Well after a year's worth of SimplyMaya challenge competitions (each runs over two months) I've managed to win one!
The challenge was to create an animation cycle (looping, e.g, a walk or run) and/or an animation sequence. First I tried to create my own animation rig for a walk cycle which is used to control your character. After a month it wasn't working too well so I switched to a free rig called Lowman (version 1.2) and started on a punch sequence using movie reference of myself punching into the air. After a long time getting the main areas animated I then went into the Maya graph editor and spent ages upon ages simplifying and smoothing off every part of the animation cycle.
I was really pleased with the final result and was surprised to win in the challenge. Anyway thanks to SimplyMaya for putting the challenges on and encouraging people to learn more about 3D :)
