What been happening this week

This week I have been doing more walk cycles geting to grips with the graph editor and sorting out the tangents. Also this week me and Dan C have been talking about differernt ways to possible use an existing rig with all the controls and tranfering this to our character that Anna and Dan R are making. The benifts of doing this would be that it will save a lot of time and over coming some problems that we might encounter. This would leave us more time to animate and prefect more to our liking.
If we cant find a way to do this then it wouldnt be much of a downfall, but just eats into time that is running out very fast.
Anna and Dan R have transferred there low ploy head models from Maya into Z brush to start sculpting detial and defining more definition. This was quite a slow process as they were quite new to the programme and from experience hard to get to grips with all the tools and navigating round the screen.

We encounterd an obvious problem when going to save what they been working on for a couple of hours. When they had gone to save what they had done they saved it as "Document" as its the first button to click as seem some obvouis to click. When coming back after lunch and going back to what they had been working on they couldnt edit any thing. This had been such a waste of time and effort. To over come this small problem we experiment and tried "save as tool" and not document. But to save it as a tool is the second option and doesnt seem logical to be first choice.
This set them back and was VERY frustraing but on the positive side Anna and Dan R had got better at Z brush and the way to aproach sculpting the head of there character.

On Wednesday we had to edit our films that we short a couple of weeks earlier. I had been looking at lots of different tutorials on the internet as there was this one site that had all the tutorials as videos so you can follow them with out getting lost too easily. These were very Helpfull in adding little effects to my short film.

Today we had some feedback fom the first term animation that were shown to class. This was usefull as we could get feedback and coments from other people in our class. Also I have been updating my blog and ready for the aformative on friday.

For the rest of the week me and Dan C should be able to have the head of the character and maybe the body so we can rig the and weight the body ready for animating.