Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Class Schedule

8/31 Week 1 - Introduction – Class will be asked to write a basic description of their interests in Environment Landscape Art. Students will be asked to search for environment inspiration, do sketches, and brainstorm ideas for a possible final project. Class will also be asked to re-familiarize themselves with 3D Studio Max.

Assignment: Students are asked to bring in examples of their personal body of work. Paintings, renders, drawings, photographs…Please think about and bring in some ideas of your goals for this class. Due Date, week two

9/7 Week 2 – Textures and Lighting Part 1

Teacher Jay Gillen– Class Will be focused on creating textures, materials, and lighting objects in 3dstudio max. This class will also be about refreshing students with the 3D Studio Max program

Assignment: Students will start to work on an assignment based off of Materials and Lighting. Due Date, week three

9/14 Week 3 - Textures and Lighting Part 2

Teacher Jay Gillen – Class Will be focused on creating textures, materials, and lighting objects in 3dstudio max. Crazybump and Photoshop will be covered.

Assignment: Students will finish their work their Materials and Lighting assignment. Due Date, week four

9/21 Week 4 – Architecture - Part 1

Teacher Shaun Martin– Class will be focused around modeling and texturing architectural elements.

Assignment: Students will start to work on an assignment based off of architecture. Due Date, week Five

9/28 Week 5 - Architecture - Part 2 Teacher Shaun Martin– Additional demos and lesions based around modeling and texturing architectural elements.

Assignment: Students will finish their architecture assignment.

Due Date, week Six

10/5 Week 6 – Organic Elements – Pt 1

Teacher Jay Gillen

Assignments will be based around creating grass, trees, and other organic elements that can compose a organic scene

Assignment: Students will start to work on an assignment based off of organic elements.

Due Date, week Seven

10/12 Week 7 - Organic Elements Pt 2 – Teacher Jay Gillen

Assignments will be based around creating grass, trees, and other organic elements that can compose a organic scene

Assignment: Students will finish their Organics assignment.

Due Week 8

10/19 Week 8 – Layers Pt 1-

Teacher Shaun Martin

Class will be focused around creating an environment using layered planes. The assignment will be to create a sense of space using 2d alphad planes and animating a camera to create a deep parallax effect.

Assignment: Assignment based off of Layers lessons in class

Due Week 9

10/26 Week 9 – Layers Pt 2-

Teacher Shaun Martin

More advanced techniques focused around creating an environment using layered planes.

Assignment: Finish Layers Assignment

Due Week 10

11/2 Week 10 – Review and Final Planning-

Teachers Jay Gillen and Shaun Martin

We will look at all assignments created during the semester so far, and start to plan for our final reviews

Assignment: Work on your final assignments, you will have 5 weeks to complete. Due date will be 12/14

12/14 Week 15 - Final Review – Final crits. All work for final consideration must be saved to your server space in an orderly fashion. Please include projects files as well as AVI and appropriate still file formats. All hard copy must be handed in a manila envelope.

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