5th Week Review

I had a little moan to Jared...and now I feel bad about it.  I know its self directed learning and all but I just thought we would be learning more modeling techniques and bits and bobs within MAYA itself considering we only scratched the surface last year with everyone having to use a downloaded rig from the internet as we didn't even have time to build our own... I apoligize though for what I said to Jared and it definately came out wrong - it was not what I meant.  I shall not repeat it now.  I am happy with the way that I've been directing my study time at University and at home however there's so many questions I still have unanswered that Google and YouTube cannot answer - for this I realise that there are books now... expensive books but still that doesnt matter... can you put a price on a decent education? (3grand a year isnt much considering we will have the rest of our lives to earn it back) Answer no in case you didn't realise... I get that now.  So this week I've kind of been a bit lazy on Maya and taken a bit of time off for myself and done a bit of my Case Study considering Nick Rodgers has been VERY VERY helpful to me!!! I've got a lot of respect for that guy now for helping out a student and I hope to do the same for a student WHEN I get somewhere within the Games Industry! Not if...WHEN... very determined one I am.  I will practice and practice until I make something of myself.

The project itself 201 Digital Environment is going great.  I'm loving the look of the lights that Simon, Alec and myself have been playing around with.  We finally got a character we can use (Toms) and therefore once again... it's all coming together.  I noticed that a lot of people in other groups are using animals in their work, Spiders, Cockroaches or bugs or just not realistic looking characters... thats not the feel or vibe we had from our Tudor style houses and therefore I think we are going for a bit more mundane style looking fella for our main character to interact with the surroundings... Still every group is beginning to worry about time as its probably about the time everyone goes OHHhhhh GOD look how long we have left...and we havn't started...so and so.....I think thats going to kick in officially either next week or the week after!

Its all good fun and I can't wait to join them....now....give it two weeks and I'll be saying WHY DIDN'T I DO MORE INSTEAD OF WRITING THIS BLOG RIGHT NOW! lol

That's a good point....I'll go do something in a minute.

Good evening.

(ps sorry if I went off on one a bit there)