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Close the rigs next week to get a better view on the pose.
Be aware of the pose should looks interesting 360 degree, consider all angles when posing, whether it’s unbalanced or not a good-looking shape.
Curve the spine more to form a C-shape.
The elbow can be placed closer to the head
to from a cleaner shape with the head and weapon.
The knee on screen left should turn to the same way the character facing,
or it’s not exerting force appropriately and looks unnatural.
*Keep in mind that pose should be natural from every angle,
not just one perspective!
5 principles of Golden Pose:
1. Clear silhouette
2. Line of action
C shape (banana shape)
S shape
V shape
3. Balance and weight
4. Asymmetry
5. Exaggeration emotion personality
This is the first week I learn MAYA. Well, it’s actually not the first time. I have tried MAYA long time ago and it was not a pleasant experience. But this time when I open MAYA, I found that I am not that resist to MAYA right now and I feel more comfortable when trying to figure out how to use these Autodesk soft wares. I’m quite surprised and happy, It means that I truly started learning. I guess It’s a good thing.
Also I tried to do as much home works as I can. YAAA!!
Total Time: about 30 min
This week I only did the first challenge, because I couldn’t come up with a character that I can find references of its hero, standing, happy pose at once right now.( Brain fog nooooo) So I tried the hero pose.
During posing, I tried to move the palms or elbows etc., but this rig seems had locked those variations so I just rotate and tried a lot to make the pose looks alike compare to the reference as much as I can. But now when I am typing the record, I found that some angles and positions are not that correct and there’s some adjustments I may do to polish it. I’ll try to be a better observer next time.
MAYA Study
Workspace : a preset layout of available windows and panels.
Chanel box : where your selected object attributes are displayed.
24 fps is common for movie, animation or commercials.
30 fps is common for games (60 fps)
World axis : always consistent
Local axis : relative to the object
*yellow means that axis is locked
Hot Keys
Alt + B : Hotkey to cycle through viewport background colors
Pan/Move : alt + MMB
Zoom : alt + right click/MMB scroll
Rotate : alt + left click
Call panel : Shift + right click
F : framing up to adjust where the pivot is located
[ ] : changing camera position to last position and current position.
Space bar : four pane view
Hold space bar : call panel
W : move
E : rotate (+ and – : change manipulator size)
R : scale
In W/E/R, hold MMB can move/ rotate/scale object
W + left click
E + left click
R + left click