BLAAARGH! KEYS!

Damn activation keys.

My copy of Maya 6.5 arrived in the post today with everything...SO I THOUGHT.

Geez.... OK, so you have to enter one activation key which is fair enough. Storm FX were nice enough to email it through to me. Nice persons they are. ANyhoo, I put that in and it worked and said everything was A-OK and I had to close the window and re-open Maya then it'd work. MY ASS. It failed and said it needed a DIFFERENT key totally unrelated to the last, and I had to request it from Maya....I got it and it works. Now apparently I need another one to run the program FROM Alias VIA email and I have no idea how this is working. DAMNIT.

I rang StormFX and they havent yet got back to me.



Ok....enough ranting. I have had some ideas for the three photo-real images. I don't want to do OBJECTS like Hages said everyone does, but it is so easy to fall into that trap. Instead I am making basic scenes with at least more than one object. AT LEAST.

My first idea is to have POSSIBLY a pencil case...but thats simple. You know, with pencils spilling out of it and everything. Close up shot, nice depth of field...the render would make it look better that what it generally would.

Another idea was a potato peeler resting on a potato IN A KITCHEN....yeah... background blurred photo thing happening there.... I don't want to make a kitchen...I don;t know why people do in Maya.

My other idea was my guitar bridge really close up...it's complicated looking and has red wood + chrome...different textures.


OK: So these are really basic ideas which will probably change once I know what I can do with Maya... I am very new to this, so I hope something sexy pops out in the end.

Cheers.