Good times

-- Posted from my iPhone

IMD I and II

Mr. Dimasso and I are both out today. The good news is that everyone is able to work independently on their competitive events so no instructional time will be lost!

Here's the assignments:

IMD I

3D - Fine tune your script and storyboard, make absolutely sure it's done for Friday.

Digital Media - Make absolutely sure script and storyboards are done and make sense! Have someone else read it, MAKE SURE IT MAKES SENSE!

Presentation Management - Continue with your presentation, rehearse your speech at least once for the substitute. Make sure you record the total time, remember we are targeting 10 minutes.

Web - Digital site map, continue collecting content, continue with design. Looking forward to seeing an awesome site!

IMD II

You have your assignments from our conferences yesterday. Make sure you post your work to earn your daily grade.

We'll see you Friday!

Mr.F

Long Time No Blog

Srs - I'm out this afternoon. Please make sure you use your time wisely.

The assignments below are a starting point for your work today. You should have a list of work that needs completed. You know what you need to do!

Web Team - I'd like to see a site ready to upload asap. I have a web developer lined up to take a look at your work. Get moving on making a working site.

3D Team - We need to get run time for each storyboard segment - add this info to your storyboard. We also need to create seperate storyboards for the following shots, they need more detail than we have in the existing storyboards
3
3a
6
7
9
10

Digital Media - Jon continue working on your storyboards and script. Arron - you need to get this FINISHED ASAP! John - continue photoshoping dead presidents they look great!

Presentation Management Team - Make sure your presenting small bits of info on each slide! Work on fine tuning content.

Presentation Management Individual - Develop a script for your presentation!

define:minutia

a small or minor detail; "he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code"

IMD I - The color wheel location

The sample flash color wheel is saved in:

students/public/fitzer/sample wheel/color wheel.fla

IMD I - Name your Movie Clips

Rotation I - We need to create a naming system for your completed projects. You will need to name your movie clip with the name of the topic underscore first name underscore last name.

Here's an example:

warm colors - warmcolor__derek_fitzer

save your file to students/public/fitzer/color wheel

Name your file with the topic name

Example:

warmcolor.fla

Get it? Got it? Good!

Rotation II - You will need to name your movie clips using the topic name underscore illustration underscore first name underscore last name.

Example:

warmcolor_illustration_derek_fitzer


save your file to students/public/fitzer/color wheel

Name your file with the topic name

Example:

warmcolor_illustration.fla

IMD II - Portfolio Drawing Criterea

3 hour minimum portfolio drawing is due this Friday.

The drawing needs to be completed on cardstock or unlined paper with a pencil (mechanical pencil not permitted)

The drawing must be drawn from life. Observational drawing requires the artist to interpret a 3-d space and draw in on the flat surface of the paper.

I will be looking for complex shading and detailed line work.

THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE BEGINNING OF 6TH PERIOD NEXT MONDAY

IMD I - Finish Your Menus!

IMD I - Color Wheel Location

Use the flash graphic from

students/public/fitzer/color theory!

Programmer 101: Teach Yourself How to Code

Good stuff, take a look.

http://lifehacker.com/5401954/programmer-101-teach-yourself-how-to-code

IMD I - Color Theory and Non Linear

IMD I and II - Lab Closed

I'm temporarily closing lab to students outside of their scheduled lab period. I like to make lab available to as many students as possible but I've had a few issues with disruptive behavior.

I will post new guidelines in the future and we will be able to revisit students working in lab outside of their lab period.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Mr.F

IMD II - Summary and AS II Review

We'll be talking in class about the summary designs.

Time permitting we will be reviewing actions script for non linear navigation.

IMD I - AS2 Review!

What is Actionscript? It's a programming language inside flash that we can use to make flash projects interactive.


Steps for controlling playback1. Create stop actions by placingstop(); - this is placed on a frameon the timeline
ALWAYS MAKE THE TOP LAYER OF A FILE THE CODE LAYER!

