MAYA

In last weeks session we were introduced to the programme MAYA. I will start off by saying it is a very powerful, complicated and useful software that can be very affective if used by professionals. We started off with the basics and were shown how to create a simple balloon that moves about.

Some of it was easy to understand but I quickly lost my way and got very confused and behind. With me being behind I decided to stop practicing and watched the person next to me to understand it better and help them if they got stuck.
I appreciate that MAYA can be very creative but I think it is very complicated. I didn't like the system personally because of this and was stressed at the amount of times something would go wrong, or not do what I was asking of it.
Its good to have knowledge of the various systems in the industry, and I thought Adobe After Effects was brilliant and I will be learning more from it in the future down to my choice, but I didn't bond well with MAYA.

In image 1, I was setting up the shape I wanted to produce.
Image 2, I created a sphere to fit on to the squared platform.

In image 1, I was selecting the ball and trying to get the ball to move left to right using markers that would allow it to move freely when I pressed play.

Image 2, shows me morphing the ball in to a shape, this part was quite fun and intriguing as to what shapes could be created.