Once you have completed the second bouncing ball animation (see previous post) our next assignment is modeling an egg and cup with NURBs. The tutorial files can be found in our shared Google Drive folder. No animation required but you will need to post a screenshot of your final creation. Don't forget to add materials, textures and colors.
This second bouncing ball assignment requires you to create a simple obstacle environment for one of your balls (as in the examples shown above) that allows the ball to drop vertically. This time however you'll need to add squash and stretch to your ball to give it a more realistic bounce. Don't forget to assign materials and/or textures and you cannot use a motion curve.
Obstacle courses are I hope a familiar idea. To finish this first section of the course I would like to assess your skills by asking you to create an obstacle course through which an object of your choice moves. At a minimum the obstacle course animation must contain.
- A sound file that lasts the duration of the animation
- A background image
- An object that moves (flies, moves, rolls) through the obstacle course. This can be something simple you create yourself (ball, cube etc..) or you may wish to download and import something such as the submarine or space craft.
- At least 10 different obstacles to negotiate by going through, under, over or around
- At least 5 different NURBS or polygonal primitives.
- Evidence that you are able to work with the graph editor.
This site will be our primary method of communication. Look carefully and you will see links to various documents and resources that you will need. Listed below are a number of things you will need to do to get up and running in the first week. It is an expectation that you will subscribe to the RSS Feed to receive all updates to this site (see the right hand link 'follow by email'). This will be easier than manually checking the site for updates.
BLOGGER
All SAS students have an SAS blog with Blogger that automatically hooks into a teacher Google dashboard. However, to be visible in this dashboard blog your posts must be tagged with a unique Blogger class label. The label for our class is “3d”.
If you don't have an SAS blog you'll need to create a new site with Blogger and send me the URL. The URL for your blog must be sb-sas#####.blogspot.com (where ##### = your SAS ID number).
BOOKMARK THE CLASS SITE
You will be using this site regularly please make sure it is bookmarked on both your laptop and the iMac you have chosen to work from.
SOFTWARE
IMacs using the latest version of Maya 2015 are available for use in the lab. If you prefer to work with your own laptop the software can be downloaded free of charge from Autodesk. You will need to create an account using your SAS email address.
