Animation Major - Week 12

An interesting week. While the desire to defect back to 2-D for my major animation grows ever stronger, the odd shortcut or interesting factoid pops up that reaffirms my decision to use Maya. Currently I'm attempting to block the background for my animation. With just a plain ice field, two mountains and a sunset plastered on a spherical wrap around the ice to create some depth, it doesn't seem at all complicated to get the layout of the characters and environment nailed down before the end of the semester. Adrian helped with a minor issue regarding my penguin model's problem with a caving in tummy. Now he can bed forward without creating a hole in his gut. I have high hopes for modelling the robot, as he is designed to be as Maya friendly as possible, with numerous hidden joints and no neck. Perhaps I might just pull this off, stranger things have happened to me.