• Complete second third of the intro Modeling tutorial project (approximately an hour and 40 minutes: Modeling Interiors in Maya OR Modeling an Organized Head Mesh in Maya. Hand in your scene file at the start of the next class. Be sure to give it a name that includes your name. Here is where to hand it in: Homework Folder

• Customizing the Interface

• Naming meshes in the Outliner
• Duplicate and Duplicate Special
• Grouping
• Using the Script Editor
• Adding a Custom Shelf button: Ctrl + Shift + click the menu item
• Tearing off Menus for workflow, and Display of UI elements
• If you need to delete userPrefs.mel and windowPrefs.mel

• Wonderful Visual Guide to Topolgy - LOOK
• Sculpting a polygon model - overview
• Sculpting Tools
• Sculpt Geometry Tool overview

• Work in class on Tutorial

• Complete THE SECOND THIRD (approximately an additional 1 hour and 40 minutes) of either Modeling Interiors in Maya OR Modeling an Organized Head Mesh in Maya.

Hand in your scene file HERE in the next class. Be sure to put it in a folder that has your name on it.

• Nonlinear Deformers + Lattice Deformer - Download Deformer Scene

• Links Substance tutorial docs are now in the Texture Links Doc

• Begin: Homework 1: Throwing Down a Space - Due in one week

• Watch: Auto Retopology Comes to Maya

• Review: Retopologizing - how to automatically retopologize meshes Maya via: polyRemesh; and polyRetopo;

• Download Substance Painter

• Substance & Maya Integration - Step by step info

• Arnold - Baking textures and Rendering Selection to Texure

• How to Publish an sbsar file

• Arnold Rounded Corners Shader

• Arnold Clip Geo

• Understanding the different Arnold Texture Parameters: Physically Based Rendering

Overview of Parameters
Base Color

• Work in Class Time & Individual Meetings: Continue building out models for Final Projects

• Work on: Filling out + Texturing your environments

• Work On: Still Life with Materials - Due on WEDNESDAY NEXT WEEK

• Demo: Creating 3D textures - including displacements - from photos in Photoshop using Filter -> 3D -> create Normal Map

• Work in Class time

Due: Still Life with Materials - due on Wednesday

• Work in Class time

Introduction to UV Mapping

• What Are UV's?
• What is UV Mapping?
• Examples of UV texture maps for placement

• Download: UV Mapping Project

• Watch: UV Map a Stool in Maya 2022: Basics and download the stool file here

• Watch and follow: Intro to Substance Painter video 1 and video 2

• Arnold aiAmbient Occlusion and aiMixing shaders (ie, layered texture)

• Using Curves for motion: control curve, and motion path

• Camera fly through via Motion Path

• motion path keys - and this link

• Review: Basic Camera panning and playblast

• Basic Keying, keyframing

• File optimization

Artist links:
Joey Camacho
Biothing
Michael Hansmeyer
NodeBox 1 Gallery
Albert Omoss

• WORK ON: Story Board Assignment

• Watch: ALL videos in Chapters 4 and 5 Maya Cinemaphotography

Watch: Motion Path, KeyFraming, Graph Editor, and Hypergraph Editor

Consult: this tutorial and this tutorial on working with keys in the graph editor

Work in Class time

• Review: Keyframing and the Graph Editor

• https://conceptartworld.com/

• Further on Rendering Engines: Vector Rendering, Toons Shader

• DUE: Complete your 12 storyboard renders from Assignment 2; Composite the 12 frames in to (a) storyboard page(s), save this as a tif or a pdf (roughly 12" x 11" @ 180 dpi). You can make some frames larger or smaller to stress the length of that shot.

• Use one of these storyboard templates, and complete with comments describing the scene / shot contents.
Storyboard language
Basic Example
Template 1
Template 2
Template 3
Template 4
Template 5

• Mid-semester Project Feedback/ Critique (Group Session) with Story Board Assignment I

• Work on: Filling out + Texturing your environments

Watch: RENDER SETTINGS IN ARNOLD

Review: Learning Scene Examples, Arnold

• Mid-semester Project Feedback/ Critique (Group Session) with Story Board Assignment I

• Work on: Filling out + Texturing your environments

• Work in Class Time

• Ambient Occlusion and Layered Shader, HDR lighting
• Using Depth of Field on Camera with Arnold
Download Test File

