11/20

11/16

Sorry guys, I  will not be in school today and have a sub for the entire day.  Please look over your assignments submitted, republish your portfolios, check your missing assignments in Powerschool, and resubmit your missing assignments to be graded.   *** I am still going through he re-grade list so if you submitted and I did not get to it, you do not need to fill it out again.

Make sure you finish your final concept design for your sword.

See Example Here: https://sites.google.com/view/devo-portfolio/project-examples/sword

9/27

9/25

The Final object should look like this.

The Final object should look like this.

9/8

Making of Avatar 2022

In your 3d Design Project, paste  project possibilities.

9/6

Why Design Matters

The Third and The Seventh HD by Alex Roman

Designs I Love . . .

Place under a new page in your website Adv 3D tab in a page called:  

"ADV 3D Design Project"

8/28

Be aware of the main bend areas.  These are marked in "blue".

8/25

8/18

Here is a basic character template.   Look at the joints and body sections.  We are using the default humoniod character rig, when you design a character, consider the location basic joints & sections:

Be aware of the main bend areas.  These are marked in "blue".

Choose a proportion sketch you want to explore and sketch a few variations of your potential design.

Development Sketches

Inspiration!

Pacific Rim Inspiration

8/16

Tutorial: Retopology Improvements


In Maya 2024, we've introduced improvements to Retopologize that give you better control over the edge flow of the resulting mesh - including the ability to preserve edges by angle or component tags, as well as the ability to guarantee a symmetrical result.

To try it out:


12/8

watched

Start thinking about your concept design project.  Create a new page under 2021-2022 and label it "CD: Name of Project" and write your initial focus:  Example Here


12/8

3D printing on clothing?

12/2

11/30

11/28

So You Wanna Make Games?? | Episode 2: Concept Art

11/10

11/9

CHECKLIST
Skill Assessment

Maya Booleans, Remesh, & Retopologize Due 9/6 Maya Tessellations Due 9/16 Maya Screwdriver Due 9/16 Maya Mash Cube &  2 Others Due 10/6

CHECKLIST
3D Sword Design Mini Project


IDEA EXPLORATION✅  Sword Alchemy Inspiration board- Design   Due  10/24✅  Sword Alchemy  Design Composite   Due  10/24
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT Thumbnail Sketching Due  Thumbnail Reflection/Annotate  Due✅  Development Sketches Due 11/7✅  Development Sketch Reflection Due Due 11/7✅  Final Concept Design Due 11/7

CHECKLIST
3D Design Final Project


IDEA EXPLORATION✅  Initial Inspiration board- Design   Due 8/30✅  State Initial Focus Due 9/26
✅  Inspiration board- Design   Due 9/26
✅  Inspiration board- *Annotated  Due 9/26  ✅  Thoughts, Analysis, & Reflection Due 9/26✅  State Design  Objective  Due 9/26
DESIGN DEVELOPMENTThumbnail Sketching Due 10/25Thumbnail Reflection/Annotate  Due 10/25Development Sketches Due 10/28Development Sketch Reflection Due Due 10/28✅   Final Concept Design Due 11/4

11/9

Cloth Demo Reel

Pirates of the Caribbean

Cloth Fx Reel-shanmuga

11/7

Re-Evaluate what you final project.  

Change date on your 

11/3

Complete the final concept design for your sword.

Alchemy

Proportion

10/26

Watched . . . Inspiration

Watched . . . Inspiration

Alchemy

Proportion

10/24

Using Alchemy and Krita, create 12+ hilt designs for a sword.

10/10

Make sure your Portfolio is up to date . . .

Mash taken to the next level . . .

10/6

Watched

Maya Mash Audio Tunnel Tutorial

Find a simple Mash tutorial and follow it.  Post your final render or Playblast AND the original tutorial.

Mash Test

10/4

Suggestion to watch

Watched

Multi Colored Cube

TEST 1: random scale and location.  

TEST 2: Multi colored, random scale and location.  

Mash taken to the next level . . .

9/30

9/28

UPDATE Portfolio . . .

Skill Assessment

Maya Booleans, Remesh, & Retopologize Due 9/6 Maya Tessellations Due 9/16 Maya Revolve & Render Review Screwdriver Due 9/16

3D Design Mini Project

✅  Skyscraper Inspiration board- Design   Due 9/8

3D Design Final Project

✅  Initial Inspiration board- Design   Due 8/30✅  State Initial Focus Due 9/26
✅  Inspiration board- Design   Due 9/26
✅  Inspiration board- *Annotated  Due 9/26  ✅  Thoughts, Analysis, & Reflection Due 9/26✅  State Design  Objective  Due 9/26

9/26

UPDATE Portfolio . . .

Skill Assessment

Maya Booleans, Remesh, & Retopologize Due 9/6 Maya Tessellations Due 9/16 Maya Revolve & Render Review Screwdriver Due 9/16

3D Design Mini Project

✅  Skyscraper Inspiration board- Design   Due 9/8

3D Design Final Project

✅  Initial Inspiration board- Design   Due 8/30✅  State Initial Focus Due 9/26
✅  Inspiration board- Design   Due 9/26
✅  Inspiration board- *Annotated  Due 9/26  ✅  Thoughts, Analysis, & Reflection Due 9/26✅  State Design  Objective  Due 9/26

9/16

Finish your final screwdriver

9/14

9/12

Make sure your futuristic Skyscraper is finished.

Today's Goal 

9/8

Create a inspiration board of future skyscrapers.

The Greatest Skyscrapers Never Built

9/6

Portfolio Check 9/8 

Assigned and went over Maya Booleans, Remesh, & Retopologize:  Notes Here

9/1

Assigned and went over Maya Booleans, Remesh, & Retopologize:  Notes Here

8/30

12/10

12/8 - Why is Creativity & Work Ethics?

The design process is not linear  . . . Link to the Android

12/4 - Why is creativity important?

Watch the "Chains on me" Song . . .

Watched 1st 4 minutes

12/2 

Watched: Why 'The Mandalorian' Uses Virtual Sets Over Green Screen


Went over final expectations.

Reviewed my robot design & rig.  

11/30 

Assigned and went over Maya Booleans, Remesh, & Retopologize:  Notes Here

11/19 - ADV 3D Design

Introduction:  Watched two short inspirational video on Pacific Rim and share a robot design Time Lapse.

From Sketch to 3D Model to Texture.

Pacific Rim Inspiration

More Pacific Rim Inspiration

8/20

FIRST FINISH Tessellation - Final Design


8/18 

Watched

Make sure each curve is in its own layer and the colors and layer name are  correct.

Test the curves make sure each set of colors move independently.