IDS 252: Topics for the Week of January 21, 2013

• No class Monday due to Martin Luther King events.

• Lab:

  • Review work for Lab 1: Introduction to Maya .
  • Discuss and begin Lab 2: Introduction to Modeling

• General Discussion

  • Maya: Transformations, pivot points, nodes, and parent/child relationships.
  • Duplicating objects.
  • Text:
    • Chp 1 Visual Story Telling and Storyboards - how the juxtaposition of images tells a story.
    • Chp 3: Fundamentals of the Shot. Also look
      • online at Film Analysis; 3. Cinematography; Framing.
      • Scott McCoud's "Making Comics" - excerpt is on cs-render in folder IDS252Resources\bookExcerpts
  • Composition in Maya: Importing files, preparing maya objects for importing, duplicating
  • Cameras
    • In Maya (types, renderCam, etc)
    • Using the Camera to Tell the Story, e.g. 12 Angry Men

• Lighting and Shading (time permitting)

  • 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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