Wednesday 2/18

Today we are going to finish up our Temple projects!  Please see slide below for details.

 

 Extra time?  Do something productive!  Finish missing work, play around with Maya, finish other homework, read, etc!

Thursday 2/12

Today we are going to continue working on our Temple Tutorials in Maya.  Find where you left off last class and continue on with your reading directions.

When you finish with Lesson 3 & 4 and your temple is semi complete, you want to add the following items shown below to your temple.

Then you may turn it into the "Temple Dropbox" on Cole.

Tuesday 2/10/15

Today we are going to begin our first Maya Tutorial.  There are reading directions, but I will show you what you want to look for in the directions.  When you start out, it's always better to read more than you think you need to make sure you don't miss anything.  As the tutorials go on, you will learn what you need to read and what you can skim over.  

If you forget how to get to your tutorials, here are is how:

Find the "Help" Button in your Main Menu

Help---->Tutorials

When you click on Tutorials it will bring you to a webpage. 

Then you will need to find the project you are working on.  The first tutorial is under Maya Basics.

 

FRIDAY!!

Today we are going to finish up our car designs, turn them into the Car Dropbox, vote on the best design in class, and begin our first Maya tutorial!

Continue with your Car Designs!

Make sure you have todays ARTiFact written down in your folder and then continue working on your car designs.  We will do a quick review on how to add colors to your car at the beginning of class and then the remainder of the period you will be working on your own.  We will have all day today and Friday's class if we need it. 

If you would like to listen to your own music today, you may.  However you must have earphones!  Blasting your music out of your computer for everyone to hear is not allowed.  :)

First ARTiFact and Cars!

1.Today you will have your first ARTiFact Vocabulary word.  You can find this posted below.  Make sure you have a running list throughout the semester of these words- there will be quizzes!!

2. Make sure you have turned in your Elements and Principles Powerpoint Project.  This should already be done.  If you are NOT done- make sure you finish ASAP and turn it in via Cole in the "Elements and Principles Dropbox" listed under "Assignments".

3. Continue or begin working on your Car Design.  Details below.

***New Students will have an intro to Maya with me today!***

Elements &Princples and CARS!

Tuesday & Thursdays Class
















Elements and Principles Powerpoint:
Continue working on your Elements and Principles PowerPoint.  When you are finished- save it- and drop it into the "Elements and Principles" DropBox on Cole!
Remember- You need to have 16 Slides: 1 Elements of Art Title page, 1 Principles of Design title page, 7 elements and 7 principles!
















Extra time? You need to begin building your car for your first Maya project!  During the first class, you learned how to create forms and manipulate them.  Decide what car you want to model yours after and begin building.  Remember to constantly to be moving your scene (grid) so you can see your forms from all directions.  When you move your forms, everything should stay together..this is part of the challenge.  Don't worry about colors yet, just build your car.  But don't forget about windows and designs--  **Planes** work great for windows and designs  Planes are FLAT squares that you can manipulate.
***NURBS will be more smooth shapes and Polygons will be more rigid!***