Today I continued planning for my final project. I do feel I am a little bit behind with my planning, which is a bit worrying, but I hope I can do a video tutorial this weekend. I was also a bit nervous about today, because Thursdays can feel like very long days and I found yesterday quite stressful, so I didn't really sleep well last night, and my current inability to have a proper night's sleep, even though I try to each night, has been a personal problem for quite a long time now, and has been a lot worse over the past month or so.
However, what I have done is decide what I am going to do for my first video tutorial, which is to start making a 3D version of the classic Pac Man level! I do feel that this is a good idea, and it does show off a lot of the basic controls in Maya, so I am happy with it. However, when I trialed the project yesterday after college, it did take me a while to get used to Maya again, after having a short break from it, and for some strange unknown reason the Undo button wouldn't work! This was the first thing I explained to Neil today, and he also thought my first idea was a good idea, and helped me to fix the Undo button so it works as it should.
I also wanted to catch up with what was discussed in yesterday's meeting and get my work ready for the online exhibition. I don't plan to make anything brand new, but I wanted to change some of the work I have submitted. I plan to submit one of the trading cards I made for the summer exhibition last year, as well as something I did in last weeks lesson for a Facebook post. I also plan to submit a blue version of the dragon I made in Maya in October, as well as a blue version of my sleigh I made in Maya before Christmas. It was really nice to revisit my work, even though I was feeling a little bit nervous about it, because I wasn't too sure how good it really was. However, I do feel that my dragon has to be the best model I have ever done, and looks excellent in blue. All I did was repaint the texture of the dragon to blue instead of red, and made another render of the dragon. I decided to recolour the sleigh in Photoshop, because for the submission of that project I edited the image quite a lot in Photoshop. I actually prefer the sleigh in blue, compared to the red and yellow sleigh I handed in. Also, I decided to change the character in the sleigh from Mario to Sonic, because my chosen colour for the exhibition is blue. This was a little bit awkward as the image I found of Sonic wasn't at the correct angle to what I wanted, and I messed up the layers in Photoshop, meaning Sonic was on the same layer as the background layer, so I couldn't edit Sonic exactly the way I wanted to.
Also, to prepare myself for the video tutorial, I decided to write a script of instructions I will cover in my first video tutorial to help me with what I am going to talk about. Neil did suggest that when I'm ready to make my video tutorials I find the music department at college and ask one of the music lecturers if I could use one of the sound booths. To be honest I didn't get around to doing this, but I am glad I know this if I need to make a video tutorial at college in the next few weeks.
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