2. add frame labels on the properties menu

3. Create a button and add a statement to send the playback to a frame label.

on(release){
gotoAndPlay(“FRAME_LABEL_HERE");
}

Create a button
1. draw object
2. F8 – convert to symbol button
3. double click on the button you just created!
4. Modify up, over, down, and hit states

Hit state is invisible! It defines the area that makes the button react!

IMD II - Summary Menu Comp

You will need to complete flash comp of your summary menu in flash.

If you remember from the first six weeks you wrote a summary and created a link to it in your blog. It should be saved in your capstone link list.

This text is the content for this menu. Place it so that it is easy to read.

Here are the details of what you need to show in this comp:

stage size 1024x768 (5 points)

Back to Main Menu Button with text label. (25 points)

Background Illustration (30 points)

Place the actual text from your summary blog post in the document. Make sure it is easy to read against your background. (20 points)

Label the neutral state animation for this menu. (5 points)

You composition should address composition. Use balance and rule of thirds as guides when you illustrate the menu. (15 points)

YOU HAVE A SHORT ROTATION AND THIRD HOUR TO COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT.

TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR YOUR WORK TODAY YOU WILL NEED TO EXPORT AN IMAGE FROM FLASH AND POST IT TO YOUR BLOG BEFORE THE END OF LAB.

IMD I - Illustration Evaluation

Please read these instruction carefully!

We are at the end of out illustration unit in flash. You will need to complete the insect illustration above.

1. Save the image to your login.

2. Import the image into a new flash file and place it on a new layer

3. Convert the image to a graphic and reduce the opacity (alpha) of the symbol.

4. Trace the insect, create a separate layer and make a separate graphic symbol for each color coded part of the insect.

Here's a list of the layers and symbols you will need to create:

head

body

backleg

front leg

bluearm

yellowarm

claw

YOU DO NOT NEED TO ILLUSTRATE THE HIGHLIGHTS OR SHADOWS!

YOU HAVE A SHORT ROTATION AND THIRD HOUR TO COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT.

TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR YOUR WORK TODAY YOU WILL NEED TO EXPORT AN IMAGE FROM FLASH AND POST IT TO YOUR BLOG BEFORE THE END OF LAB.

IMD II

I'm impressed with several of the mm concept sketches. Spend today getting some ideas down for your summary menu. Were going to push through the rest of menu concepts over the next so get your thinking cap on.


-- Posted from my iPhone

IMD I - A final day to animate

You will have today's rotation to make sure your Dino animation is complete. If your Dino is done find a simple illustration online and work on a little bezier practice. If your entering the reflections contest please see mr. D about finishing matting and paperwork. We have to turn these in by 1:30 today.

IMD I - Animation Review

Here are the steps for animating the dino body!

1. Duplicate the body symbol in the library, edit the copy to close the mouth.

2. place the mouth open graphic on the stage and convert it to a movie clip (this will place the graphic inside the movie clip)

3. Edit the new movie clip and add animated waving arms.

4. Duplicate the waving arms mc, edit this copy and use swap symbol to open and close the mouth.

IMD II - A Day For Planning

We're going to spend the week working on interactive resume. This will be your only day for research. Gather detail images from flickr and google for your main menu. Save them in a folder in your login. You should also be thinking about the illustration style you are going to use for your interactive resume.

You should have 30-50 images for class tomorrow!

I've been working on getting audio sfx together. I have several gig of MP3's ready! Here's a link to a sfx audio montage so you can hear some of the ambient sounds.

http://files.me.com/dfitzer/9tv7c0.mp3
the download password is imd

REMINDER: YOUR REFLECTIONS VISUAL ARTS ENTRY IS DUE TOMORROW!!!

I'm going to give audio entries an extension so we can complete recording. Visual arts entries are still due!

Stay focused! Have a good day! I should be back tomorrow.

IMD I - A Little Shade!

1. Make sure your dino is finished!

2. If dino is complete, work on drawing the alien above. The shape is relatively easy, but creating the shading can be a little tricky. Use separate layers to add the highlights.


