Scene 2

Am really wrapped up in my project right now and trying desperately to ensure that I finish this on time. Just popped in to place a pix for those who are interested. I would like to give it horizontal wooden planks on all the stakes in the fence instead of just the gate but that would really weigh my scene down and take up time I don't really have right now, so I'll just have to live with this. :( Right.... back to work. 冲啊!! =)

recent updates...

I've made quite a bit of progress on my final project for my Maya course. But sadly, I've not really had the time to update the blog as I'm simply too busy to do it. But when I have time to, I will hopefully be able to upload the final picture of Set 1 and the 3 characters I've created so far. I still have Set 2 and animation and have a 20th Nov dateline. So I really am quite pressed for time.

Got bulldozed into doing some additional work at work next week and am really not terribly happy about it, nor am I looking forward to more work preventing me from finishing up my Maya project. But the marshmallow in me made it difficult for me to refuse to do this favour for people I consider my friends.... sigh.... I need to be nastier. :)

Lately, I've managed to watch some TVB series as I worked on my projects. Have finished Face to Fate, Maiden's Vow and Love Guaranteed. Of the three, I would say that Maiden's Vow was the worst and most over-hyped of the lot. It began with a nice concept but the script was terrible and it couldn't seem to decide how to tie 4 generations of a single family properly. In the end, it ended up being a superficial link, that is, they are 4 generations of a family, that is their link... yeah... whatever. Face to Fate turned out to be the most enjoyable of the three. While the series didn't exactly boast a very unsual storyline, the execution, the development, the performances all came together to form a very nice whole.

Anyway, that's it form me for now. I have to dash in a bit and need to get ready to leave. :)

ta ta

Maya - Final Project - Set 1

Here's a pix of my progress. I need to make a few more things for the dresser and a table lamp and I think the room is about done.

Actually I know I should work on the characters too but those are kinda time consuming and I find them less fun. :D So I'm procrastinating on doing them. Heh heh... :)

Anyway, here is the pix of the the room.

cheers

Maya - Final Project - set

(click on the thumbnails for a clearer look)

Hi hi.... been a while. I've finally managed to finish up all the pressing projects at work and now I'm trying hard to try and work on my final project. I've got the storyboard and script etc all done and am now working on the sets etc before I do the animation.

Hopefully I can finish the basic set and the characters by the end of the week. We'll see.

Anyway, here's some pictures detailing the progess of my project. These pictures are of the set.

cheers

Maya - assignment 5

Here's Assignment 5. I actually completed it last week but was too lazy to put it online. I'm quite pleased with my face and blendshape modelling for this assignment. But I had trouble rigging it and ended up re-doing that and paint weighting so many times that I actually ran out of time to do proper animation. Sigh.... so yet another imperfect piece of work.

Still, I think I'm really getting the hang of it. And I enjoy animation more and more.

After this I have to try and finish Assignment 6 as quickly as possible then I've got my final assignment to finish up. So going to be super busy for a while.

Anyway, I hope you like my sync sound assignment. =)

enjoy

This is just too funny

A friend emailed this to me. I thought it was hilarious and thought I'll share it with whoever is interested.

WORDS WE BAN IN PRE-IMPRESS EDITING

Take a 5 minute break -

Washington Evening Post

These are the submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which
readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. You
might find it interesting:-

The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take
any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or
changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this
year's winners:-

1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
6. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.
7. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
8. Karmageddon (n): It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
9. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
10. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.
11. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter
when they come at you rapidly.
12. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
13. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into
your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
14. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub
in the fruit you're eating.

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Maya - man

Been a while since I updated the blog but have been rather busy with my latest assignment. This time I'm suppose to do sync sound. Here's a look at the character I modeled and that we're suppose to animate. I'm in the midst of rigging it right now and should finish that soon. After that I'll animate it to the audio file. We're using blend shapes to animate the talking.

Okay, I'm going to try and get s bit of sleep first cuz I'm really smashed these few days. Tomorrow, I'll have to work extra hard as I need to finish this up and hand it in on Saturday morning. Hopefully nothing really crops up and hopefully I can get up early. =)

enjoy