Week 4

 I spent Monday afternoon getting my model caught up and back to where I lost it all. I got back into the zone and everything was looking good. This time I was saving regularly and everything was going great. Looked at my phone to check the time - it's 2:56pm. I have 4 minutes to get to my tutorial and I live 13 minutes from campus. Great... After finding parking I was only 20 minutes late to class. Leo saw me setting up my laptop and asked me how I was going with it all. I must've had a look of pain in my eyes because he knelt down next to me and with a knowing look he just "Yeah....".  But it was a good opportunity to ask a few questions about Maya that I was having issues with. The second time going through the model has been a lot smoother.

I've also come up with a few things that make using Maya a little easier. My gaming mouse has lot of extra buttons and I programmed one them to be ALT. Now I can navigate around the screen with one hand and dry my tears with my free hand. 

I'm not sure where I went wrong but I started having the double extrude problem in the palm again. Leo showed me how to select the palm and merge in all to avoid the headache I had in Week 3. Everything is going good and I'm hoping to have this boy model done and dusted by the weekend. 

I think I've also decided what I want to do for my assessment task. I have been playing this game called Elden Ring with my geek mates and there is an object called a Stonesword Key Statue:

You stick a key in it and it gives you access to areas you might want to explore. I was going to make a miniature version you can stick a set of housekeys into and keep it by your door. I need to run it by Leo and see if how achievable he thinks it is with all the complex shapes and negative space. But if I can get it printed I'd like to make 3-4 of them and give them to my geek mates as a gift.