Computer Animation Arts

Hey all, The big news today is that the encrypted information of 6 million LinkedIn accounts have been posted on a Russian hacker forum, worryingly it seems the hackers have compromised the encryption and are posting passwords online! The suggestion is that you change your passwords immediately and also for any other website account which uses the same password. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9314843/LinkedIn-users-should-change-password-immediately-warns-data-security-expert.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18338956

I've just been told that we have to be in at 11 tomorrow to see the examiner. Is that just people who have gotten email (via myuca) or everyone; as it seems I have not received an email.

"After 72 years of tackling supervillains as a straight man, DC Comics's magical-ring-wearing superhero the Green Lantern, one of the publisher's oldest and most established characters, is set to be reintroduced as gay."    The Guardian Yes, after much speculation that Batman was about to disclose his real feelings for Robin, or that it was more than just her Jetplane Wonder Woman was keeping invisible, it's DC's Alan Scott who is putting the green colour into the rainbow flag of the LGBT community.  Yes - the Green Lantern has turned pink, but he's not  unique in terms of gay superheroes.  In the Marvel universe, X-man Northstar just married his boyfriend in a superhero gay-wedding , and way back in 2006, Batwoman aka Katherine Kane came out as a lesbian.    Inevitably, not everyone is happy at this queering of the superhumans' patch.  The Christian mothers group One Million Moms responded, "Why do adul...

When I try to playblast animations in Maya, the videos all look fine however, when uploading them to Youtube, they all like the one above. I've tried changing different settings but I am still having the same problem. It's probably something really obvious that I'm forgetting, but does anyone have any ideas what is wrong?

The stage in the tutorial where it says to do; Edit Deformers : Wire : show Base Wire This error comes up. I've been googling for a solution for hours and I can't seem to get around it. Tried opening a fresh scene and importing this one in, renaming the scene, selecting individual objects to see if it's just a particular piece that has the error, renaming the curves.... quite a few things but still the error comes up. Any Ideas?

From this weekend's The Guardian - plain-speaking advice for graduates ...

A note - I have a tablet that I haven't yet returned. If there's one missing it's this one, and I'll get it back to the University some time this or next week.