Daily Blog, Number 1, 8/23/2017
I've been reading Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon. Lots of good advice. Some of it was putting out a little bit of your process every day, record stuff, show works in progress if you're comfortable with it. I like that idea, so I'm gonna do just that!
Yesterday and today I've been learning Autodesk Maya 2018. It's a really versatile program, and I can't wait to learn how to use it to the right extent! I've made a small animation with it, nothing complicated, a looping bouncing purple ball animation. I've spent a lot of today trying to figure out how to export it to video (for some reason, the new and shiny Arnold program that comes with Maya 2018 doesn't have .avi or .mp4 options, and when I try to export .avi with Maya Software, it only export one frame). Bit of a roadblock, so for now I'm sticking to animating the frames with Adobe AfterEffects. Sadly, there are 200 frames. Gotta remember to cut down on the frames, as that's definitely too much. Once it's rendered in AfterEffects, I'll have to slow it down.
I have an idea to try putting all the frames together with Adobe Premiere. I'm not as experienced with it, I've only used it to put video clips together. Maybe it will work.