Week+3

Week 3 watch and take notes on these videos: http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3ds-max/3ds-max-2010-the-graphite-modeling-tools-day-1/ Tutorial Video 1 and 2 Also post the video of the wine bottle and glasses that we created in class. Show these from a variety of angles.
 * Homework** -

Complete the Red Rocket tutorial in your text (Pages 184-236) UPDATE: Complete up to page 214. We will complete the rest in class together so make sure you are up to this point.

Labwork: Model the hand in your text from page 167. Create a movie that features the hand spinning in 360 degrees and post this to YouTube.

Here are concepts that we should be able to understand and utilize inside of 3DS Max.

Folder structure and saving projects

Interface Primitives Modifiers Parametric Deformers Viewport display options - edged faces, smooth and highlights, perspective and orthographic views Material editor basics Units and grid setup Transform tool Groups

Animating Auto key and set key options moving, copying, and deleting keyframes identifying keyframes by color Animating all different properties

Lathe Modifier

Vertecies Edges Polys

autogrid

Extrude, bevel, inset, slice, quick slice, bridge, chamfer, ignore backfacing Creating and editing shapes

Using the smooth tool Nurms subdivisions

Polygon Material IDs

NTSC

Watch the essential skills videos when Max first starts

Crash course videos are available at __ http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=9028939&linkID=9241175 __