Captain we have a problem!

I love nodes. I say this because at last I have learnt how to use them without being told.

In the alien model that I have just finished I wanted the eyes to focus. Being new to all of this I had no clue. Then while watching a video on rigging (which was completely off topic on rigging the eye focus) it hit me.

It was a simple link up. First I made a new attribute in the Alien control called eye focus. Basicly I linked (using connection editor) it up to the ramp that controled the eye. When I first did this it was very hard to control so I made a few changes and this time using nodes. I grabbed a set range node and gave myself a buffer for easier control.

What a great feeling. Working out how to do something with things that just sounded scarey for a long time. We were first introducted to nodes with a few hours of video. For that we had to complete an assignment just using nodes. I completed this but I still felt that I was unsure what I was doing. Next, we built the earth and here we used more nodes. Slowly I was starting to understand them. Now after rigging this very simple eye focus I love playing with them. Great, great feeling.

I am off to complete some animatics today. This is where you make a little video of what your scene should look like using stand in objects. It is a quick dirty way of testing the scene.

That's all folks.