Calendar
Posted by jrober28 on January 8th, 2009
Week (1-10) Calendar
Week 1 - Work calendar for the quarter
Work 2- Research for thesis
Week 3 - Research for thesis
Week 4 - First outline
When to see Kenneth Huff to discuss my thesis idea
He recommended a few ways in witch I might approach constructing my tool,
He also recommended a few books that might be helpful
Complete Maya
Programming (volumes 1 and 2) by David Gould.
He was all so kind enough to send me a link to his blog where he maintains a list of technical resources
http://www.kennethahuff.com/blog/2008/12/31/some-technical-resources/
due to reasons witch I will not mention on this blog I was on able to attend class on Thursday and was outside of the US over the weekend.
Week 5 - Second outline
It is now Tuesday week 5 and I have yet to receive a reply from Maya to my e-mail I am hoping that I might receive a reply this week but in hopes of speeding up the process I am enlisting the help of professor Malcolm
While doing this I am continuing to revise my Outline and research my thesis
Also the books that were suggested to me by Kenneth Huff are now on order.
Lesson learned after debate
Although this tool is accentually an animation plugging intended to aid animators in the correction of
common animation problems it is also important to note that because its simple interface witch will make it easy to understand and its ease of use, its can be used by just about anyone. Also the technical side of building this tool, witch will involve the use of scripting language such as MELL and Python and also the use of complex mathematics such as Vector base math in my opinion makes this tool applicable to my field of Visual Effects.
Week 6 - Research for thesis
Week 7 - Research for thesis
After an almost 2 week wait I finally received the book I ordered
Complete Maya Programming I & II and I have began reading the first book
Week 8 – Third outline
Read the first 2 chapters of Complete Maya Programming and write a brief summery of what I read no less that a page no more than 2 gapes
Use the summery to enhance my thesis out line
Week 9 – Begin writing Thesis
First Page Draft
Week 10- Continue Writing