Week 15 Comments

Wow! It's almost been a whole month without a Weekly discussion. Well I just get right into it then. This week was another work week with barely any real instruction ( which are always nice ). What made me happy this week was getting 2nd place in the class competition project. I was a little surprised because I thought that I would get 3rd place if anything, but I was pretty excited. I'm glad I got 2nd place though because I thought that Patrick's animation was clearly the best one, and I would have felt bad if he got snubbed for 1st place. What made me frustrated this week was texturing, riging and weight painting my character for my 3d Short. What's great about my 3d short is that there's really only 2 unique character rigs I have to make, as the differences between the characters are purely textures. But it took me a long time to even figure out how to do my textures to begun with. But once I figured out that, Weight painting smacked me right in the face. Basically it sucks and I hate it, but I will figure it out eventually. But I recently found out about Automatic Mapping in Maya which basically does UV Mapping for you. I almost pee'd my pants when I found out about this, and I'm so relieved now because I always hated UV Mapping and Now I'm re-doing my textures in a much more realistic way. I'm looking forward to continuing to work on my 3D Short, and finding out the best way to do things in Maya. Sorry for rambling, On to the link of interest.

Yesterday I found out about this Gem. It's a Korean film about a Bat Swinging Circus Gorilla who ends up playing baseball for Korean Basball Team, The Doosan Bears. As soon as I found out about this movie I immediately had to see the trailer and oh my god, it did not disappoint. It looks pretty action packed and epic. The whole movie can be found on YouTube here. I Strongly suggest you check it out in the near future, I know I will. But in the back of my mind watching this movie, I'll probably be thinking of this the whole time. Anyway Thanks for reading. I'm looking forward to finishing my 3D Short and seeing what you guys think about it.