Finding the Positive

[tealin]

I'm being a good citizen and learning CG at work ... I could make any number of pithy comments on it but the emphasis here is on good citizen, so I shall present you with the positive:

As CG lacks a gestural rough pass, as one does in 2D, there is no point in the process at which I must fully employ both left and right sides of my brain simultaneously, which means I can now listen to Radio 4 all the time. The immediately apparent benefits are that every morning will start with Eddie Mair and I will never miss another show again. The bigger picture, though, is this: Radio 4 is the happy drug that got me through several mind-numbing and existentially challenging productions in the past, international and domestic turmoil, emotional upheaval, deracination and homesickness, unemployment, chores, you name it ... as long as I have my aural narcotics I need never actually cope with anything ever again! Being stuck in a computer lab with twenty-eight copies of Maya is nothing!

I love you, Radio 4.

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Just animating. Thank goodness.

[putri-nih.livejournal.com]

TBH, modeling is the only thing in Maya I find relaxing. I find it harder to animate characters there.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I find it harder and more time-consuming to animate in Maya than on paper, with a poorer result, but that's what all the cool kids (i.e. 'employed people') are doing these days so what can I do?

[putri-nih.livejournal.com]

This wasn't like a "veiled" comment--um, I was just making a comment.

Not sure why I like modeling better. Maybe because i constantly fail at sculpture class (I took that optionally) because I'm not patient enough to tend to the clay and Maya's got an undo button?

I find animating in Maya frustrating mostly because there would be one point where it would be like, "You're breaking the rig." even though if I do the same thing in 2d it'd be fine. Usually at that point I gotta start again.