Class #1 review

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.

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

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.

Labor Day holiday

...no class!

The Sun, Earth, and Moon animation but they are CUBES.

Sun, Earth, Moon cannot be SPHERES!

Sun, Earth, Moon due one week from today on 09/13/13 Friday by 9 p.m.

Send as attachment to jacobson@cs.uni.edu with
Subject: Maya Assignment

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

VIP: First Maya assignment that was used in Spring 2013.
This is NOT assigned for Fall 2013!

Sun, Earth, Moon cannot be SPHERES!

See orbiting and rotating CUBES example.

How to DO IT, step by step: Sun, Earth, and Moon.

The Bouncing Ball animation....

Sun, Earth, Moon due by 9 p.m.

1. Bouncing Ball .mb (Maya Binary) from Wednesday class.
2. Freeze Transformations.
3. Graph Editor.
4. Pivot Points (Axis). D and X, D and V.

QUIZ ONE on WEDNESDAY September 18th.

OLD QUIZ ONE STUDY GUIDE

2009 Class #1 review

2009 Class #2 review

Maya tutorials...

Getting Started with Maya
  Maya Basics
Lesson 2: 
 Creating, Manipulating, 
       and viewing objects
 Making the base of the temple...

Lesson 3: Viewing the Maya 3D scene
 Creating the 8 columns 
      of the temple.
Capital, Shaft,     Base,  and  Pedestal
Cube     Cylinder,  Sphere and  Cube

 User id:  mayatuts
Password:  morourke

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.

 User id:  mayatuts
Password:  morourke

RAIN tutorial has username mayatuts and password morourke for access.

Particles, Emitters, Fields (GRAVITY and WIND) were covered in today's class. The class was a review of Friday's hands-on lab class. Making particles COLLIDE with the ground or floor was covered too.

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).

QUIZ TWO

The Bouncing Ball animation....

Due anytime today (as an attachment sent to jacobson@cs.uni.edu with SUBJECT: MAYA Assignment Two)

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

Study guide for QUIZ TWO, which is on MONDAY, February 18th.

Study guide for QUIZ TWO