7008 Introduction to 3Ds Max

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7008 Introduction to 3Ds Max

• Lecture 1

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• Shawn Eustace
• 3D artist 15yrs

Art Director at Pandemic Studios
Currently working on iphone games s-eustace_at_hotmai
l.com
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• Course Aims
• an introduction to 3d computer animation through
  the learning of basic techniques within 3Ds Max

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• Learning Outcomes
• An understanding of 3ds Max as a visual tool
• The ability to transfer the knowledge gained to
  another computer package
• The ability to visualize a scene prior to
  construction
• The ability to construct everything in the
  visualized scene from scratch

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• Lecture Content
• Lets quickly go over what we will being covering
  in this course

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• Assessment
• Exercises
• Assignment Breakdown
• Delivery (working files and showing progress)

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3dmax

• Widely used in film,tv,games and design.
• Very powerful visualization tool
• If you can think it, youre more than likely able
  to make it.

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Design examples
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Film Examples
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Games Examples
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Still the same
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Crysis now
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Crysis now2
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Mgs1 Ps1
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Mgs4 Ps3
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Mgs4 Ps3b
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Not much has changed
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But it looks heaps better

• The underlying construction is still the same
• Model
• Texture/Shaders
• Lighting
• Animation
• Rendering

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• So these are the aspect that we will be covering
  in the course
• These core aspects are transferable to other 3d
  packages
• If you understand these, you will have a solid
  understanding of 3d

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The core components
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Modeling

• When we are talking about modeling we are talking
  about the construction of the shape of an object
• The building blocks of modeling is the triangle

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Triangles
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Break

• 10 minutes
• And then some max

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Additional tutorials

• All the autodesk tutorials are here
• http//usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID
  123112id6837309linkID9241175
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• Step by step tutorials (image format)
• http//www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/lea
  rn3dsmax/
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• tutorials (movie format)
• http//www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/3ds-Max-
  Basics-Video-Tutorials/43148
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