IDS 252: Topics for January 22/24/26, Spring 2018

• Lab:

  • Review work for Lab 1: Introduction to Maya. See in class process.
  • Discuss and begin Lab 2: Composition and Gesture

• Animation Mentor Student Showcase - 2007

• Using a Rigged Character:

  • Right click on Bony and "Save Link as". Place it in the scenes folder of your Maya project for Lab 2.
  • IK (Inverse Kinematics) vs FK (Forward Kinematics)

• Style and Camera

  • Color Scheme Designer.
  • Chp 1 Visual Story Telling and Storyboards - how the juxtaposition of images tells a story.
  • Chp 3: Fundamentals of the Shot. Also look at:
    • online at Yale Film Analysis ; 3. Cinematography; Framing.
    • Scott McCoud's "Making Comics" - excerpt is on cs-render in folder IDS252Resources\bookExcerpts
  • Using the Camera to Tell the Story, e.g. 12 Angry Men and For the Birds
  • See Lab 2 Evaluation Sheet for design and story elements to consider.

• Maya Demonstrations:

  • Using a rigged character
  • Giving an object a unique color.
  • Transformations, pivot points, nodes, and parent/child relationships.
  • Duplicating objects.
  • Cameras - types, creating your renderCam, etc
  • Cleaning up scene files to prepare for importing
  • Making a Composition - Importing files

• Time Permitting - start discussion of Lighting and Shading

  • Chp 7 of Textbook: Lighting
    
  • A Lighting Approach for Computer Graphics - SIGGRAPH 96 Course 30 (see section on Lighting for Computer Graphics)
  • Film Analysis
    • Lighting. See Part 2: Mise-en-scene; Lighting
    • Color and Contrast. See Part 3: Cinematography; Quality ; color and contrast

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