Valiant Effort

I endured a horrendous bus journey to college ( I am sure the bus driver hit every pot hole possible) only to find that the technicians had not installed the trial of Maya on the college computers. Blast? As it happened this gave me some time to cast up as get back into the loop of the regime that is dead farm. Adam and Kev are pushing hard to hit their vision for the level and it seems that they have really thought hard about the route they want the level to take.

I have started on some simple assets to further my Maya skills, but was unable to continue in college, so after updating what still needed to be modelled went home in the Swiss Taxi, and continued to shout at Maya for the afternoon.

The issue I have is that I am approaching the program the same way that I use Max. I am looking for Max primitives and not finding them where I expect them to be. As the afternoon went on I decided to look over a couple of tutorials and 'read' rather than 'do' where items were. This break really helped me sort myself out and even after a little run in with the Hide/Un Hide feature, the latter stopping me flat as I had no geometry to model with, I really started to enjoy working with Maya. I am finding that the commands are more at your finger tips through the HOT BOX (Space Bar)and slowly I am starting to use the menus rather than spend my life in them.




Anyway here is a little something I started, textured then decided to develope. I created this Pallet using straight box shapes, so that I could practice UV Mapping etc, then decided that I wanted more of a challenge so have begun to rat it up a little. Slowly, but funnly. I will get there in time for TT,and I will enjoy it. I just hope my stomach is with me well before then. develop