I'll be demonstrating the technique in class tomorrow. If you get stuck work on your reflections entry. IT'S DUE TOMORROW!


DID I MENTION THAT YOUR REFLECTIONS VISUAL ARTS ENTRY IS DUE TOMORROW!!!

I'm going to give audio entries an extension so we can complete recording.

Stay focused! Have a good day! I should be back tomorrow.

Mr.F

IMD I - Epiphany Moment! The Frogger Test

Symmetrical

Tangent

More Bezier curve review!

....and the epiphany moment! The Frogger Test in second rotation.

IMD I - Wrap up the Dino!

You'll need to get your Dino finished, we'll be using him next week.

If your Dino is finished work on you reflections entry!

Reflections information is in the next post.

IMD I and II - Visual Arts Portfolio Entry

"Beauty Is..." Visual Arts Portfolio Entry

All IMD students will need to create a visual arts project. We will be following the guidelines and theme from the PTA reflections contest. Digital Work is not allowed for this assignment, you must create your entry using pen pencil brush etc.

Visual Arts

A visual arts entry must be an original print, drawing, painting, collage, metal etching or punch work, fiber work, that relates to the current Reflections Program theme.

Whether an entry uses a variety of techniques or a simple approach, it will be judged primarily on how well the student uses his or her artistic vision to portray the theme. A well-developed concept is more important than technique.

Presentation

* All art must be flat and may not be more than 3/8 inch thick. This includes all two-dimensional materials and images, including small, flat items (such as string, fabric, and screening) that have maximum surface contact with the face of the image. Nothing three-dimensional (noodles, beans, beads, boxes, etc.) may extend off the surface of a work.
* No art may exceed 24 inches by 30 inches, including a mat.
* Entries may be submitted on paper, canvas board, cardboard, hot or cold pressboard, or canvas (not to exceed 3/8-inch thickness).

You will turn in your visual arts portfolio work for an IMD grade (60 points). Submiting the work to the reflections contest is optional.

Please note that the following 3D artwork may not be submitted to the reflections contest, but can be turned in for the portfolio assignment.

Sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, and other three-dimensional artwork

Here's a link to the complete PTA Reflections information

http://www.ptareflections.org/galleries/2009-2010%20Files/09-10%20Reflections%20Visual%20Arts.pdf

IMD I - History of Rock V2

We will be watching the history of rock and roll v2 in lab today, make sure you outline the presentation we'll be using the information to illustrate the influence of rock and roll on society.

The remaining time will be spent working with the dinosaur flash illustration.

IMD II - Rendering After Effects

We will be covering rendering in AE and you will need to post your finished product to your blog. You will need to post you project to your blog today!

Ctrl K in comp area to check size (720x480)

Composition Menu - Add to Render Queue

Render Settings - Draft

Output Module - custom - format options - cinepac codec

Output To - name the file

HIT the big render button to start!

IMD I - Larm and Rarm Rarrrrrrrr.....

Illustrate this cool dino in flash. Create smooth lines by limiting the number of vertices you draw! Create separate layers for arms and body so we can animate!

IMD II - Finish Your After Effects!

You will have a short lab to finish your 3 image after effects montage.

We will be grading this project on monday!

Use your time wisely, have a great weekend!

MR.F

IMD I - Buttons and Actions!

We'll review creating buttons and on(release) statements in flash. Need to review? Watch the videos that are saved in the students/public/fitzer/video lectures

IMD I - Time to Rewind!

We'll be learning how to use code to control the playback of our timeline. NOTES ARE VERY IMPORTANT TODAY!

Table of contents title: Introduction to Actionscript

What is Actionscript? It's a programming language inside flash that we can use to make flash projects interactive.


Steps for controlling playback

1. Create stop actions by placing

stop();

on the timeline



2. add frame labels on the properties menu

3. Create a button and add a statement to send the playback to a frame label.

on(release){
gotoAndPlay("start");
}

IMD I - Pop Up Flash!

