Nurbs Design

Here is the NURBS design I made. I decided to make a face because it helps represent my cartoony drawing style. I focus on a lot of things that don't look realistic, so I felt that it was appropriate to continue down that line. I used flattened spheres to make the larger parts of the eyes. I then used smaller spheres to make the pupiles. I then used a cone to make the nose and a ring to make the mouth. All of these came together well and I was very happy with the way this looked. I think that I prefer working with polygons though.

Bouncing Ball Animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUzE5Rx7pXs

For this project, we needed to take the 4 section bouncing ball tutorial and adjust it to make a more unique video. I changed the color of the floor, but kept the original pattern. I turned up the intensity of the flames to make them look thicker. I adjusted the trajectory of the ball so that it bounces evenly with the first and last bounce, but higher for the 2nd. I raised the ring up higher as well. I adjusted the spot light so that the ball would be jumping into an unknown black area. I also angled the camera differently so that you could see the ball from a different angle. The face really looks scared going through the fire ring and into the darkness! Overall, I was very happy with the way this project came out and I look forward to doing a lot more animation.

1st Four Essential Skill Movies

Here are my notes from the first four Essential Skill Movies.

Zoom, Pan, & Roll

·      See Objects Up Close – Press F Key

·      To tumble (spin view) – Hold Option key and drag with left mouse button.

·      To track (pan view) – Hold option key and drag with middle mouse button.

·      To dolly (zoom) – Hold the option key and drag with right mouse button

Move, Rotate, Scale

·      To see four views – Press Spacebar

·      You get the top, left, and right – orthographic views

·      Move button, Rotate button, Scale button

·      Three axises, x,y,z

·      To move an object freely or scale uniformly –drag the central handle

Create and View Objects

·      NURBS and Polygons

·      Polygons are made of faces, each one is flat

·      NURBS are made of curves, smooth

·      Select NURBS Primitives or Polygon Primitives from the Create Menu and select a shape.

·      Click and drag to create the shape.

·      Channel Box displays information for an object.

·      The transform attributes (position, scale) are at the top

·      View shape attributes – Click word under INPUTS

·      In Panel Tool Bar – Click the 3 different cubes to switch between display objects.

·      Control how smooth objects look in the view with the 1,2,3 keys.

o   Doesn’t change the real shape of the object

Component Selection

·      Can work on entire NURBS/Polygons in object mode

·      Work on parts of an object in component mode.

·      To select a component, press and hold over the object with the right mouse button and select the one you want.

·      When objects overlap, you select them.

·      Deselect all, click empty space.

·      To add to existing selection, press shift and click

·      Deselect some, press control and click

 

IMM 210 Intro

This blog is meant to document all of my work during the 2012 Spring semester for IMM 210.