Lighting and Rendering (Fall 2012)

Previous experience: 2 months
Duration of class: 4 months

Project 01 - Hallway Scene [9.19.12]
Leaning to apply textures to an object

Project 02 - HDRI [9.24.12]
Understanding HDRIs and trying out shads

Project 03 - Boiler Room [10.03.12]
Working with lighting more, Nurbs

 

Project 04 - Roof Top Scene [10.08.12]
Image based lighting, focus on lighting with color

Project 05 - Train Scene [10.16.12]
Creating shaders, working with light fog

Personal Progress:

Start of the semester [9.19.12]

Revised at the end of the semester [12.06.12] 3 months later, Video Link

Final Project - Create your own scene [12.06.12] Create objects, use found obj, light it, and render push-in Video Link

Created: Desk, Hutch, Binders, Composition Notebooks, CDs, Post-its, Stack of paper, Mouse-pad, Crown molding, working Window, Chair mat, cCrkboard, oh yeah, and the Working Filing Cabinet (with folders)! Other Objects and Textures found online. Bump maps created and applied. Shaders found on CreativeCrash. Created and composited an Ambient Occlusion.

Beginning 3D Animation (Summer 2012)

I started this class with no prior knowledge of 3D animation and the software used.

Project 01 - (Missing)
Objective: to create an abstract cityscape using basic, geometric blocks and to become familiar with the Maya interface.

Project 02 - Bioform
Objective: to create an abstract object, and to become familiar with the basic elements used in modeling

Bioform - Abstract Model beginning modeling, leaning the basics to extruding	Bioform - continued basic 3-point lighting used to highlight object

Project 03 - Final: Automaton
Objective: to create an animation using the basic modeling techniques; blinn and ambert matirials; basic lighting; and parent-child constraint.

The final specs to Archy and Fly's designs.
Complete design and creation, 2012 by Alexandra M. Guerin

Archy watching his fly friend
His curiosity is shown without facial expression

The Breakdown: Archy sees a fly go by.  He is happy and dances. He notices that he has wings too. He tries flapping the wings, but doesn't fly. He becomes sad.

Folding Forms

Assignment: 
To use and understand shape-tweens. The 280px square must be filled with #999999 from the start, and returned to the same color at the finish. You must fold all four corners, make two cut-outs, and fold the corners from the cut-outs (You don't have to fold all the cut-out corners). Each fold must take two seconds and hold for a second. Each cut-out must take a second, then hold a second.