See and REVIEW the First Five Weeks classes calendar and resources.

 
   
 
 
Maya 3D graphics - Week 11 through week 15
March 27th through April 28th, 2017
Assignments, readings, watchings, quiz schedule

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Week 11 Mar 27   Mar 29   Mar 31  


Animating the Set (curtains, door, etc. and LIGHTS - notes from 3DBuzz tutorials.


The 3DBuzz Talented Ball video tutorials...

Lights and Batch Rendering Lynda Lights and Rendering video lessons.

Animation - Lesson 4: Inverse Kinematics was done today in class.

We got through about half of it. We made it to Creating a control object for an IK system.

The Getting Started With Maya file: IK_MechArm.mb to use...

Assignment: Do the entire Lesson 4: Inverse Kinematics lesson. When done, send the .mb Maya file to jacobson@cs.uni.edu as an attachment. Two PLAYBLAST examples of the animation done today (Thursday 3/30) in class.

Example 1 ...

Example 2 ...

 
Week 12 Apr 03   Apr 05   Apr 07  
Maya Essentials 6: Lights and Rendering
1 hr 52 minutes.
Advanced Rendering with mental ray
Animating Cartoon Characters in Maya

Spend lots of time experimenting in RIG OVERVIEW.

Do up through WORKING OUT THE BASIC TIMING.

Watch the first TEN minutes of Animating Cartoon Characters in Maya to review today's class.

Use the EXERCISE FILES.

Highlights of Chapter 1: Animating a Cartoon Walk
Watch Blocking out footsteps BEFORE CLASS!

LIGHTS: Creating Reflections and Refractions using Mental Ray Rendering. 6 min 19 sec video. Watch it BEFORE CLASS!



Three-Point lighting for 3D Renderings by Jeremy Birn.

Playing chess with a well-lit PAWN. Great lighting tutorial.

 
Week 13 Apr 10   Apr 12   Apr 14  
  Time Remapping with After Effects.
Spotting hit points in time.
Keyframing time.
The Milk Drop movie is the only footage you need.
From After Effects Apprentice: Time Remapping PDF...

More After Effects and Time resources.

Milk Drop 
rendered with
H.264 = 12 MB

Milk Drop 
rendered with 
AVI DV NTCS 
     = 123 MB
Batch Rendering in Maya.

Rendering/Lights/Shadows Study questions: rendering.txt...

 
Week 14 Apr 17   Apr 19   Apr 21  
  Getting Started in 3D with Maya...

Particles MAYA 2016 SLIMER solution!
FX: Legacy Particles are available in Maya 2016...

 
 
Week 15 Apr 24   Apr 26   Apr 28  
     
 
 
 
     

Final Exam week period schedule and plan ...