Week 1

Project Idea :

Man on the Moon: ("ROUGH")

My animation follows a little alien who wakes ups on a space station. we see a bit of his morning routine before he heads up a lift. At the top of the lift he it opens and we realize he is on the moon.
He hops out the elevator and bounces across to a huge switch. as he pulls the switch the moon lights up and he's job is done.


Keyboard Short Cuts:
Q:  Selection Tool
W: Move
E: Rotate
R: Scale
D: Manually Change origin point
Ctrl+D: Duplicate Object
F: Frame Up
Ctrl+G: Group Object
Ctrl+H: Display Hide
Shift+H: Show selection
B: grab mode
<+>: grow/shrink
Space: view camera angles

Tools in Maya :

Notable tools and views:

Extrude tool: 
allows you to pull out or push in a face of the object. in the example below i have extruded the top face of the cylinder inward to create the mugs shape.

Wire Framed mode:
Wired frame view makes object transparent but leaves the edges and vertices.

Smoothed object with wired frame.:

Views:
"Space bar"
 

Out liner:

Playing around with bridging tool:
making a funny alien head.