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Weeks 1 thru 2 readings, tutorials and assignment. |
Class #1
review
Vip email note review and links. |
NEW: Maya
2009 30 Day Trial download information and LINKS to obtain it. |
Class #2 PREVIEW/review Maya UI Overview, aka the fabulous
fourteen... |
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Class #3 preview/review. GRASSHOPPER.
Main
focus and resources for
3rd class.
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Spring 2009
SCC Hours
Maya will be in all of the SCC labs starting soon.
Watch here for when and where it is first available.
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Martin Luther King Holiday
no class |
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Class #4 preview/review
Assignment #1 collected.
Sun, Earth, Moon teaching example.
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Faster Lessons 2 thru 4
Temple tutorial lessons resource.
(Avoids download of BIG PDF).
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Class #5 preview is for
classes #5, #6, #7 and possibly even class #8.
Sun, Earth, Moon teaching example.
Class #5 Preview Maya Basics - Temple
tutorial lessons.
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Assign one due Wednesday.Pencil and paper exercises.
Assign two:
Survey questions
to REPLY to. Send to
jacobson@cs.uni.edu or REPLY
to note you got. Due: ASAP!
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Week #3 preview:
STUDY this page and WATCH these
videos.
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*** VIP *** Changed!
ITTC 134 StudioIT 1
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QUIZ ONE
WAS MOVED BACK ONE WEEK!
Library SCC has Maya as of 4:30 p.m.
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Maucker SCC has Maya ...
on all computers now.
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StudioIT 1
ITT 134 2nd floor laptop lab
Class #8 review.
Revolve and Extrude experience.
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QUIZ ONE NEXT Wednesday. |
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ITT 322 classroom class!!!
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VIP:
QUIZ ONE
Study Guide is now DONE.
You already have these as handouts from week #3.
Quiz One detailed
STUDY GUIDE
and outline of topics.
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StudioIT 1 ITT 134
EVERY FRIDAY
Wine Glass; Sun, Earth, Moon assignment;
Friday class review
email note.
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Review of Friday and Monday classes:
Luxo
Lamp and Wineglass... is also a PREVIEW of Wednesday's class.
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Assignment One due by 10 p.m.
as an email attachment to
jacobson@cs.uni.edu will
be the Sun, Earth, Moon scene file.
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Lighting and Lamps in Maya -
study the
Luxo
Lamp and Wineglass pages.
Pull back the CURTAINs and watch the 3DBuzz video
and also a
review
of Luxo Lamp classes.
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CURTAINS modeling
See the Feb 11th links! |
QUIZ TWO will be NEXT
Wednesday. |
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Class #15 review
Grouping, Parenting, SDK, Locators, Custom Attributes.
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Assign #2:
Sculpting due on Thu 02/26/09.
Pumpkin head, egghead, snowman or whatever
crazy sculpture you create.
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StudioIT 1 lab |
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ITT 322
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SCULPT FACES
review and answer to question about Egghead
eye socket coloring.
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Sculpture of
egghead, snowman, spongebob or carved pumpkin is due by 10 p.m.
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Dynamics menu set - PARTICLES.
Gravity, Wind, Collisions. Special Effects in Maya.
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28 Students Done: Egghead
sculptures as of 10:00 p.m. Thursday.
Note: 7 students works were added at 3 p.m. on
Friday afternoon. They are at the top of the
web page.
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ITT 322 classroom class. |
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Pool Table assignment.
You can get the pool table handout from ITTC 307 office door, or get it on
Friday if
you missed class today (March 4th).
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StudioIT 1 lab |
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ITT 322 classroom class. |
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Maya Quiz #3
WILL NOT BE GIVEN
until AFTER spring break.
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Answer to question about
Animating the "Cue Ball" to strike
the other pool ball or the racked up pool balls.
Pool Table Problem solution
for balls falling through the table as if it is NOT
a Passive Rigid Body.
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POOL TABLE
assignment due.
Pool Table assignment.
