• course Objectives and Structure

• setup a project

• working in orthographic vs. perspective views of space

• QWERTY tools and display UI elements

• working in class: Modeling with polygon primitives, extrusions, splitting faces

• interface overview: Channel Editor, Outliner, Attribute Editor, Viewport, Shading modes

• heirarchy/Object/Component Selection modes + masks

• smoothing & extruding faces

• tearing off Menus for workflow

• watch: Videos 2-8 on the Digital Tutors Site

• sign up for a student account at Autodesk HERE (if you haven't alrady done this)

• Maya 2014 Hotkeys

• Custom Scripts folder location examples

• Polyrandomizer

• Poly mesh cleanup: planar vs. non-planar, non-manifold, lamina geometry

• Components of a Polygon model - faces, edges, and vertices

• Display Layers

• Camera Type + Set Up for rendering, bookmarked views

• More on polygons - normals and fill holes

• watch: Videos 1-10 on the Digital Tutors Site

• supplemental links: interface, menus, status line, shelves, view panel tool bar, marking menus, polygon editing

• Center Pivots, Grouping + Parenting, Duplicating, splitting faces, beveling edges,

• Interface: Using Layers, Hotbox, Customizing a shelf

• basic Booleans

• naming parameters

• quick Render with different materials

• basic rendering options: Maya Software, Mental Ray, Vertex

• setting up image planes: source images folder, orthogonal & planar

• Complete one third (ie, vids 1+2) of the Jerry Can edge flow tutorial: Hand in your scene file in the next class. Be sure to give it a name that includes your name. Y

• Pick up the Jerry Can Tutorial from Dropbox here.

• Work in class on Tutorial

• MIA Material X + • MIA Material link

• Basic Hypershade

• DMap and Raytraced Shadows

• Good Topology: Ref Link 1, Ref Link 2, Ref Link 3

• Complete one third (ie, vids 1+2) of the Jerry Can edge flow tutorial: Hand in your scene file in the next class. Be sure to give it a name that includes your name. Y

• Pick up the Jerry Can Tutorial from Dropbox here.

• Work on tutorial: Complete Jerry Can Tutorial vids 3+4. Hand in your scene file in the next class. Be sure to give it a name that includes your name.

• Work in class on Tutorial

• Continuation of Global Illumination and Final Gather

• More on Rendering, Mental Ray and Raytracing

• Work on tutorial: Jerry Can Tutorial vids 5+6. Hand in your scene file in the next class. Be sure to give it a name that includes your name.

• Watch: all videos in Chapter 10 of the (Rending in maya) Maya 2015 Essential Training with George Maestri - start here

Login to Lynda.com at: go.uic.edu/lynda

• Working with the Hypershade. 2D and 3D procedural textures. Nature of shading parameters. 2D and 3D textures, bump maps, displacement maps, texture placement

• into to 3 point lighting with shadows

• Light Linking

• Basic camera attributes & clipping planes

• Continuation of Global Illumination and Final Gather

• Complete this tutorial: Jerry Can Tutorial. You do not need to do the pins and ring. Hand in your scene file in the next class. Be sure to give it a name that includes your name.

Begin: Description 1 (it is due one week from today)

• Maya's Depth of Field

• nonlinear deformers

• Approximation Editor

• Sculpt geometry tool - artisian interface

• Height Field

Bump Maps vs Displacement Maps

• Review: Concept art links

•Begin Homework - Scene Illustrations / Sketches hand in the 5 drawings in digital format,

• Finish Project Descriptions

• Project Descriptions Due Today

• CrazyBump

• Individual Meetings

• Work through sections 2-5 in Maya 102 Surfacing pdf (in Dropbox) • Facing Normals / Facing Ratio Texture

• Finish Scene Illustrations

• Finish working through sections 2-5 in Maya 102 Surfacing pdf (in Dropbox)

• Scene Illustrations Due Today - present in class

• Character development via Blendshapes

• Squash and stretch

• Watch KeyFrame, Graph Editor, 'Squash and Stretch,' and 'Adding Anticipation to your Animations' videos in Tutorials folder (on Dropbox)

• Watch sections 1-4 in Lynda.com Texturing Video Set

• Continue working on sketches for final project

• More on Paint effects

• Basic motion paths

• Transfer Maps: vs Specular Maps and Normal Maps

• Continue building out models for Final Projects

• Due next Tuesday: Still Life with Materials - Begin work

• Practice Camera Movement in class

• IPR rendering (Interactive Photorealistic Rendering)

• Ramp shaders, making sky dome

• Environment Map

• HDRI shaders

Continue building out models for Final Projects

Work on StIll Life with Materials - due next class

• Review: Render Passes

• Due: Still Life with Materials

• basic lattices

• Pls send me an email wih your available meet times during the week so that we can schedule the make-up class.

• Watch videos in Shading Folder

• Basic subsurface scattering

• SubSurfaceScatter - resource link

• Work on Still life with Materials

• Watch: Rendering skin with subsurface scattering on LYNDA.COM

• View • Glass, mirror, chrome + HDRI

• Critique: Still Life with Materials

• hdr image textures/ lighting

• Check out: How to make your own HDR image

•Begin Work on: Assignment 1: filling out + texturing your environments

• finish roughing out your character - hand it in at the start of class

• UV mapping

• NHair

• Other Environment Shaders - Physical sun + sky, Image-Based Lighting, hdr, Portal light

Work on: Assignment 1

• uv map your character - hand it in at the start of class

• UV Mapping Continued

• Substance Procedural textures - demo links

Watch: Indirect Lighting, chapter 3, Lynda.com

• Assignment 2 due next class

• Complete uv map your character - hand it in at the start of class

• Review: Basic Camera panning and playblast

• motion path keys - and this link

• Intro to Rigging

• Start on: Assignment 3

• Texture your Characater sss texture and inital texture image files. Hand in next class

• Due - Textured Character

• Worktime

• NHair

• Rigging

• MR rendering an interior

• assignment due: finish Assignment 3

• Hand in + Informal Critique on Assignment 3

• Rigging Continued

• Work on: Assignment 4

Spring Break - March 24 - 28
• have fun + TAKE MANY NAPS •

• UV Mapping continued

• Work in class time

• Work on: Assignment 4

• homework due: Watch Lynda.com vids on UV Mapping online

• Set Driven

• SSS with image texture

• mental ray, baking textures and shadows

• File optimization

• Work on: Assignment 4

• Continuation of Paint Effects tool for creating complex surfaces

Extruding along a curve path

• Building Shader networks: a two sided shader vs. a layered shader

• Some Free Paint FX brushes

• Review of depth pass and lens blur filter in Photoshop

Compositing in Photoshop

To render using mental ray for Maya, IPR or other 3rd party renderers

FInish Assignment 4

Watch: Lynda Paint Effects, and short add on vid

• Final Project critiques -