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  1. Project 3 Reminder

    Posted by Eric Patterson
    / March 29, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Since this is due Tuesday, I thought I’d post a reminder. (You can always click on the “assignments” categories on the sidebar to see all of the posted assignments, but here’s also a direct link to the entry for the character project). For the test clip, just have the character do something — doesn’t have to be fancy or long. Just a short, simple walk or jump or wave or whatever that demonstrates the rig a bit.
    Posted in Announcements
  2. Rigging Quiz on Tuesday

    Posted by Eric Patterson
    / March 29, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Rig a simple character that I give you with joints and IK-chains for legs and complete a walk cycle.
    Posted in Announcements
  3. Rigging Tips

    Posted by Eric Patterson
    / March 29, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Grab these soon. Going to take ‘em down.
    Posted in Announcements
  4. Hotel Transylvania

    Posted by Eric Patterson
    / March 28, 2012 / Leave a comment

    They were just gearing up for this when I was out there — looks to be pretty fun. :-)

    Posted in Inspiration
  5. 3D Face Captures

    Posted by Eric Patterson
    / March 22, 2012 / Leave a comment

    These are the best times to go by the Face Aging Lab (IISIS), upstairs in the CIS building.

    • Monday: 3:30 – late PM
    • Wednesday: 10:15 a.m. – 1:45 p.m., 3:30 – 4:45 p.m.
    • Friday: 10:15 a.m. – late PM

    Knock on the door, and someone should answer. Camp will probably be the one doing your captures. You’ll be instructed to do 8 captures — neutral, anger, fear, contempt, disgust, sad, surprise, and happy. There should be instructions and sample photos to follow. (If not, yet, come back later).

    Anoir may have to return to Tunisia, so disregard looking for him to do the captures.

    Bring a flash drive to get an .obj file of at least your neutral expression. If they’re not crunched, you can ask for all 8 captures.

    Upload one of your captures to Blackboard by the end of next week.

    Posted in Assignments
  6. Rigging Practice

    Posted by Eric Patterson
    / March 22, 2012 / Leave a comment
    We’ll do some rigging today, practicing with this in-progress model of Job.
    Posted in Announcements
  7. Digital Art Capture and Preservation

    Posted by Eric Patterson
    / March 22, 2012 / Leave a comment

    Click the image for a link to an interesting article about capturing art for preservation with a digital camera on an electronic panorama head. The Factum Arte group does some very interesting work with 2D and 3D captures of art for preservation and other uses. Here’s a great video from one of their other projects:

    Piranesi: Carceri d’invenzione from factum-arte on Vimeo.

    Posted in Inspiration
  8. Character Design Principles

    Posted by Eric Patterson
    / March 14, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Here’s a neat page on some character design ideas from a summer program at Disney for students, and you might find more off the course page, too.

    Posted in Inspiration
  9. iTunes-U Course on Maya

    Posted by Eric Patterson
    / March 14, 2012 / Leave a comment
    There are some free videos here that you may find fun and useful.
    Posted in Inspiration
  10. Some Maquettes for Fun While You’re Working on Yours

    Posted by Eric Patterson
    / March 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Click picture for link.
    Posted in Inspiration
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