Blog Progress Update Week 1

This is a blog progress update for the week of January 14th, 2013. In the first week of my exploration into Maya animation i decided to a tutorial provided by Digital Tutors with their tutorial Beginners Guide to Maya Animation. This tutorial wasn't particularly difficult in anyway as it really just went over the basics of Maya animation including what is animation, what are key-frames and how do they work as well as deformers which i must admit is something I can't really recall studying before so it looks like they may be worth looking into more.

After the tutorials went over the basics it began to go into setting key-frames and working with the graph editor and going in depth over deformers in order to animate a lawnmower. The tutorials themselves were of great quality and I would highly recommend them to someone just getting started but i personally can't afford the vast majority of their lessons as normally the site requires a paid subscription.

Overall it wasn't a bad lesson but perhaps a tad below my level, as i already have a fairly solid handle on how animation works within Maya. I may rethink next weeks lesson which is supposed to be the beginners guide to Rigging by them, but I do need some rather extensive practice with that so i will likely stick with it.