After completing your pop quiz you may use any extra time to finish up your skyline animation.

If your skyline is complete please work on the following assignment:

Twin Oaks Construction needs a logo.

Twin Oaks specializes in finish carpentry. They want to convey a reliable professional and clean image for high end clients.

Design a logo in flash or photoshop.

A deisgn from our class will be chosen and used by the client, this can be great for your portfolio!

IMD I and II - Thanks For Your Support!

Great job to everyone who helped with the breast cancer awareness PSA shoot yesterday!

IMD I - Long lab today, wrap up your 6up and skyline! We will also be looking at pin design.

IMD II - Finish you after effects animation, it's due today!

IMD I - Continuing the Animation Sample

Complete your 6 up animation sample. When that is finished continue with your skyline sample. We will wrapping these activities up over the next two days!

IMD I and II - SAVE YOUR WORK EVERY 5 MINUTES!

One of the most important rules to remember when working with technology is to save your work every 5 minutes! We had two power surges over the past two days. SAVE YOUR WORK.

IMD I - More Animation Practice

Continue working on your animation sample from yesterday.

The sample file is located in the students/public/fitzer/flash folder

I'll be grading this from screen at the end of lab today. Please let me know when you have the assignment completed.

Embeddable Video In Blogger

IMD I - Motion Tween Animation Review

Duplicate the flash animation shown below:

How to avoid the dreaded broken motion tween:

1. Review Your Notes!

2. Do you have more than 1 symbol on a layer?

3. Did you convert the object to a symbol?

4. Did you set the tween to motion?

Today in Class

Animation review and lab time to complete the animation sample below:



Need to review motion tween technique? Take a look at this tutorial: http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/motion_tween.asp

IMD II - After Effects Montage and Keylight

What is Rock and Roll Montage

1 quote 3 images with foreground, mid, and background separation

animate in after effects dof, pan or other

Composition resolution is 720x480

IMD I - Animation in Flash!

New notes today get ready!

pen a new flash file (Ctrl+N).
New Document window will appear
Select General panel and choose Type: Flash Document . Press OK.
If your timeline window is not open, press (Ctrl+Alt+T).
Now you can see a single Layer called "Layer1" in your timeline Window.


Select the first frame. Import your image onto stage, upon which you would want to implement motion tween.
File>Import>Import to Stage, or just press (Ctrl+R).
Or you can even draw your own object, you can either choose Rectangular tool or Oval tool from the tool box and draw your desired shape.
Now select your object on the stage and press F8 to convert this image to a Symbol. Convert to Symbol window will pop-up.
Name your Symbol what ever you like.
Select Graphic behavior and press OK.

Note: You can create motion tween only on symbols. So any object upon which you would want to implement motion tween, First convert the object to a Symbol.

Right now your Symbol is in frame1 of Layer1. Select frame 20 and press F6 to insert a new keyframe.
Still keeping playhead on frame 20, move your Symbol to any other position other than the present one.
Select any frame between, 2 to 19 and select Motion from the tween pop-up menu in the Property inspector. Now your Layer will look something like the one shown below.


Now press (Ctrl+Enter) to view your motion tween.

IMD II - The History of Rock and Roll

We will be watching the History of Rock and Roll in class today. We will be using a quote from the video to create an after effects montage.

IMD I - Good Morning!

Illustration with flash Review

Pen tool

Select tool

Sub Select Tool

Transform Tool

Rectangle and Oval

Ink Bottle (stroke)

Paint Bucket (fill)

New Tools

File - Import

F8 - convert to symbol

IMD I - Intro to Flash!

We'll be looking at Flash cs3 Professional - amazing stuff.

We also want to finish up your 3d and post your animation to your blog.

Check in and the history of rock and roll 3rd hour.

IMD I - New Videos

I've added three videos to the public/fitzer/lecture video folder.

They cover the pin hop, copying the pin hop, and rendering.

Take a look if you need to review the animation process.

