Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:28:05 -0500 (CDT)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-088-11-spring@uni.edu
Subject: Storyboard - questions.  Final project - see Fall 2008 examples...


     1. Storyboard - two questions about it.

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

     2. Final project - see Fall 2008 examples...

          http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/f/


Hello Maya students,

    Please look at this web page again.  I added an example storyboard.

    Also, if you look at the Fall of 2008 final projects, you will see
          most of them are quite simple.  A ball does something
          interesting after the curtains open.

    What does the ball do?  That can be very simple!

    Does it have to be a ball?  No.

    Have you looked at the projects from the fall of 2008 Maya class?

       All that most of them did was have a curtain that opened
       up and showed some sort of very simple animation involving a
       talented animated ball.

    PLEASE: Look at the projects from FALL of 1968 class for ideas.

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 The STORY - The talented ball comes out from behind the curtains
                     and jumps over a short wall barrier or a hurdle of
                     some sort and then goes behind the curtains again,
                     after which they close.

 1.  The curtains are closed.

 2.  The curtains open up, and they have a sway effect when they reach
     the fully opened state as taught by the 3DBuzz tutorials and
     demonstrated in class.

 3.  A ball is observed on the stage, and now it rolls out from behind
     the curtains to the front of the stage.

     A barrier or hurdle of some sort comes out on the stage either
     right before or right after the ball rolls out.

 4.  The ball squashes and stretches twice or perhaps three times in
     Anticipation of jumping over the "wall" hurdle.

 5.  The ball jumps over the "wall" and lands on the other side.

 6.  The ball rolls back behind the curtain.

 7.  The wall barrier the ball jumped over moves back behind the curtain.

 8.  The curtains close.
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End of story board.  Will all of these ideas be in the final project?
                     Answer:  No.

                     Will the final project differ in many ways from your
                     initial storyboard plan of the action?
                     Answer:  Sure, it can be very different, as needed.

   i.  The storyboard is just something to make sure you get started
       thinking about what you MIGHT do by April 23rd.

  ii.  The storyboard is also to teach you the importance of the
       PLANning that comes before you go to the computer graphics
       and animation software, in our case, Maya.

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       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/f/

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

    Mark