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.