Monday, November 28th

Class hours: 9:40am – 2:05pm
Mr. Cronin
Mr. Herr

Notes

Welcome to Week 12! Give me 4 solid weeks of hard work, and I can give you a Friday, Monday -> Friday, and Monday off.
Doors locked immediately after school today due to Monday meetings.
Students with a D- or lower are required to stay after school tomorrow from 2:05 until 3pm to work on raising your grade. If work is turned in by the START of English I will grade and let you know by lunch if you are still required to stay after. Use Site Maintenance wisely.
Doors locked tomorrow morning until 8:30ish due to meeting in the room. Please don’t arrive early and jiggle the handle. ಠ_ಠ

9:40 Attendance and Article

9:45 Site Maintenance

Check the Week 11 “What is Due”
The new vocab is posted -> lets match last weeks 97.5!
Akira render is due tomorrow at 3pm…plan to render tonight, as you will not be able to start rendering tomorrow / get it done in time. The render farm is up…first come first served.

10:45 Break (15 Minutes)

11:00 English with Mr. Bisson

Be back by 11am sharp
Give Mr. Bisson your attention and respect

12:00 Lunch (25 Minutes)

12:25 Attendance and Article

12:25 Quiet Production Time

12:50 Monday Afternoon Max Project: Pop Neon

Today you are going to work with Mental Ray Glow Materials to create a render demonstrating your ability to create, control and modify glowing materials and signage. In addition to practicing mental ray materials, you will need to model 3 different types of objects using shapes – both text and the line tool:

Pizza Parlor Neon Sign

Find a font which works, I think something italic works best

Classic “Open” Sign

As this signs font has no area (its just lines) you will need to create this using the shapes tab. Your work must mimic the classic sign found above.

Alien head

Replicate the “classic” alien head.

For this assignment we will bend the truth a little and not physically connect the signage to the walls. This is ok.

You will spend more time editing the vertex points (corner vs smooth vs bezier vs bezier handle) than creating the objects (I did). The point editing you will practice today will transfer perfectly into Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, or any other graphics program where editing of curves is important.

I placed in front of a wall and used an Architectural and Design material for the wall material, set to masonry. I also created a directional light without shadows pointed at the wall. I set my multiplier to .05 with a color of very very dark grey to lower the overall light level. Your settings may be different, but use mine as a jumping off point.

When complete create a single render called “neonSigns.jpg” at 1280 x 720 and upload to your Week 12 folder.

2:05 Dismissal