***COMPUTER ARTs FINAL***

1. Wipe keyboards and computer screens

2. Clean room - trash

3. Backup your work to Dropbox.com

4. Turn in final assignment




Goals and Reflections

Goals

Write a short statement that describes what you plan to accomplish by the end of the week on your project.

Reflections

What did you accomplish this week (post your work, inspiration or research)?

What did you learn?

What is your next objective to be completed?

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Overall Project Goals & Week 1

Independent Project Starting Goals


I will be attempting the modeling of a snowy mountainous landscape, the creating of a digital analog of a red fox, and the rigging an animation of the fox in that landscape. The end result will be a cinematic intro to my FoxTale logo, which can be seen at http://i.imgur.com/WZ08s.jpg. I will fully model the fox, which should be an interesting experiment in using maya’s fur tools. The snow on the landscape is something I haven't done yet either.


In total, this project will produce around 3-6 seconds of footage, which means that although I am only creating one scene, I will need to render around 72-144 individual frames. I have prior experience in video editing, so assembling the final product should not be too much of a challenge.


I will be calling this endeavor the “nog project” after the Welsh name fox fox, “llwynog”. Apart from the weekly blog posts, I will have a running progress log at http://stephenbelden.imgur.com/nog_project_development.


Week 1: Feb 21 - Feb 25


I will be modeling the fox first, before the landscape. By thursday I will have all of my orthographic views sketched an put into maya, and I will have a rough 3d modeling of that.

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