Tracking in Matchmover

assignment: work in a group to gather footage to use in a Matchmoving exercise.
There is NO homework over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Your group must gather the following types of shots:

locked shot

pan

tilt

track

truck

follow

zoom

dolly zoom

Rigging and Skinning

assignment:

Skin a model to a skeleton and animate 5 seconds.

OR

Use a pre-rigged model and animate 30 seconds.

Due  TUESDAY!.

Animation

Assignment: animate something. Demonstrate at least 2 of the following principles of animation:

Squash and stretch

Anticipation

Staging

Straight ahead action and pose to pose

Follow through and overlapping action

Slow in and slow out

Arcs

Secondary action

Timing

Exaggeration

Solid drawing

Appeal

Your final animation must have materials and be lit!  Post a VIDEO to your blog with an explanation of your process.

Due Thursday, Nov 17th.

Space Island

Running into render View not found error?

See this article

http://3dg.me/3d-graphics/maya/fix-for-maya-2012-error-setparent-object-renderview-not-found

mel script:

$exists=0;
 for ($item in `getPanel -scriptType "renderWindowPanel"`) {
  if ( $item == "renderView" ) {
   print "renderView exists.\n";
   $exists=1;
  }
 }
 if ( $exists == 0 ) {
  for ($item in `getPanel -scriptType "renderWindowPanel"`) {
   //print ( $item + "\n");
   if ( $item == "renderWindowPanel1" ) {
   deleteUI renderWindowPanel1;
   $renderPanel = `scriptedPanel -type "renderWindowPanel" -unParent renderView`;
   scriptedPanel -e -label `interToUI $renderPanel` $renderPanel;
   }
  }
 }