StudioIT 1 lab
Joints: Rigging Characters,
i.e.
Skeletons
and Kinematics in Maya.
Due to the pool table problems, the handout
for RIGGING was not ready. It will be handed out
on the Monday after SPRING BREAK!
The POOL TABLE problems
revisited. Please read THIS ALL carefully, if you are having trouble
still and trying to do the ROUND carved out pool ball pockets.
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Joints: Rigging Characters,
i.e.
Skeletons
and Kinematics in Maya.
VIP Group Exercise
Skeletons and Joints - Rigging Characters
Character Setup with the Joint tool
is done using the Animation menu set. |
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Rigging Reading Assignment and Review
of the March 25th class. Please read over this material BEFORE Friday's
StudioIT 1 hands-on class.
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StudioIT 1 lab
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LANG 213
COMPUTER LAB on Monday March 30th!!! |
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VIP:
Maya Assignment and class review
page for April Fool's Day class. Part of Quiz Study Guide too.
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StudioIT 1 lab
Review of class #32:
Per Particle Color Ramps,
Dynamics menu set, Maya Special Effects and practicing some
of the skills used in the Particle Fountain assignment.
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Quiz on Wednesday:
Study Guide and review of
particles and special effects with Color Ramps.
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QUIZ
Study Guide
Ideas for
open ended final
project from Fall 2008 student's final Maya projects.
Note: we should be able to publish the animations this spring, instead of
just rendering 2 or 3 or 4 frames to give an idea of the animation.
The Final
Project description and outline
from Fall 2008.
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Maya
Fountain Assignment due by 10 p.m.
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StudioIT 1 lab |
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LANG 213 COMPUTER LAB
Subtract 109 from 322 and what do you get?
213 Lang instead of 322 ITT today.
Building mathematics...
Maya to
After Effects to Flash rendered animation of the "Solar System".
3 moons with
Sun and
Earth spheres. Note the 3 colored faces on the "Earth" and the 2
extruded faces on the "Sun". This is to enable observation of the
rotation of each "planet" on its own axis.
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The SDK driven MAYA door up AE rendered
FLV
animation. AE = After Effects
Maya Final Project
These
eyes follow the movement of an
animated NURBS sphere. Constrain menu, Aim is the command that was used.
Study and read the Storyboarding
handout from Michael O'Rourke book.
Your final project story board is due Wednesday, April 22nd at 9 a.m.
in class.
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FLV = Flash video format
Maya Batch rendering to After Effects
After Effects Rendering to Flash Video
FLV to your sunny.uni.edu web site...
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StudioIT 1 lab
Ideas for
open ended final
project from Fall 2008 student's final Maya projects.
Note: we should be able to publish the animations this spring, instead of
just rendering 2 or 3 or 4 frames to give an idea of the animation.
The Final
Project description and outline
from Fall 2008, if you need ideas.
The Spring 2009 project is even more open ended, if that is possible.
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LANG 213 COMPUTER LAB on Monday
Animation
Curves, Graph Editors and Bouncing a Ball. Also the Render
Settings panel.
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Storyboard assignment and
brief preview of lattice deformers and path animation approaches
(to be covered on April 22nd - Gravity Day).
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Path
Animations and Lattice Deformations are two new techniques
demonstrated here.
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StudioIT 1 lab
Publishing a Maya animation:
Maya to After Effects to Flash
and then uploading to sunny.uni.edu web server.
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LANG 213 lab
Publishing a Maya animation:
Maya to After Effects to Flash
and then uploading to sunny.uni.edu web server.
animatedBall.mb Maya Scene file or
use the Week 15 folder.
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EXAM
Study
Guide for the Wednesday test.
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STUDIO IT 1
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10-11:50 a.m.
for
Final Exam period
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Student's Final Projects that I have
been
able to render
and get published as Flash video.
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Fly out of CR to Sacramento, California for wedding.
Back on Tuesday afternoon (May 12th).
Grades due at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13th.
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