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 2016 Syllabus - HAS THE 12 QUESTIONS HOMEWORK - Due on Tuesday, 1/19/2016

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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 continud on FRIDAY Class 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.

Labor Day holiday

...no class!

Video (08:09)- Modeling a Wineglass using Polygons by Steven Murdoch. 8 minutes 9 seconds.

Assignment: Modeling a Wineglass - 12 questions on the Steven Murdoch video.

Due on Thursday 01/21 before at 2 pm for the start of class. Answers to the 12 questions.

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Assignment: Modeling a Wineglass video 12 questions.
Due at the start of class #4 on Thursday 01/21!

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maya tutorials...

3DBuzz - The Talented Ball training videos. Videos 36 and 37 (out of about 61 free videos) are: Intro to Dynamics and Using Softbodies

Assignment Talented Ball...
Tuesday, Feb 16th due date

Quiz One outline/study guide.

QUIZ ONE will be Thursday, Feb 18th

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).

Study guide for old QUIZ TWO

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ASSIGNMENT TWO: The Bouncing Ball animation....

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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

QUIZ one week from today...

VIP: QUIZ ONE Study Guide/Topics/Outline

1. Making an Egghead or Spongebob or Alien or whatever creature/character you prefer using the Sculpt Geometry tool.

2. Due on Thursday, February 19th.

3. More on the Sculpt Geometry tool and Sculpting NURBS surfaces.

4. Link to and outline of the Lesson 2: Sculpting a NURBS surface tutorial for Maya 2013.

Emitters, Particles, Color Ramps: Creating a Rocket Exhaust.

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1. Particles and Emitters effected by Gravity and Wind Fields and made to Collide with the ground or floor.

2. Coloring particles with a COLOR RAMP. Seeing particles shaped as SPHERES or as STREAKS and other options were explored for the Particle Properties tutorial.

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