Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:00:09 -0600 (CST)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-088-11-fall@uni.edu
Subject: Final Maya Project question:

Hi 088 Maya students,

      Here is some clarification on the final project assignment you are 
already working on or will soon be starting on for the Maya class.

      Mark

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    Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 22:19:41 -0600 (CST)
    From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
      To: Jimi Hendrix <fenderStratocaster@uni.edu>
Subject: Re: Final Assignment

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Jimi Hendrix wrote:

> Hey Mark,
> 
> Just looking for the final project design specs on the website....
>  I couldn't find them....
>  Help!
>
>  Thanks
>  Jimi

Hello Jimi,

   http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/finalProjectStudiesSpr2009.pdf

          is all you really need to look at again.

    Every student has done the following last month:

       1. The Top Ten Ideas you liked or got from SPRING 2009 student
                                                              projects.
          Due date was Monday, November 9th.

          You looked at all of the SPRING 2008 student's final projects.

          They were all different, unique projects.

          Your final project is OPEN ENDED.

          It is what YOU want to do and try out in Maya.

       2. Your storyboard assignment was due on Monday, November 16th.

          http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/email088MayaNov9th2009.txt

          Your final project might be different than what you turned in
          for the storyboard.  But the storyboard you turned in 2 weeks
          and 2 days ago was your idea for a your possible Maya final
          project!

          Again, you are not tied to doing what you did in your storyboard.
          You can do something completely different.  Or you can add new
          things to your project as you think of ideas.  You can also
          leave out ideas you had on your storyboard too.

     So you have really been working on your final project already by
thinking of ideas you liked from Spring 2008 projects, and then later by
writing up a storyboard for an animation you wanted to possibly try as
your project.

      Mark

P.S.  Last spring the project included the requirements of having
       curtains open up and then some sort of show happening on the
       stage as a ball or whatever came out from behind the curtains.

       That is why most of the projects included curtains.  The curtains
       were supposed to SWAY, but not all students achieved that, as you
       have seen when you looked at all of the Spring 2009 projects.

       I told the students one year ago that they did NOT have to include
       swaying curtains, IF they included enough other challenging features
       to make up for the lack of animated, swaying curtains.  So Curtains
       are NOT required, IF YOU DO ENOUGH OTHER STUFF using Maya and really
       do not need curtains to get in the way.

      http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/email088MayaNov9th2009.txt

      http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/finalProjectStudiesSpr2009.pdf

      http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m

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On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Jimi Hendrix wrote:

> Hey Mark,
> 
> Just looking for the final project design specs on the website....
>  I couldn't find them....
>  Help!
>
>  Thanks
>  Jimi
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