After Effects

Determined to get this blogging ball rolling here I am writing a mere week after my last post. The big news is we are on a new project. After effects. Exciting.

The brief for this one is from The Bait. A Cardiff based motion Graphics company.

Its a very specific brief and I imagine a typical Industry one. Essentially using a set soundtrack I have to produce an 18 second title sequence for a show called "Discovering Welsh Houses"

Thats more like it, no character animation just houses - houses are easy to animate, much easier than people... except dancing houses perhaps. But ill cross that bridge when I come to it. (note to self: Don't include dancing houses)

Maya is fun

Yes it really is - its also horrifically complicated. Weeks ago I finished my Maya section fo this course. I wasn't able to write a blog during this time as I was too busy scratching my head and going "eh?".

For the project firstly We were given a weeks intensive Maya training - not very much, and for such a huge pro gramme we probably didn't even scratch the basics, not even the real basic basics.
After that we had 3 weeks to complete a set brief. The project I worked on was written by Dinamo and called for a character to approach and cross a river using some stepping stones.

Like any stressful experience Ive since managed to forget the pain somewhat and I imagine rehashing it here may cause some kind of mental breakdown - but I imagine it was a bit like one of those films when the Pilot of a jumbo jet dies and some one has to step in and be talked through a landing by the control tower... except in this case the control tower was Matt Leonard, and we weren't using CB radios just Instant messenger.
Damn I wish we were using CB radios.

Anyway to much to Matt's credit as a software guru here is the result of my pain: