iat 241 Animation
Week 5 Page

 

Week 5 outline:

LECTURE
Lighting and Rendering
Lecture Notes PPT (4.5 Mb) here


STUDIO
• For the next wo weeks do the Maya tutorial in the Maya Program under Help: Tutorials
     Getting Started with Maya ---- GET FILES HERE
          Rendering
             Lesson 1 Rendering a scene

             Lesson 2 Shading surfaces

             Lesson 3 Lights, shadows and camera

Check with your TA for which part of these lessons to complete.

• Think how you might use these techniques in you Port 3) Environment assignment
    (see assignments page for details).


Due for next week's class :

• Prepare your storyboard and pitch and bring them to studio class. Prepare to pitch your short (using your storytelling abilities and storyboard (on paper) in class. Your storyboard must be linked from your portfolio site before studio class. (while all team members must have a link on their individual sites - the storyboard can reside on one of the team's website.).

Your team or a member of your team will pitch your storyboard in studio class for part of your grade!!! Keep it short (under 6 minutes, minimal setup). Use paper or a laptop.

Here are some online storyboard directions and examples (research others too):

http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/storybd/ - good storyboard directions
http://pages.cthome.net/mychun/storyani.html - storyboard examples
http://www.enricovalenza.com/story.html - storyboard examples
http://www.animationartist.com/theproject/index.html - storyboard examples
http://www.storyboards-east.com/storybrd.htm- storyboard examples

• No readings for next week.