"Out of Commision"

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Cashier Doodle

A quick doodle of what happened yesterday. My cashier buddy and I were honestly more amused than anything.
#cashierlife #cashierdoodle

Brainstorm Doodles

No beautiful drawings. Just brainstorm sketches in hopes to put in some thinking (& story?) in the last Cartoony Animation assignment.

Alto’s Adventure

Been playing a lot of Alto's Adventure recently. Going to recommend this to everyone. It's quite zen and beautiful.   #altosadventure

(One method) of recovering lost animation data on maya

I just experienced an incredibly scary hour of lost animation data. All my work on a referenced character was gone.
BUT!! Luckily, I wasn't the only person in the world that had that this happen to her. And with some desperate searching I was able to eventually recover the lost animation.

Just wanted to share the recovery process in case anyone else experiences it too.
(1) Download and install a plug-in called AnimDataRecovery (https://www.highend3d.com/maya/script/animation-data-recovery-mel-for-maya)
(2) Open the plug-in
(3) Select the ctrls/object you want to recover
(4) and hit the "Restore Animation" button

The animation data technically isn't gone. The connection between the animation node and controller object was just severed for one reason or another; and this script helps re-connect it.

One other things to note//
- don't delete the Namespace of your referenced file. It's another fabulous way to lose data /sever connections. Maya just resets the namespace back in when you close/re-open the scene file.
(... and please don't ask why I thought it was a good idea in the first place... just...just don't... too embarrassed right now...)

Alrighty! Knowledge is power! Hope it saves someone's headache, if they fall into this scary situation.

DinoSlapFight 11 03 16

Another month... So another update on what I have so far on the DinoSlapFight!

With a temporary Jurassic Park soundtrack in the background for kicks :)

From Rusty Gray's Memorable Animator course.

Therefore/But Story Breakdown:

TRex2 is hungry and -therefore- wants TRex1’s food -but- TRex1 does not want to share -therefore- there is a challenge stare-off, and an unavoidable epic (slap) fight.

TREX rig by Joel3d (joel3d.com/Trex2.html)

There is a free skeleton version here: joel3d.com/TrexSkeleton2ByJoel3d.html

IREX rig is by Truong (gumroad.com/l/irexrig)

BG music is from the Jurassic Park soundtrack

UE4 Practice_BasicManIdleAndRun

After much txting, emailing, and Skyping with a friend (who was so awesomely cool and willing to help), got my first simple idle and run animation in UE4!!! https://vimeo.com/168546138
Now...did I retain everything that was taught to me? .............. that's not the point! Let's focus and the first successful maya to UE transfer!