Casey Berg (our TA) is giving a presentation this week at CS Tea - Thursday, 11:30am in Ford 202
All are welcome to attend! Cookies, tea, coffee will be provided.
Comments and Lessons Learned from Lab 6:
Make sure your storyboards and collaboration form are in your FinalAnimations folder.
Use multiple Maya scene files - don't put the entire animation in one big Maya file. Break it up into shots/scenes.
Use file referencing and not importing! Exceptions may be for the characters if they don't reference well.
Organize your project scenes folder better, e.g. make a subfolder for the shots and a separate subfolder for
files which are referenced.
Name your shot/scene files in a way that makes it clear of their order, e.g, shot1_opening.mb, shot2_charsMeet.mb, etc
Create environment_x.mb file which contains everything that is the same for multiple shots. For example, if a room, chairs and table are in multiple shots, the environment file would contain the room with chairs and table in the appropriate relation to one another. This is the file which would then be referenced into the separate shots.
The objects such as the chairs, table, etc could be referenced or imported into the environment file (sometimes multiple levels of referencing causes problems).
