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Meetings, Readings, Assignments

Revised 10-27-04

Date Reading/Activity/Deadline
Oct. 27 Complete Boardman, chap. 12 (Photometric Lighting).
View in class: Maestri Disk 2, Movies 37 and 38:
  • Texturing an object
  • Unwrap UVW
Nov. 3 Complete Boardman, chap. 13 (Radiosity and Materials).
View in class: Maestri Disk 2, Movies 39-41:
  • Animation basics
  • Curve Editor
  • Controllers
Nov. 10 Complete Boardman, chap. 14 (Set Key Animation).
View in class: Maestri Disk 2, Movies 42-44:
  • Dope sheet
  • Motion panel
  • Rigging bones
Nov. 17 Complete Boardman, chap. 15 (Controllers and Constraints).
View in class: Maestri Disk 2, Movies 45 and 46:
  • Morpher
  • Animating

Assignment 4

Nov. 24 Thanksgiving: no meeting. Read as much of Snow Crash as you can.
Dec. 1 Complete Boardman, chap. 16 (Graph Editors).

In class: demonstration of Gmax: Part 1.

Start discussion of Snow Crash.

Dec. 8 In class: demonstration of Gmax: Part 2.

More Snow Crash.
Dec. 15 Final Project

No work may be submitted after this date unless you have filed for an Incomplete.

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