The Talented Ball (a la Maya)

As I may have said before, the talented ball is the first project of three in the 3dBuzz Maya Fundamentals class. Once I've finished this one (tomorrow!) I'll be onto the next one which is a lot more fun and interesting - its an alien spaceship flying through space!

Anyway getting through the animation on this and got a really nice bouncing effect by messing with the curves.. will upload the finished thing tomorrow for anyone to see!

Meanwhile, heres a sneak preview:


Am noticing more and more how much easier Maya is to use than 3dsMax -- I really can't understand why anyone uses Max any more and since I heard recently that even games companies are switching to Maya I can really understand their incentive for that!

However, I want to make sure in the future I'm not going to be shooting myself in the foot if I do want to work for a games company sometime, so in a few weeks time I intend to call around every games company I can find (yell.com is ace) and see how many will tell me what software they use for 3d modeling...

Anyway, been setting myself targets lately and organizing my time really well (yeah I'm proud, having been too disorganised for too many years now) so thought I would post my upcoming targets regularly on here with the aim of meeting them.

So first of all the coming week and a half. I intend to have finished the next project of Maya Fundamentals by Monday and the third by the Sunday after.. this is a very ambitious target given that I've got just under 60 hours of videos to watch, hopefully while working along at the same speed... However will be doing my best towards this and will re-adjust if I'm clearly not going to meet it despite putting the hours in!