Maya - Cam coverage

This lesson we recorded the crash animation and then put it in Premiere Pro to mix the clips together to make a scene.

Animation - Lesson one

This lesson was about using an x-sheet to plan out the mouth movements for a lip sync animation.
It was pretty difficult to grasp, and I made a few mistakes and didn't manage to finish it in this lesson.

Character Design - workshop one

The first workshop we looked at the basic shapes that make characters, squares, circles, and triangles and how they change the type of character.

For our first task we were assigned a random character and had to change the base shape they were made with to try and make them look like they're a different sort of character while remaining the same character.
I got Superman.

My first attempt went a bit awry because I got a bit confused as to what we were  supposed to be doing.

My second attempt went better, I was trying to use triangles.

This was done just because I had a bit of time before out next task, which was to take a character from whatever you wanted and draw them in a different sort of style to the original, I chose Cloud Strife from the Final Fantasy VII Advent Children film, which uses a realistic style, and I tried to make it more cartoon-y. 

Adobe Audition - Lesson one

Our first lesson was getting to grips with the basics of the program.
We fixed some generic audio, then made a monster sound based on an image.

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(I'm not 100% sure if the link works properly, but I couldn't find a better way of adding audio files)

From Script to Screen - Prompts/initial idea

The three words I got for this project were;

Deep sea fisherman
Prison
Envelope

My original idea for this was a man in prison a prison cell, a guard walks up to him and says "You have a letter." and then guides him out. Every open cell they pass shows a clip of the man's childhood, ending with the act that got him incarcerated. He is then led to a room with the envelope with other guards muttering about it?
Then it ends with the man opening the envelope with a shocked look.

Maya - Panning shot, staircase roll, pitch shot

What If? Metropolis - Final crit + reflective statement

Whilst I feel as though I have a better understanding of Maya and how to use it thanks to this project, I have mostly learnt that I really need to improve on my time management, and I have started drawing up a plan to help with this for the next terms, and I am going to try my hardest to be a better student.
I am upset that I couldn't finish the scene, but it was entirely my own fault so there's not much more I can say about it.