IMD II - Portfolio Books, Reflections, and Blog Updates

Add the following content in your portfolio and capstone link lists:
Look at the IMD II sample blog to see the layout.

Portfolio:
Chess Set Images (link to a post with multiple vantage points)
Brand and Identity (create a b&I montage on a white background, see samples below)

Capstone:
1st 6 wks research presentation (upload powerpoint to google docs)

Brand and Identity Sample 1


Brand and Identity Sample 2


Brand and Identity Sample 3


Brand and Identity Sample 4

IMD I - Bowl-a-thon!

You have time in lab to complete your bowling alley project. You will need to complete an animation where the bowling pins jump over the bowling ball as is passes. Make sure you use your notes so the lane, pins, and ball are the correct sizes.

You will also need to calculate how fast the ball should travel if it is thrown at 15 mph.

Here's a couple of hints:

You need to convert mile per hour to feet per second 15mph = x fps

30 frames in max = 1 second.

IMD I - Put a little bounce in your friday!

We'll be reviewing the animation process by creating a sample animation where a series of cylinders jump over a rolling ball.

Make sure you have the following steps in your notes:

24 vs 29.97 vs 30 fps

Keyframe

Tween

Steps for animation:

1. Create geometry, set all in key filters

2. Manually add a key for the object at frame 1

3. Turn on Autokey

4. Move timeline

5. Modify Object.

6. Repeat as necessary

7. Fine tune animation using the graph editor.



Next week we will use this process to create a bowling alley animation where the pins jump over the ball. As animators we need reference information, see if you can find the following information online. Create a page in your book for the notes.

1. What are the dimensions of a bowling alley lane?

2. What size is a bowling ball?

3. Find a blueprint of a bowling pin that shows dimensions. (save to your folder)

4. How fast does a bowling ball travel (average bowler vs pro?)

5. Find and save as many reference photos of bowling alleys as you can with the time remaining.

Audio Production Infographic

You've answered audio questions, created illustrations of the basic concepts. Now it's time to compile the information into one INFOGRAPHIC. A Infograophic is an illustration packed with useful facts, we see them in magazines and newspapers all the time. Infographics are very visual and deliver facts in short bursts with lots of illustrations to keep things interesting.

Create a 10 inch x 8 inch infographic using your audio notes, illustrations, and photos from the net to make things interesting.

REMEMBER it's about communicating the facts!

Here is a sample Infographic I created for a class I took over the summer:

IMD II - Expert Work Today

John may be completely wrong about computing platforms, but he is dead on as far as blueprint sites are concerned.

Awesome! Check it out!

http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/

IMD I - Getting ready for the 6 weeks review

The end of the first 6 weeks is this Friday. You'll need to create the following link in the side bar of your blog:

1st 6 weeks portfolio
Introduction to Audio Questions
Castle Render 1
Castle Render 2
Castle Render 3
Castle Render 4
Robot Render 1
Robot Render 2
Raytrace Frame

I will be doing a notebook check Monday, this grade is worth 100 points.

SAD NEWS: We exceeded bandwidth on the podcast site, the link doesn't work any more :-( I'm looking for a new hosting solution.

IMD II - Independent Study Posts Need More Detail

I took a look at the posts from yesterday and they are missing allot of detail. I only found three posts that really documented what they were going to do with the time available (Cottrell, Brown, Saucedo - Good Job!)

Please answer the following questions about your IS.

1. Describe what you will create for your presentation on Monday. You will be presenting your work to the class in a 2-3 minute presentation.

2. Describe what you hope to learn with this assignment. Be specific.

3. What resources are you going to use?


ASSIGNMENT: Answer the questions in a google doc, print the doc and bring it to me to be checked off TODAY before you start working. You will turn this page in on Monday at the time of your presentation.

car tut
http://www.3dtotal.com//team/Tutorials/nissan_350z/nissan_01.php

http://www.techmynd.com/3dmax-video-tutorial-car-modeling/

http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/fiat500/fiat500_m01.php

IMD I - You've Been Framed!

