digitalartuo's photostream

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Sculpt Mode Tutorial

Enjoyed sculpt mode? Check out this tutorial that goes into more depth:

PAPER Textures for project backgrounds

If you chose to do the sea creature project, here are some potential backgrounds to use. As a whole, these projects will look better if you have a sense of continuity between your projects. Using these old beaten up textures as the background will help. You can layer your 3D files over the paper in Photoshop (will look better than in blender).

FILE HERE

-John

DEPTH OF FIELD TUTORIAL (by Ben Simonds)

If you want a more thorough look at depth of field,
check out this tutorial and walk through by Blender
Artist Ben Simonds:

TUTORIAL DOF

Summer Syllabus + Course Tutorials

Syllabus:
http://pages.uoregon.edu/park/471/3D_syllabus_Summer11.pdf

Class Tutorials:
http://pages.uoregon.edu/art3d/471.html

Projecton 3D File

Hello team. Here is a .blend file that Steven Thierman put together. It was based on the old photograph, so some of the dimensions may need some tweaking. But...it's a good starting point for those of you who want to think about blocking your animation out in 3D space.
The file is HERE

Please bring some tests to class tomorrow. Also, we will be doing our first projection test on Wednesday night of next week (heads up).

Photoshop Visualization

PHOTOSHOP HELP FILE (note duplicated layers for each image):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16895263/VisualizeSpace.psd

Also, DECAL'ing textures (shooting them out an empty):
http://blendernewbies.blogspot.com/2007/08/video-basic-decaling-in-blender.html

2010 Projections

Ok! Here is the full night of projections from my 3D animation class! Was going to get this shit up faster, but then I graduated from college so I got a bit side tracked :P Enjoy! Bunch of cool stuff that my other class mates thought up.

Oh also...recording a projected video on a side of a building at night doesn't make for the best contrast and color, but it beats nothing :)

Here is my animation projected onto the side of Villard. the video didn't capture the video's color very well, but that's more because of the low light levels when showing shit at night :P ENJOY!

Reference Images

WORDS / REFERENCES

100 Words Associated with EMU Stairwell
Fountain
Gritty
Old
Angular
Spiral
Upward
Locomotion
Curvy
Dropoff
Geometric
Jagged
Secure
Hard
Weather/Climate
Time
Age
Erosion
Traffic
Wear and Tear
Algae
Design
Construction
Function
Framework
Texture
Materials
Lines
Arrays
Nude Descending Staircase
Perspective/Scale
Stairway to Heaven
Caution
Escher
Masking
Gray
Stained
Permanent
Forms for making
Castle
Dreary
1950
Baby Boomers
End of the War
Rock n Roll
Big Cars
Prosperity
Strength
Perceived Utopia
American Dream
New Beginnings
Lighting
Cold War
Nuclear Age
Yellow Stone
Ascension
Descension
Black and White TV
Radio
AM
Prop Airplanes
Cigarettes
Suburbia
Jazz
Women's Rights
Labor Unions
Food
Access
Central Hub
Break Time
Students
Government
Lunch
Architecture
Dozing off

Another Thorough and Great SynthEyes tutorial

If you still have a little love in heart for SynthEyes...check out this super thorough tutorial.



You may need to go to the YouTube site itself to watch this in HD (720p).

New Version of Blender (2.57)

Blender 2.5X is officially out of beta with the new release of Blender 2.57 (download from Blender.org).
Here is a video by Jonathan Williamson about the new changes:


HERE