Pictures of work
Here is the final animation of the lamp knocking over a box off the table =]
Here is a screen shot of the textures in the actual animation
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