We'll practice creating a bitmap material and a raytraced material in max by creating a picture frame. I would like you to create at least one frame, many students will have time to create several. Make sure you get the dimensions (in pixels) of the image you're going to use and make the box primitive the appropriate size. You can always uniform scale the shape as necessary.

ASSIGNMENT: Create a minimum of one frame, place the frame on a raytraced table top. Create a camera looking at the frame. Render the image and post it to your blog.

http://podcastmachine.com/podcasts/2034/episodes/9062#



Texture Basics Lecture

http://podcastmachine.com/podcasts/2034/episodes/9062#

IMD II - Low Poly review

We're going to look at the construction techniques for the low poly character in lab today.

IMD I - texture review, creating a simple picture frame

We will be looking at textures again and creating a picture frame.

Good Morning!

This is the view from the roof of my cousins apartment. They have a great view of the Empire State Building! The large wood structure on the right side of the frame is a water tank for the building.

Greetings from NYC

I'm a little concerned to see several people didn't post to their blogs. NO POST NO CREDIT

The glass apple cube goes underground to an amazing apple store!







-- Posted from my iPhone

IMD I (Thursday and Friday)

You will need to complete the following activities over the next two days:

1. Open you castle file and save it with a new name. Open the renamed file and add texture to the model. Make sure you use the mapscaler modifier to scale the textures you have applied. Don't go nuts with bold color. Make sure the amazing geometry you created is not overpowered by texture.

2. Complete and post your audio activity from earlier this week.

If you have extra time add texture to your robot model and post rendered images to your blog.

TO RECEIVE CREDIT YOU MUST MAKE A POST ON THURSDAY AND ANOTHER POST ON FRIDAY SHOWING PROOF OF WHAT YOU DID IN LAB. Screen cap or render your work and post at least one image. Write a two to three sentence description of what completed.

IMD II (Thursday and Friday)

You have three activities to complete while I'm gone:

1. Complete the low poly character tutorial packet. The tutorial is also available in the Max help menu. You will need the blue reference images above for the project. These are saved in the public/students/fitzer/low_polygon_modeling folder.

2. Complete the Audio reading / questions post here:
http://imdatswca.blogspot.com/2009/09/imd-i-audio-production-basics-part-1.html

3. Post a rendered image of your chess set on your blog.

TO RECEIVE CREDIT YOU MUST MAKE A POST ON THURSDAY AND ANOTHER POST ON FRIDAY SHOWING PROOF OF WHAT YOU DID IN LAB. Screen cap or render your work and post at least one image. Write a two to three sentence description of what completed.

IMD I - Get Your Robots Ready!

This will be the last day for robot construction. Tommorow we start adding textures.

IMD II - pro textures, mental ray, and scale.

Get ready for notes, there is a lot to cover!

Look at the following examples of the mental ray rendering engine in Max

Frosted blue and clear glass 1 side of reflection

Frosted blue and clear glass 6 sides of reflection


Mental Ray Daylight on white standard texture

Audio Production Basics part 1

As we start working with audio production we need to look at the basics of sound theory. Please read the following article:

http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/01/

(there are several pages) Answer the questions in a word document, then post the questions and answers to your blog.

Add an audio diagram page to your table of contents in your composition book, you will draw several diagrams and illustrations in this assigment.

This assignment must be posted to your blog BEFORE FRIDAY

You will need to use google to answer question 4 and 5.

1. What range of frequencies are detectable to the human ear?

2. Define Audio

3. Audio production involves what four elements of audio?

4. List 10 careers in audio and list a local company for six of the career fields

5. List three careers that need to have an understanding of audio production concepts

6. A person rings a bell and another person hears the sound. Draw a diagram (in your composition book) of how this sound is created, transmitted, and received by a human

7. What is a waveform

8. Is sound two dimensional or three dimensional?

9. How do variations in sound pressure correlate to a waveform diagram?

10. Illustrate (in your composition book) the difference between wavelength, amplitude, and frequency.

11. Diagram (in your composition book) in phase, 180deg out of phase, and different wave and how they interact.

12. Define transducer

13. Define amplifier

14. Define signal processor

15. Diagram (in your composition book) the 3 part model as described in the article.

IMD I - Happy Monday

Today you will have lab time to work on your robot model. I will be grading blog and castles today!

