Our first Maya lesson was just a small introduction, where we were shown a presentation then went into Maya in the last half hour of the lesson. We were taught some basic tools, like how to move around, change perspective view and turn soft select on and off. Although we didn't have much time to use Maya in the first class, I was still happy to get back into it after not doing much this summer.
In our latest Maya lesson, we had to design some characters based on different stereotypes we were given. Mine was beatnik, and we also had the added challenge of making them aliens/monsters instead of humans. We also had to draw a table and put three random numbers up to four in. We later found out that this would be the number of arms, legs and eyes our characters would have. We started with eight very simple shapes, drawing what we think the silhouette of our character could look like, and not adding much detail at all. Here are my original eight:
After that, we walked around the room and talked to the rest of the class about our designs. We had to pick three designs out of the eight to develop, and I chose the ones that have numbers on above. My most favourite design, (no. 2), was a bit of a mistake because I didn't do any arms when I was supposed to do three! However I really liked it, so decided to develop it further. Here are my three developments:
After this, we got to pick one to make as a final design. I chose number two, because it was my favourite even though it didn't have the right amount of arms! Here is my final design.
We scanned the final design onto a memory stick so we can work on it in a week or so. We'll be taking it into Illustrator to make a digital design then modelling it in Maya.
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