This week was an important one in the process of developing skills in maya we began the week my creating a wine glass and vase, this helped a-lot with beginning to understand the process of colouring and texturing different objects and working with camera lights in order to give them a reflection and create a sense of realism within what we were making.
We then began to construct our hot air balloons, i had some issues with my computer this day as it kept crashing although this actually reinforced my abilities in how to use the curve tool as it meant i had to redo my work and forced me to get better at saving consistently. It gave me an insight in to the sensitivity of the programs that we are using and by the end of the lesson i had built the balloon three times and was able to do the process of by heart and actually have a better understanding of it.
Further into the week i took the free time in EC11 to work on my hot air balloon as i followed the recorded tutorial that nick had done. this allowed me to catch up on where i was behind and develop my hot air balloon in to a more complex shape.