Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:01:26 -0600 (CST)   -------------------
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>   jacobson@cs.uni.edu OKAY too.
     To: 810-088-11-fall@uni.edu                -------------------
Subject: Storyboard assignment due on Friday, quiz on Wednesday...

Hi Maya students,

      Your storyboard assignment is due on next Monday.  I said Friday 
today in class, but decided to make it be due one week from today
instead of on Friday.

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

         http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/wk13/3D/storyBoard.html

         http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/wk13/3D/emailStory.txt

Watch these two 3DBuzz video tutorials.  Item (LI = List Item) #6
on the web page
                http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/wk13/3D/storyBoard.html

         has the link and explanation of the reason for watching
         the two 3DBuzz tutorials.

Fundamentals Proj 1-1
       Overview of the Talented Ball   06:13
       Storyboards                     09:20

Your storyboard can be done with pen or pencil and paper. It does NOT have
   to be done with Photoshop or any graphics software or any word processor.

    Story board
        - Sequence of drawings with descriptions - note the 12 descriptions
          on the 1st image above (numbered in RED).
        - Story-based description

    The following example was shown in class today as another storyboard
        the led to the development of a ball that could have jumped over
        a wall, but just jumped high and landed not too far away (it was
        obviously NOT an Olympic looooooooooong jump - could have modeled
        more of a jump to do a basketball dunk by a talented ball).

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/wk14/pipePath/squeezeThruLattice.html

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/wk14/emailLatticeStoryboards.txt

    Quiz Seven on November Eleven will be over the last 8 days of class
    material, which means everything from November 2nd thru November 9th
    on the class web page:

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

    Today's (November 9th) class covered Inverse Kinematics, as did 
Friday's lab class.  We will continue with the IK lesson on Wednesday.

    We left off at Point Constraints and will continue Wednesday with 
Orient and Parent Constraints for the mechanical arm and cargo box it will 
lift and move to a cargo ramp.  It is easier to Rig a mechanical arm with
a skeleton and then animate it than it is to work with a model of a human 
arm (or King Kong's or Donald Duck's or a penguin's "arm").

    Mark