Week 2: Animation

Haven't really updated this as much as I should have been, but oh well. We finished off covering everything very slightly last week, now each on of those day's is getting taught in depth over the space of a week. This week animation!

We covered animation a bit last week and it was good, it seems quite hard at first but you get the hang of it quite quickly. It's just trying to remember what constraints to use with what is the hard part! Aim? Parent? point?

Today we made a digger, well made it appear as though it was, picking up a box and moving it to another location, that was quite fun. Then we got to animate the ol' "Pixar Lamp" using bones and IK. That was a bit more fun. We just have the jump animation done at the moment, but tomorrow I believe we are going to adapt on this, well even if the class doesn't I will be. Hopefully completing some kind of hilarious short!

Even though I didn't come into this course wanting to know animation, it is good they teach you it and I am really quite interested now! Even if I don't end up using it in a job I definitely think I would use it in my own spare time for fun!

I also got an Intuos4 at the weekend, it is awesome, the 8 buttons and the 'iPod click wheel' work so well! You can also make all of the buttons set up just how you want and application specific, haven't quite done that myself yet but I soon will.

I shall try to update this more, but if I updated constantly you wouldn't do the course yourself now would you!