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My name is Paul Greer, I work full time at BDH, making computer animation for the telly.
This is my main blog with news, work updates, new drawings, stories, comics, notebook pages, how tos, animations and link dumps. My more impulsive internet scrapbook is here.
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27th November 2014

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Hi. Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet. My Mum passed away yesterday. She had two massive heart attacks whilst visiting South Shields on the 15th and never regained consciousness. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks with my dad, looking after each other. We were by her side when she passed and she went peacefully.

We would like to thank the extraordinary staff at the ITU Ward South Tyneside District Hospital for their compassion and dedication and the people of the Little Haven Hotel for making a very difficult time as easy as possible.

The picture above is of South Shields harbour. I took it just before we went back to the hospital to say our last goodbyes.

Also thank to everyone for your messages of support and sympathy they are very much appreciated.

I’m on my way back to Bristol today (27th November). Speak soon.

Paul x

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“AEGP Plugin MayaImport: Error reading Maya file. ( 5027 :: 12 )”

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One of the splendours of using After Effects and Maya together is being able to import cameras from one to the other.

I use this feature a lot and then the issue came with a scene I just working on. I tried many different things and eventually realised it was the scene that was triggering the problem. I wondered if it had picked up a glitch that AE didn’t like.

So my fix was, To make a new fresh scene, import the previously exported camera (the one AE refused) then to export it again from there. Then it worked.

EDIT: Ensure that the correct resolution is set in the render settings and the camera focal length also matches the original camera.