oct 2

prelim

• discuss trip to electronic music studio
• discuss homework - show? maybe Thurs

3D animation

• surfaces, polygons, and all that
• lighting
• camera
• textures
• motion, animation, 'rigging'
• rendering
• scripts and attachments
• special effects : particle clouds, etc
• *lots* of complexity
• how to
  • change your point of view
  • select 'objects' or parts of objects
  • move, rotate, extrude, ... objects
  • create textures and apply them to surfaces
  • rig figures
  • move camera and animate
  • draw mode : wireframe etc
  • object vs edit mode (and others)
  • outline window, button window, others
  • layer buttons
  • lights, cameras, textures ... (whew!)

blender

• user base in hundreds of thousands
• links on resources page
  • tutorials : no substitute for playing around
  • tufts online course notes

examples

• mindfields
  • http://www.artificial3d.com/mindfields/
• see blender stuff
• http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=label:blender

starting points

• window panes all customizable
• one hand on keyboard, one on 3-button mouse
• mac mouse : 'left' is regular click; 'middle' is alt-ctl-shift-click; 'right' is cmd-click. Drag the top menu down to see the global preferences which controls some of this.
• press-release key changes 'mode'; depends on where mouse is
• changing your view : view menu, center, pan (shift-middle), zoom (wheel),
• object vs edit mode
• selecting stuff
• suzanne

explorations

• your first tutorial : gus walks
• downstairs? We'll see what time allows.

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