Animation Woes
The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that Autodesk (the makers of many 3D animation softwares) must be in business with some medical arena selling carpal tunnel wrist braces and glasses. These programs seem positively designed to make you squint and make foolish repetitive motions with your wrist. When I had an arm in a sling for a bit a couple of years back, 3DsMax was the one program I never was able to drive left handed with any proficiency. Left click, right click, middle mouse click and drag while holding down the option key without letting go of anything, even though you have to move further than your arm can reach with one motion. All to reach that little tiny shape on the other side of your scene, you know, the one that you can barely see because you didn’t want it in the shot, so none of your lights are hitting it. It’s that slightly less black bit sitting in space over there. Yeah. Maybe I’m just bitter because my shots have been giving me grief here lately. But really, the more times you redo something, the more obvious the inherent flaws are. But hey, even if this was a sign of disaster for me the other day, isn’t it still kind of pretty!
