Lighting and Cameras

assignment:

light your textured model

must have shadows!

innovate and be creative!

post (at least) 3 renders

chronicle your genius

Materials and Surfacing

Assignment:

add materials to your robot or create new geometry (environment for your robot?) and apply materials

must use at least one texture map (diffuse texture, bump map, transparency map)

create a skysphere around your scene and add a texture(panorama) to it


use Paint Effects (grass, etc)

post to 3 renders to blog

2D shapes, curves, surfaces, revolve, extrude and loft

Drawing, Tracing, Loft, Lathe, Extrude, Booleans

Assignment -- 5 parts

1.) Boolean some primitive objects together

using curves, paths and shapes:

2.) make a 2d shape planar (logo)

3.) revolve a curve (cylindrical buildings, candle sticks, pots, urns, rockets, etc.)

4.) extrude a closed shape along a path (block text, tree roots, curved walls, tentacles, etc)

5.) loft 2 or more curves to create a surface (organic, topographic map, technical)



create blog post and post renders (at least 5--one of each operation)

Bonus:   Can you combine all the techniques into a single composition.

i.e. Add some details to your robot

Maya : Primitives and Basic Transforms

Assignment:  Due NEXT Thursday, beginning of class

Build a robot in MAYA using primitives and basic transforms

create a new blog post:

 tell me about your process, include any concept art and, of course...

post (at least) 3 renders of your robot:

different angles...show it off!

Next Week: 

Drawing, Tracing, Loft, Lathe, Extrude, Booleans

research it!