Date: Icy, Snowy, Cold Monday, 01 Dec 2008 11:53:23 -0600 (CST)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-088-11-fall@uni.edu
Subject: Take-home quiz is due Wednesday (No in-class quiz)... Curtains...

Hi Maya students,

  http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/dec/dec1st.html

  The page also contains a review of or preview of additional material
we have been covering and/or will be covering further on Wednesday and
Friday.

  Your last assignment should be posted before December 2nd arrives, perhaps
by 11:30 p.m. tonight if I am lucky and all goes well.

  I was pretty rusty on Maya today because of spending break trying to learn
Flash video and Adobe After Effects.  Thanksgiving break was indeed
a break from Maya!  :-)  Thanks for the help in modeling the curtains.
The take home quiz should be a great review of what was covered.

  http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/info.html

  The Flash video experiments that were shown in class are here:

      http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/022/fla/vid/cuePointTry1.html

      http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/022/fla/vid/staypuft.html

      The 2nd video, from Ghostbusters, is an experiment with the
  FLVPlayerCaptioning component.  The captions relate to problem
  solving and are definitely related to storyboarding and other
  tasks in creating video and special effects and animations.

  Dr. Peter Venkman is played by Bill Murray.   (SNL in 70s)
  Dr. Raymond Stantz is played by Dan Akroyd.   (SNL in 70s)
  Dr. Egon Spengerl is played by Harold Ramis.  (Second City TV)

  Each character represents a different phase of the problem solving and
  troubleshooting and programming process.  GB applies to animation
  and web development and video production and working with tools like
  Maya too, but I haven't had time to prepare some material on that.

  Flash video and After Effects will be a fairly significant part of
the 810:023 class in the spring.

      http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/23/c023plan.html

  Take-home quiz is due Wednesday (No in-class quiz)... Curtains...

        http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/dec/dec1st.html

        http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/info.html

  Mark