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Video tutorials and other VERY USEFUL resources from 3DBuzz, Wiley, Swinburne and Michael O'Rourke. |
The Syllabus and newer resources folder.
Class #1 review
Class #1 review has a link to Ohio State resource:
The Art of Maya PDF book
excerpt.
Vip email note
about F, A, Tumble, Track and Dolly.
Read pages 1 to 14 of
Wiley
Introduction to Maya book. Free sample chapter PDF.
* www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/class2.html...
* See the syllabus.
Spring 2017 Syllabus
- HAS THE 12 QUESTIONS HOMEWORK - Due on Tuesday, 1/17/2017
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Sun,
Earth, and Moon. Solar System subset.
Sun, Earth, Moon extensive details.
The Sun,
Earth, and Moon animation but they are CUBES.
Snapping
in Maya and the X, C, V shortcuts make it even
snappier.
Sun, Earth, Moon
to be done on Tuesday 1/17/17 in class #3
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Watch the relevant LYNDA
Maya Essentials
videos to review the MAYA interface of panels, menus, channel box,
Time Slider, etc.
Go to
http://lynda.uni.edu and login with
your UNI
CatID
and password/passphrase.
The Sun,
Earth, Moon suggestions as scanned in notes.
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Who takes Maya, why take Maya, what is Maya? 810:088 information. |
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Labor Day holiday
...no class!
Assignment: Modeling
a Wineglass - 12 questions on the Steven Murdoch video.
Due on Thursday 01/19/2017 before at 2 pm for the start of class.
Answers to the 12 questions.
Assignment due on Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
Modeling a Greek Temple
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Video (08:09)-
Modeling
a Wineglass using Polygons by Steven Murdoch. 8 minutes 9
seconds.
Assignment: Modeling
a Wineglass video 12 questions.
Due at the start of class #4 on Thursday 01/19!
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Video (08:09)-
Modeling
a Wineglass using Polygons by Steven Murdoch. 8 minutes 9
seconds.
Assignment DUE TODAY: Modeling
a Wineglass video answer 12 questions.
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VIP: NURBS modeling a chick - First
Maya assignment that was used in Spring 2013.
Due on 01/28/2016 Thursday, January 28th anytime.
Send as a .mb Maya Binary = .mb attachment to jacobson@cs.uni.edu
Subject: Chick Maya model
What we did in class yesterday to prepare
for the NURBS chick modeling: Model
of an ALIEN from the Friday class is good practice for
modeling any character, but especially for the CHICK assignment.
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Helpful Links to Getting Started
With Maya tutorials, wineglass using NURBS, etc.
TUESDAY 01/26 Chick: What the CHICK assignment might look like after
we duplicate special it, animate it and publish it on your web page.
Requires After Effects and Flash and early February
classes to learn Rendering the Maya, importing to After Effects,
rendering to Flash Video and publishing a Flash video application.
We will NOT do this until week #4 or #5.
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01/26/2016 - Review of today's class:
NURBS circle emitting particles - Dynamics menu set
in 2013 Maya is named FX menu set in Maya 2016.
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What if Sun, Earth and Moon were cube shaped?
See
orbiting
and rotating CUBES
example.
Rocket Exhaust
- Maya Dynamics particle emitters and color ramps.
We will try to do Rocket Exhaust in Thursday's class, if we have time.
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The Seven
Stages of the Animation Pipeline.
We have touched on only 3 of the 7 stages so far.
Maya
tutorials...
Light
It Up - Key light, Fill light, Rim light (KFR)
Three-Point lighting
for 3D Renderings by Jeremy Birn.
Playing chess with a PAWN.
Great lighting tutorial.
Tuesday 01/31 class
we did the SPOTLIGHT, which was the KEY light.
See FILL and RIM too..
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ASSIGNMENT
- Add three point lighting to your chick model.
- You will need to add a floor or ground, and perhaps a wall or building, so
that the lighting has something to hit besides the chick model.
- The instructions in the PAWN model tutorial should be all you need for background.
- LYNDA tutorial:
Lights
and Lightting Types in Maya by George Maestri.
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Particles, Active and Passive Rigid Bodies,
Gravity and Vortex Fields. Watch these two videos. Preparation for
making stage curtains sway.
3DBuzz
- The Talented Ball training videos. Videos 36
and 37 (out of about 61 free videos) are:
Intro to Dynamics and
Using Softbodies
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Assignment Talented Ball...
Thursday, Feb 16th due date
... by Saturday, Feb 18th is okay...
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Example of animated,
swaying curtains with a talented
ball
coming out on
the stage. Note the spotlight with the changing cone angle.
How were the 16 different pottery pieces or flower vases created?
Using
CV Curve tool to make a Profile Curve and Surfaces menu
REVOLVE
to revolve the curve around the Y axis. After that DUPLICATE SPECIAL.
We did this in class on Valentines Day eve eve eve (Monday).
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ASSIGNMENT TWO:
The Bouncing Ball animation....
Due anytime tomorrow (Thursday 02/12) or before
(** as an attachment sent to jacobson@cs.uni.edu
with SUBJECT: MAYA Assignment Two **)
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QUIZ
ONE Thursday, Feb 18th
See old study guides for Quiz 1 and Quiz 2 on this page!
QUIZ one week from today...
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Quiz #1 is on Thursday, February 18th:
VIP: QUIZ
ONE Study Guide/Topics/Outline
- Making an Egghead or Spongebob or
Alien or whatever creature/character you prefer using the Sculpt Geometry tool.
- Due on Thursday, February 19th.
- More on the
Sculpt Geometry tool and Sculpting NURBS surfaces.
- Link to and outline of the
Lesson 2: Sculpting a NURBS surface tutorial for Maya 2013.
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Emitters,
Particles, Color Ramps: Creating a Rocket
Exhaust.
User id: mayatuts
Password: morourke
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Particles
and Emitters effected by Gravity and Wind Fields and made to Collide
with the ground or floor.
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Coloring
particles with a COLOR RAMP. Seeing particles
shaped as SPHERES or as STREAKS and other options were explored for
the Particle Properties tutorial.
User id: mayatuts
Password: morourke
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