| FIRST FIVE WEEKS classes! |
| Maya - Week 10 through week
15
April 1st through May 3rd, 2013
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| Assignments, readings,
watchings, quiz schedule GO - BACK to look at the first five weeks (Jan/Feb) calendar/classes... GO - BACK to the Second Five Weeks classes calendar and resources. |
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| Week 11 | Apr 01 | Apr 03 | Apr 05 | |||
| MEL CONE code... |
Sculpting
NURBS Geometry
is due. SEND AN ATTACHMENT OF YOUR SCENE FILE when done.
Jellyfish scene: Nonlinear DeformersWave, Squash and Stretch, Twist. Also, the Jiggle deformer.
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Nonlinear Deformers video's and PDFs: lynda.uni.edu, 3DBuzz and the talented ball, and Michael O'Rourke. Also review of using the graph editor to fine tune an animation to give a character (the talented ball) some personality and life and skill. | ||||
| Week 12 | Apr 08 | Apr 10 | Apr 12 | |||
| Block Man animation of a walk cycle... | Rigging and Skeletons... We played with block_man_v01.mb and block_man_v02.mb and did pick walking (up and down the joints in a joint hierarchy using the up and down arrow keys). |
Review of Mon 04/10, Preview of Wed 04/11
Review of Skeletons, Joints, Skinning: Block Man, Rigging, the joint tool, Forward and Inverse Kinematics. |
Inverse Kinematics animation of joint tool created skeletons. | |||
| Week 13 | Apr 15 | Apr 17 | Apr 19 | |||
| Week 14 | Apr 22 | Apr 24 | Apr 26 | |||
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Handout
and highlights of the
Sun, Earth, Moon review session.
Solar System subset (from Week 04 - Feb 06) What if the Sun, Earth, and Moon were CUBES instead of SPHERES? |
If this were an Olympic tryout to make a qualifying time, how would knowing X help you have a better Sun, Earth, Moon time? ... and qualify or be more qualified than the applicant who did NOT know X and wasn't quite as snappy. |
Quiz #5Study/Practice Guide...
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Going over game film:
Review of Friday's Star, Planet, Moon quiz...Study this if you had trouble! |
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| Week 15 | Apr 29 | May 01 | May 03 | |||
Final Exam study guide. |
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