back to Maya. School's been keeping me busy, now I think I'll have the time to get back to this project. This is very motivating, I know somewhat what I have to do and learn, and now I just have to do it. I downloaded the 2012 version of maya, installed it and started figuring it out.
I opened it, found the controls from the maya learning movies, made an object, keyframed it and made an animation. Did a playblast, not hard. But when I wanted to make a tiff-sequence from the animation, it took more time than I thought. I had an idea that rendering shouldn't be much harder than, lets say, in after effects. I found a good tutorial from youtube, thanks deepfriedectoplasm, that explained how to put the basic settings in order. But still the batch render didn't start. Later found from the web a thread, where somebody suggested switching off your firewall for some other kind of batch render problem. Checked that, and yes!
Now it's possible for me to do a tiff-sequence so I can take that with alpha to After Effects.
Also changing the camera settings from film gate to resolution gate helps me to get exactly the picture what I see on screen.
All good, all very exciting!
Next I'll have to set up a whole scene with a floor and a wall. Then I'll learn how to put up some basic lighting.
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