oct 9
Show and tell
... with your sound projects.
- sophie
- parker
- errin
- adam
- rachel
- liz
- zach
- chlirissa
- spencer
3D
Heading up the "complicated" ladder :
3D programs tend to have lots of things
you can do
- place cameras
- place lights
- create meshes and other "objects"
- distort, connect, modify 'em
- paint "textures" on surfaces
- "render" the scene to get a polished image
One place to start reading about this in
the abstract is
These days there's a full fledged economic
ecosystem of people who design components
of things (clothes, hair, fairy princesses, ...)
and sell them to other people who stick them
into larger 3D scenes with various lighting
and/or animation stuff.
For example,
I'm going to show two applications, both free.
In the two weeks that you have, you probably
should pick one and work through some of the
tutorials for that one to get a taste of
some of the things it can do.
sketchup
Google bought these folks because their
architecture design (primarily) tool
is simpler to use than most. The models
that it creates can be shown from within
Google Earth. And there's an accessible
"warehouse" of objects.
And lots of video tutorials and docs.
... do a short demo
- push/pull
- lining things up
- working from photos of buildings
- typing in dimensions
blender
At the other end of the power/ease-of-use spectrum is blender.
Open source, full animation and game development, competes with Maya and the big boys.
Fairly unique user interface. Wikipedia says "Blender has had a reputation as being difficult to learn."
It's been used to create several animations / games that have been released as open source.
Some examples on Jim's laptop :
- making_of_elephants_dream.mp4
- elephants-1024-h264-st-aac.mov
- BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4
- yofrankie_demo1.2
... do a short demo.
(I've uploaded the video files as attachments to this page.)
task
Create a 3D model.
If you choose sketchup, I'd suggest a campus building or room.
If blender, then perhaps an artifact like a "magic sword".
In either case, you should probably
work through one of the tutorials first.
![[paper clip]](/courses/source/wiki_images/paper_clip_tilt.png)
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