Maya Training

This week was the Maya training week. Maya is software used by professional to animate and model in 3D. It used by many industries for adverts and even in Hollywood movies.

This was my first time I used Maya. It was difficult to use but I found it interesting. I wish there was more training and more time to fiddle about with Maya. The first 3D model I produced for the training was a Intel logo. Just like the advert, the writing will move around.

My next aim will be to teach myself 3D Max. Apparently that is used by interactive media industry.

Digital Story - Done!

Its Friday, just finished my 2 minute digital story telling. Found Adobe Premiere quite awkward to use.

My 2-minute video is about my education and me. It is about how I struggled with education with having learning difficulty and not having a hope of entering university.

Introduction to Digital Story

This week is digital story telling week. We must produce a 2-minute digital story using photos/images and voice over. Looking forward to it.

We had been given some helpful tips by a guest from BBC into how to go on about digital story telling. The tools I will be using to do my digital story telling are:

• Adobe Premiere - To produce transition between images and to combine both audio & images
• Adobe PhotoShop - To edit images/photos

Visit to BBC

Yesterday we visited BBC. We were given presentation by the following:

* Team leader
* Education & project manager
* Developer
* Graphic designer

It was interesting to learn what BBC's new media departed is like, and the job roles etc

PhotoShop Introduction & S4C

Had introduction into PhotoShop by Ben. Really enjoyed the introduction, learned new PhotoShop tools which I had not previously used before. I got some previous experience in using PhotoShop and love editing images.

Later on the day we visited S4C to talk to people in interactive media department. It was interesting experience of talking to people in S4C about job roles and types of project they get involved in.