Yay long weekend

This week we had a 4 day long weekend because of easter. Didn’t do anything though. I decided to stay at home to catch up on homework. I’ve been working on our under the boardwalk assignment. We need to texture light and render an underwater scene. It has to have 3 camera moves that are 4-5 seconds long. Our instructor gave us about a month an a half to complete this one, and I can’t believe I’m not done. This thing is due on April 1st. Just trying to figure out some extra stuff I can throw in here to make it better. So far, no luck. I’ve also decided to change all 3 of my camera moves that have already been approved by my teacher. Hopefully it will be more interesting the second time around. I’ve recently figured out how to make fog two different ways. I’m not sure which one I’m going to use just yet. I’ve also found two ways to make water. I’ve decided to stick with the preset ocean that came with maya. This scene is kinda sucking so for. At least my fake caustics are looking ok. Our instructor also wants us to render this thing in separate passes. I’m sure most of my class will have trouble doing this. It’s going to take me a while to figure this out. Our modeling class is getting pretty nutty. We are learning how to model the head. So far I’m stuck on the nose. It looks pretty bad. Looks like everyone is starting to think about demo reel ideas. I’m sure most of my class already have a good idea of what they’re going to be doing for their demos. I’ve been giving this a lot of thought lately, and so for I still don’t have anything solid. I think I’m going to end up just throwing a whole bunch of random stuff together. We need to tell our program head what our demo reel idea is going to be in less than two weeks, and I don’t know what i’m going to say. I don’t even know if it’s going to be animation, modeling, or environments? Damn. Why can’t I think of anything? I’ve Decided not to go with my first couple ideas because by the looks of things, they’re going to take me way too long to complete, and we only have about half a year to work on them. Plus all the homework we get. My demo reel is going to end up being turn arounds for a bunch of randome stuff.

On the plus side, I’ve finished my cg on live assignment early last Thursday. I’m pretty happy with this one. It came out pretty sweet, but a little on the short side.

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~ by mnicolas on March 23, 2008.