IMD II - Lab time for chess layout.

You chess models are due tomorrow! Use your time wisely.

IMD I - Robot / Space Ship Model

Your next assignment will be to create a robot or space ship model that you will use to create a fictitious comic book advertisement

take a look at this flickr searchs for ideas:

Comic Ads
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=comic+book+advertisement&m=text

Awesome Robots:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lipsonrobotics/


You will need to create a 6 5/8" x 10 1/4" comic book advertisement for your "mail order" robot or space ship.

IMD I 2D - 3D conversion practice

Good Morning!

Start lab by transferring your 3D navigation notes to your composition book. (pages 1-2)

We'll continue with our 2D-3D conversion practice in lab.

NOTE: Castle projects are due tomorrow! Make sure you've posted your 4 camera pics and answers to the questions to your blog. You'll be receiving a grade for your blog (50 points) and the castle project (100 points).

Your Robot Model Assignment will follow in the next post!

IMD II - Chess Evaluation

Today we will look at evaluating you chess models.

IMD II - Wraping up the Chess Set

You will need to complete the knight over the next two days.

If your knight is complete you need to work on the texture and composition of the background in your scene. You will need to discuss composition and elements of design when this your project is submitted.

IMD I - Slice em up!

Create the drawing above using simple shapes, the slice option on the modify menu is key!

You need to know how to do the following, make sure you have the answers to the following questions in your notes:

1. How do you draw a closed line?

2. How do you extrude a closed line?

3. how do you draw a corner point?

4. How do you draw a curved point?

5. How do you convert a point type?

6. What is a vertex?

7. How do you move a vertex?

8. How do you fillet a vertex?

9. How do you outline a line?

IMD II - Lets talk about contrast.

Contrast is one the principles of design. Contrast occurs when two elements are different. The greater the difference the greater the contrast. The key to working with contrast is to make sure the differences are obvious. Four common methods of creating contrast are by using differences in size, value, color, and type.

We will be talking about the element of color and how it can be used to add contrast. I'll want you to place an emphasis on this value when designing texture for your chess set.

Look at the following images and discuss the role of color and contrast.

Imd I

We ran out of time on Friday! Complete the Friday blog post work by the end of lab today.



-- Post From My iPhone

IMD I - Castles are DUE!

You will need to submit the following in a blog post before the end of the period.

1. Render 4 white camera views of your castle.

2. Answer the following questions in the same blog post.

What have you learned about 3D Modeling?

What has been your biggest challenge in 3D?

What would you do differently if you were to do your castle model over again?

Was your research sketch helpful?

3. Make sure you bring your concept sketch on Monday we will be scanning them.



TEXTURE and CAMERA NOTES

to create a white texture:

M to open the materials editor

Select the gray box next to the diffuse label

Change the color to white

ctrl + A to select all in the file

hit the assign material to selection button to apply the material



To create a camera :

Go to the camera page (look for the camera icon)

use a target camera, hit C to change a view to camera view

IMD II - It's a Knight not a Dragon (sorry Harley)

Get your knight on. Make sure you read the fine print.

IMD I

Wrap up your castle design during lab, we will be creating cameras and rendering tomorrow!




-- Post From My iPhone

IMD I - 9.9.09 !

No lecture today, lab time for the Castle project.

I've added links to IMD I blogs. If your name is not listed you'll need to email me your blog address (copy and paste from the address bar) and your full name. Send the email to franzderek@gmail.com

Assignment Due FRIDAY: Customize (stickers, art, etc) the cover of your new composition book, make sure your name is visible on the cover.

IMD II - Happy Tuesday!

