Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:10:02 -0500 (CDT)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-088-12-summer@uni.edu
Subject: 4 students Maya projects available on sunny.uni.edu server now...

Hello students,

   http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/ae/wk7/MayaToFLVpublish.html

      is the URL:

   It also has links to the main help page for the publishing of last 
week's Maya scene:


http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/ae/wk7/render/MayaToFlashThruAfterEffects.html

    and a link to the new page from yesterday, which is a sampler of 
various Maya and After Effects and Flash ideas and a 30 second FLV video
produced from the AE Render Queue.

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/ae/wk8/July26thVEAMG.html

        Snowfall, Flash text animation, Flash Shape Tweening (Circle to
                  Square back to Circle morphing), Maya Squash and Stretch,
                  After Effects Text animation, After Effects Snowfall, etc.

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/ae/wk8/

    Today's (Monday July 27th) class covered:

         1. Shape Tweens in Flash
         2. Squash deformer in Maya

    Two "slimers" I helped students with today for publishing their Maya
                                         scene up to sunny.uni.edu were:

         1. You need to have the FLVPlayer component set to the Source
            file that you produced with After Effects record the fact
            that it is in the SAME FOLDER as your .fla Flash document is.
            BE SURE TO SAVE THE .FLA .fla Flash file BEFORE you set the
            source property of the FLVPLayer component to the FLV video
            file.  SAVE THE .FLA file in the same directory where you saved
            the .FLV file earlier (by render queue creating it from Adobe AE).

         2. Choose Name.#.ext format
                                     when you do the Render Settings in Maya.

            Name.ext.#
                       is no good and will NOT WORK!

              Good:  theProject.1.tga  to  theProject.200.tga  is A-OK!

               Bad:  theProject.tga.1  to  theProject.tga.200  is USELESS!

            Be sure to choose name.#.ext format!!!!

    ---------------------------------
    Lang 213 and Adobe After Effects:
    ---------------------------------

    I need to receive email from you if you want to try to come in before 
class by appointment to use Adobe After Effects in the Lang 213 lab
on Tuesday morning!  I will confirm the appointment with you and be there,
or notify you if a time will not work.

    After class on Tuesday should be okay for staying or making 
appointments for Tuesday afternoon, so you can talk to me during or after
class about that.

    Mark