Thursday, November 3rd

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

Notes

Tree Tunnel in Ukrane
Voltron Lion being built

9:40 Attendance and Article

9:45 Fire / Lighting Pass Fail

Our first exercise of the morning will be to create a basic scene with the following characteristics.

Create:

“A caldroun with green fire. Green fire should be illuminating walls of a small room. Light should die as it approaches the walls.”

Render at 1280 x 720 in size.

Mr. Cronin’s example:

Once you have this complete raise your hand and I will check you off. Once checked off move onto the Castle themed project.

10:15 Castle Interior Themed Environment

Check back to the Tuesday dayplan for specifics.

10:45 Break (15 Minutes)

11:00 Lathe Pass / Fail

Create a 3D Studio Max file that includes:

traditional flower pot
baseball bat
pawn (chess set)

Render at 1280 x 720 in size.

Mr. Cronin’s example:

Once you have this complete raise your hand and I will check you off. Once checked off move onto the Castle themed project.

11:15 Castle Interior Themed Environment

Check back to the Tuesday dayplan for specifics.

12:00 Lunch (25 Minutes)

12:25 Attendance and Article

12:25 Quiet Production Time

12:50 Afternoon Max Content

Box Modeling
Glow Effects
Material ID’s

1:10 Afternoon Max Exercise: Light Sabre

A lightsaber is defined as:

“The lightsaber is a fictional weapon that plays a key role in the movies, games and novels that constitute the Star Wars universe. Lightsabers are science fiction versions of their namesake, the saber. Instead of a metal blade, the lightsaber holds a retractable, brightly colored energy blade about one meter in length. Though they often behave like regular swords, they are also depicted as able to cut through most matter with little or no resistance and to deflect projectiles and other weapons in the Star Wars universe. Within the world of Star Wars, the lightsaber “blade” consists of a very tight loop of highly focused energy, or a loop of plasma contained in a strong magnetic or other field. When deactivated, a lightsaber appears as a polished metallic handle, about a foot long.”

Here are some examples made in different 3D Programs:

An example from Hannah (going to SCAD) last year:

You will get this afternoon to create your own lightsaber. You can recreate one you find online, or you can create your own.

This project will practice your box modeling techniques as well as practice glow effects.

By the end of the day we want you to create 3 renders:

The first render should be of your lightsaber with blade extended. This render will use a glow effect. This render is not to have a skylight, or light tracer, and have a black background. This render will be like the first three examples above.

The second and third renders should be of your lightsaber turned “off”. We want up close, zoomed in views of your modeling/texturing work on the base. These renders will be the final example above – where we can see the detail of the saber itself. If interested here is where you can use light tracer with a white plane setup.

All renders are to be 1280 x 720 in size. Call them “saber1.jpg” through “saber3.jpg” and upload to Week 9.

1:10 Students here yesterday afternoon…

In stead of the light sabre project which you started yesterday, you are going to work on a self directed glow based assignment. You choose a topic that demonstrates your ability to create and control glow effects.

Potential options: