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Calendar, IMED 1391.7001 - 3D Animation - Fall 2005

by Sharon Huston

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All assignments are due by the next class session unless noted.

  • Week One
    • Tuesday Aug. 30
      • IMPORTANT:

        If you are receiving Financial Aid grants or loans and are enrolled in a Distance Learning class, you must show participation in this class prior to the certification date (the 12th day after the start date of the class) by e-mailing/contacting the instructor. Students taking open enrollment classes that do not have traditional semester start dates should make note of the start date of their class.

        Do not drop or stop attending any class without consulting the Financial Aid Office. Changes in your enrollment level and failing grades may require that you repay financial aid funds.

      • Syllabus
      • Lab Policies
      • Open Lab Information
      • Student Profile
      • Exercise: Install GameSpace and AdventureExplorer on laptop
      • Exercise: Watch (part of) tutorial on Beginning Game Graphics CD
      • Reading: Ch. One Beginning Game Graphics
      • Exercise: Answer Discussion Questions and any two Exercises at end of Ch. 1
    • Thursday Sept. 1
      • Lecture, Ch. 4
      • Exercise: Ch. 4 Ex. 1
      • Exercise: Ch. 4 Discussion Questions (email, please)
  • Week Two
    • Tuesday Sept. 6
      • Discusion Questions
      • Chapter Five
    • Thursday Sept. 8
      • Basic Maya Tutorials
  • Week Three -- Terragen!!!
    • Tuesday Sept. 13
    • Thursday Sept. 15
      • No class -- design class extended into this class
  • Week Four
    • Tuesday Spet. 20
      • Survey, Photoshop
      • Mary and Ken - either Ch. 6 or 7 in Photoshop Illuminated
      • Michael and Zack - Fish Exercise
    • Thursday Sept. 22
      • Skills check-off -- can you do the following in GameSpace Light?
        • Create a geometric primitive
        • Color (texture) a geometric primitive
        • Rotate, scale, and move a primitive
        • Multiply a primitive -- make a stack of pancakes, for example?
      • Chapter 6 in Beginning Game Graphics
  • Week Five
    • Tuesday Sept. 27
      • More Photoshop -- Zack and Michael: Selection Tools, Mary and Ken: Texture cont'd
    • Thursday Spet. 29
      • 'Vacation' to work on Game Desin lessons
  • Week Six
    • Tuesday October 4
      • 3D Lecture/practice
    • Thursday October 6
      • 3D Lecture/Practice
      • Project: Speakers
  • Week Seven
    • Tuesday October 11
      • Lecture: Extrude Polygns
      • Class time to work on speakers
  • Week Eight
    • Tuesday
    • Thursday
  • Week Nine
    • Tuesday
    • Thursday
  • Week Ten
    • Tuesday
    • Thursday
  • Week Eleven
    • Tuesday
    • Thursday
  • Week Twelve
    • Tuesday
    • Thursday
  • Week Thirteen
    • Tuesday
    • Thursday
  • Week Fourteen
    • Tuesday
    • Thursday
  • Week Fifteen
    • Tuesday
    • Thursday
  • Week Sixteen
    • Tuesday
      • Class Evaluation
      • Important Closing Survey and Notes

 

Key

  • ic = in class
  • Bookwork = Chapters in text. You should work through each chapter, performing all exercises. Bookwork chapters are required assignments (ungraded and checked off as completed) and are to be uploaded to the NL server.
  • Readings = Articles for reading--not graded.
  • Topics = Short papers or projects. These assignments may be uploaded to the NL server or sent to your instructor as attachments to e-mail messages. These assignments are graded.
  • Quizzes = One online multiple-choice quiz over the copyright guidelines. This quiz will be scored automatically and the score sent to your instructor. Six other short-answer quizzes over the text chapters are to be completed in MS Word and submitted as attachments to e-mail messages. All quizzes are graded based on a 100 point system.
  • Exercises = Ungraded assignments that expand on material in the textbook. Some are required and some are optional. See calendar for required or optional.
  • Projects =  Four graded assignments. Projects take from the equivalent of two class sessions to an entire semester. Uploaded to the NL server. A project evaluation form is used. See calendar for the form.
  • References = Documents provided for additional information. You will never be tested on a reference document. If you're falling behind, the reference documents should be ignored.
  • Admin = Administrative items needed to make the class run more smoothly.
  • Notes = Tips on how to handle particular assignments.