Warm up: Please answer the following questions in your essential question google doc.

1. The following people might be good resources for me (Explain why they are good resources):

2. Some possible resources for research are:

3. How will family, community, or industry benefit from this project?

4. What skills or understanding do you expect to develop and demonstrate in this project?

In Lab:

We will look at constructing the knight by creating an editable mesh.

IMD I - I hope you had a great weekend!

We'll start class by your grading concept sketches and doing a little review of the construction and navigation tools.

We'll spend the rest of lab working on modeling the castle.

IMD I - 3DS images

Post a minimum of 2 rendered images from the box, weight, fence, stair assignment.

Answer the following question in the post:

What did you learn from this assignment?

IMD I - Blogging your work

We're going to learn how to render our work in 3Ds max and post it to your blog.

Please ask for help if you have been unable to create a blog or gmail account!

IMD I - More Samples and SRC

Continue working on the sample drawings from yesterday.

If you were unable to create a gmail account or blogger account please see me during lab.

We will have 1/2 of the long rotation to work on the sample shapes, we will discuss our first 3D project (SRC) during the second half.

IMD II - Capstone and 3D table and chairs

Today were going to work on your capstone planning and creating a 3d setting for your chess set.

IMD I - More 3d construction

After you have created the shapes on the first page, try the drawings below. Save each drawing to your folder.

1. box

2. weight

3. fence

4. stairs










Have you finished the three samples? Try building one of the following:

Cartoon House

Lego brick

Cartoon Primitive Character

3rd Hour

1. Use your gmail login to create a blogger account.

2. Create a blog that will be used for IMD - MAKE SURE YOU RECORD YOUR USERNAME PASSWORD and ADDRESS.

3. Choose a template with a side column.

4. Add a link list to the side column, create a link to the imd blog.

IMD II - Blog format

Modify the side navigation in your blog to look like the sample link below

http://imdstudentsample.blogspot.com/

Add two link lists on the side bar (left or right)

The first link list will connect to your resume text, summary, and capstone planning page

The second link list will be used for your portfolio pieces. Make sure that you upload full resolution images to flickr.

If you can't access your old blogger account, you will need to create a new one. If your blog is not correctly listed on the imdatswca blog page email me a link using your new gmail account. Send the email to franzderek@gmail.com

By the end of lab:

1. Modify your blog - adding Capstone and Portfolio Link Lists

2. Link to your resume in google docs

3. Write and link to your summary statement in google docs

4. link to one portfolio pc on flickr, create a flickr account if necessary.

This assignment is worth 50 points. This assignment will be graded during the last 15 minutes of lab.

Bring your capstone planning page to class tomorrow!

IMD I

More time for 3ds simple shapes and check in


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IMD II - New 3D Tools

We'll look at new spline tools today!

Join Splines

Auto Weld

Soft Selection

And More!

3RD Hour.....

1. Create a gmail account

2. Create a google docs account

3. Using google docs create a resume, include the following components

Objective

Education

Skills

Work Experience

Volunteer Experience

Affiliations

Honors / Awards

IMD I - Welcome to Week Two!

Review 3Ds navigation handout

Construct simple shapes.

3rd Hour

1. Create a gmail account gmail.com

2. Use your gmail account to create a google docs account at docs.google.com

3. Spend 30 minutes creating a full page drawing on the paper provided - due tomorrow.

Check this out...

http://bearfootfilms.com/

Some great example of computer modeling and animation

IMD II - How about a nice game of chess?

5 points for whoever gets the quote.....

We will continue with lathe and polygon extrude. We'll also introduce the boolean subtraction tool to create the bishop.

Link to boolean subtraction notes:
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AapafwkIOkfwZGR4czg1ejRfMTI3Z2c4YmhmcTg&hl=en

IMD I - About me presentations

20 minutes in lab to wrap up about me.

3DS Max navigation terms wrap up

About me presentations 3rd hour

IMD II

Capstone topic wrap up
Review 3ds nav
Intro to lathe and face extrude











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