• Test your camera flight path

• Download TeamViewer - installer link: https://www.teamviewer.com/en-us/download/
LOGIN INFO WILL BE EMAILED TO YOU

• Other Environment Shaders - Physical sun + sky, Image-Based Lighting, Portal light - HDRI lighting basics with Skydome

Prepping Files for renderfarm Rendering

• Renderfarm Guide for the NMA LAB

• Using the Renderfarm - how to submit your work: Deadline HOW TO

  • Review: Render Settings Common Tab and Batch Rendering and Arnold Render Settings

• Topologies (Excerpt) - Tiepolo

• Assignment Submit your project for the Renderfarm: Render your first complete flythrough of your animation. Renders must be at least 10-30 frames in length.

Make sure you arrive on Wednesday with 10-30 rendered image files

• Hand in: 1) all the frames of the animation render

• Review of how to submit your files to the Renderfarm

• How to convert an image sequence into a video file:

• General Principles
• Mac Only: Using Maya Fcheck or Quicktime Video
• Via ImageJ (free and cross-platform)
• Other suggested (free) software options: VideoDub (PC only), VideoMach (PC only), Premiere Rush CC, DaVinci Resolve 15, VideoShot

• Begin Work on: Assignment 3

• Hand in: Assignment 2: Re-Rendered: Your key-framed camera fly through on the renderfarm.

• Arnold Ambient Occlusion, Layered Shader, and render layers (AOV's) - Download Sample File Here

• Work on: Assignment 3

• Continue Work on: Assignment 3

CRUNCH TIME!! Keep working on your modeling, lighting, and texturing

Resubmit your work to the Renderfarm if it failed the first time, with corrections to Camera fly through keying

Download + install Agisoft Metashape

• Work on: Assignment 3

PHOTOGRAMMETRY WORKSHOP DAY 1 -!

Camera Basics for Photogrammetry

3D capture flowchart

Photogrammetry in Games

Max Kawula and Jason Jimenez Video

Download Green Rock dataset

Continue Work on: Assignment 3

• Intro to the Paint Effects tool for creating complex surfaces

• Some Free Paint FX brushes

• Rebuilding Mesh, UV projections, and painting in textures

• Assignment 3 DUE: UV mapping + render

Watch: How to create grass and fog with paint FX
Watch: How to create a pond/ nature scene with Paint Effects

Substance Painter / Maya Workflow

Mash Network Standins

• Due: Assignment 4

Group flight - photogrammetry

• Group Critique on Assignment 4

• Review expectations of Homework 5 (Full Render)

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Augmented Reality / Unity Export / Maya

• Exporting a Scene from Maya to Unity
• How to Optimize your models in Maya for export to Unity, and view them in Mobile VR (Oculus Quest/Quest 2)

• Maya to VR: videos and downloads

• Maya to Vive / Oculus overview (video)
• Maya 2022 - Introducing Create VR (video)
• DOWNLOAD: VR Plugin (PC only)
• MARUI for Maya2022 (PC only)

• Using the VR_camera

• Rendering a 360 image (or movie)
• View it in a 360 degree image viewer
• More in depth Tutorial :How To Render 360 Degree Spherical Renders For YouTube and Virtual Reality

Using a stereoscopic camera in Maya (be sure to load up the stereoCamera plugin in Maya)
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ADDITIONAL HELPFUL TUTORIALS:

• How to make realistic looking skin in Painter
• Low Key Lighting Style in Maya/ Arnold
• Facebuilder for Blender Guide

FIRST Pass of final render due on MONDAY (next week)

• Homework 5: submit your entire project to the renderfarm. Render must be complete (not just submitted) by the start of the next class. Be sure to submit final projects at least 24 hours in advance! (DUE ON MONDAY NOV 29)

• EAT RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS OF FOOD

• TAKE MANY NAPS

• Due: Homework 5: first render must be complete, not just submitted

• Denoising with OptiX and Arnold

• Composting - AOV's / Adobe Premiere

• Work in class

• Edit + RE-Render your fly through

• Continue compositing your rendered shots

• Render Layers and overrides

• Render Layer overrides for materials

• Color Management and Linear Workflow

• Final Compositing - WORK IN CLASS

• Final Video Compositing and Editing

• Final Video Compositing and Editing