If you use Maya 2009, here is the service pack 1 released from autodesk website.?Autodesk Maya 2009 Service Pack 1 includes over 100 fixes for Autodesk Maya 2009 across several functional areas, including: Rendering, Assets, Animation and Rigging, Dynamics and Effects, Modeling, Python scripting and API.
Posted from 3dworld magazine website. “Late last year, Autodesk released a 30-day trial version of Maya 2009 and removed the free Personal Learning Edition, which enables you to use Maya without a time limit while imposing other restrictions, including adding a watermark to renders, from its website.
Maya PLE?s disappearance has been a hot potato since then: 3D World, among other venues, has received emails and forum posts protesting the move.
We?ve now received word via one of Autodesk?s PR reps that the removal of Maya PLE was a mistake made when the 30-day trial was posted, and that it should be re-appearing on the Autodesk website soon. Good news all round.”
“Posing a character on the computer takes way too much time because of all the controls that have to be manipulated, I find that I can draw and animate a simple stick figure inside of FlipBook to represent my character and solve the performance in real time. When I’m happy with my performance then I can bring my FlipBook images into Maya as an ImagePlane and use them for reference for my CG version. All the directors love this way of working because they get to see a blue print of the shot very quickly instead of seeing a weird CG blocking pass with floaty computer in-betweens.”
said by Jason Ryan, Supervising Animator, Walt Disney Animation Studio
Let’s see how he can create nice animation, very simple and very fast.
