animation mentor:102 pose, issues with maya on macbook

i posed stu (the character rig that animation mentor provided) to match the sketch.

i moved the camera the tiniest bit to her right to get a better angle. i rendered in mental ray following a tutorial that one of the students had posted on the forums.

i had some issues running maya 2009 on my white plastic macbook, but things seem to be okay for now.at first, maya kept crashing after only a few minutes of use. the technical support at autodesk told me the integrated video card that came with the macbook isn’t powerful enough to handle maya.

someone on the animation mentor forums suggested i try installing windows on my macbook and running maya from windows. i freed up some space on my hard drive to install xp, but i happened to open maya on os x and for some reason, now maya seems to be running with no problems.

we’ll see how long it lasts. if i run into more problems, i’ll try the windows thing, and if that doesn’t work, i might have to upgrade to a macbook pro.