Various projects all at once!!!!

Summer!

I havnt blogged in a long time, mainly because id rather get on with what im dooing workwise, but over the summer I have been spending a lot of time working on many things. One of the first things i started to do was learn more stuff in maya, after i got an updated version of Maya, i decided it was time for learning as much as possible, stuff like dynamics, liquids, particles, all the special effects side of things. My main intension was to try and make a realistic explosion, but from a '3d world' magazine i found out in order to that it involves using combing software and maya, which sounded complicated. I manage to get this software, it is called 'Houdini 8.1', its a fantasic piece of kit, designed mainly for dynamics etc, however i havnt managed to work out how to bring maya scenes into it yet, and also i realy need to understand the interface of it as well,lol. I have tried loads of other various 3d aplications and it really baffles me, cause they all kind of have a similar work flow. Maya is the unique one, so im pretty anoyed cause of this, im gunna try n learn as many as poss. Anyway, it has been a while now since i have experimented with these, and i thort it wud be usefull if i actually got some work done, rather than mesing around, it just might have been a waste of time, ah well. So after this i decided to create some kind of interactive portfolio, that was designed to be done in flash, all done in maya, then renderd out as seperate frames, that is still an ongoing project, in fact to tel you the truth i have a few projects on at the same time, when i get sick of one, i go to the other. Also im working on a ww1 based horror, again done in 3d and combining with live action.
The most important thing of course is my tomato sauce re-working project, i decided at the start of the summer hols, i shud re-animate bits i didnt get chance to do and make it better and hopefully submit it to a animation festival. But unluckily i missed the deadline, so am hoping to submit it to other abnimation festivals. I didnt realise how close the deadline was, so was just unlucky. Hopefully when i finish all my elemnts off, im gunna compile it all in after effects and then add a music score, with a little help hopefully, from my sister, who is good at that sort of stuff. Its gunna be like a mock of a trailer of some film, good vs evil sort of thing. I neeeeed to get on with it. Seee you all laterxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.