Computer Animation Arts

I have been having a strange problem where when I scrub through the timeline maya crashes. The file seems to work for a little while if I save it as a .MA file but only temporarily. Can you tell me why its happening ? Also sorry about not replying to your comment on the 6th of December I only saw it yesterday ~

I noticed that my uca has not been updated to show our new timetables for weeks 6 - 12. Does anyone know what our times are for this coming monday (29th Oct) ? Thank You

@Alan: Vimeo is playing up, and only on my OS (out of the three household computers only mine is affected and I cannot view any of the videos on the CG tut’s blog). I don’t understand. When I want to watch a Maya tutorial the video doesn’t respond and only flickers. After 10 seconds of no activity, the video disappears to black and I all get is a "Oops! Something broke try again later...". Only recently after I finished one of the tutorials, all was well. EDIT: This actually affects all Vimeo videos. I can’t watch any of them. Any suggestions? Is it a browser issue (I’ve already tried IE, Firefox and Chrome and that is not working), cookies, new flash update that I’ve missed? I’m using a Windows XP professional 64 bit OS + adobe flash player no longer supports it, they have released a new update. New OS for me? Have they brought the service down for maintenance? Though this wouldn’t make any sense as the videos are playing on the other two computers..., But then the other tw...

Hay guys. Im trying to take photo's of my life drawing but keep getting shadows all over it and look horid. tryed having lights on and off yet still getting these shadows. Anyone got any tips on how they have taken there photos and how to avoid making it look horid? Thanks

Hi there, Josh Etienne here. I have a DSLR (Digital Single Reflex Lens) camera that is very nice for taking pictures. If you need any taken, contact me via my blog. Joshua Ettiene @ http://joshuaetienne.blogspot.com/ I understand that this may seem like a bit of effort to anyone outside Uni accommodation, maybe even unnecessary to people, just that if anyone wants help (and a picture above 2MP), it's there.

Hi Guys, I posted on my blog yesterday hoping for answers, then realised I should have posted it here; Hey everyone, I've spent most of today trying to figure out why Mental Ray leaves blotches all over my renders? I've been using my very basic pre-vis block models for the rendering, just to work out how the lighting will play out. (Image Below)

The rigs are done and all was going fairly well until I get to the final stage. When I create blendshapes I first had the annoying "Row 1" problem that occurs in 2011 but after fixing that the next problem arises. After I apply a blendshape, the head moves back ever so slightly, and it's a big problems considering so much of my animation is close up facial animation. Here are images of the head before and after, its difficult to see but the head moves backwards ever so slightly. All the inputs are in the correct order so does anybody know how to fix this. Thank you.

I rigged and skinned character in different Maya projects. How to attach/connect/merge them together. I couldn't find an answer from google. Perhaps I asked wrong questions. This question mainly to Alan, but if anyone knows the answer, please help. Thanks.

I was about to post asking if anyone knows of this error in Maya and knows of a fix, but instead I 'Googled' it. If ever you get this error, simply do the following; Windows - Settings & Preferences > Preferences. The find the 'Undo' tab on the left hand side, there you can find the On and Off settings. (Tip: You can also set how big the queue can get, I think some how, it's useful to set it to unlimited, but be wary of your memory usage and file sizes. :) ) -Dan. EDIT: Apparently Maya randomly decides to shut down the "Undo" script if memory gets to scarce or something, another quick fix is to go into the mel window, and type; flushUndo; and place that shortcut onto your Shelf.

What could be the reason Maya doesn't show image planes.. I tried to go into image plane nodes and relode the image, reset settings and preferences delete any old image planes The thing is it still shows images loaded weeks ago, but not the ones just being loaded .. Such a simple but frustrating problem :/

This is pretty random but I thought I'd give it a go. From my major project I’ve been doing some research into time travel and interstellar travel and its led me onto wormholes. I watched a film probably a good few years ago and I can remember a scene in the film where there was some huge machine that dropped a metallic sphere (with an astronaut in) through some kind of energy field or wormhole in order to try and travel to some other universe or something. I remember that in the main character (think she was a blond lady) was someone working at an observatory or satellite centre or something like that and they intercepted strange noises or something from space or somehow got video footage beamed back to them (possibly with Hitler in it) or something like that and it was interlaced with instructions on how to build a machine to travel through the time space continuum or something. Then in the film the Americans build one of these machines and while it was being used some li...