Monday:
Class: Practical & Digital. Learned about filming with miniatures.
Miniatures Tutorial from BandDfilms on Vimeo.
Class: Animation 1. Came up with a concept and storyboard for a flying logo animation for fictional company “Firestorm Entertainment.”
Tuesday:
Class: Story Process 1. Lecture on the importance of story in animation and visual effects, watched Joseph Campbel interview.
Class: Lighting & Texturing. Introduced to XSI’s Render Tree. Lecture on difference between real life lighting and CG lighting.
Class: Storytelling Strategies. CLOSATS (Character, Location, Object, Situation, Action, Theme, Sound).
Wednesday:
Class: Modeling 1. Turned in directors chair. Began working on modeling curtains and a stage.
Class: Oral Communication for Media Arts. Talked about public speaking. Students gave introductions and spoke in front of the class.
Class: VFX & Compositing. Worked on UFO thing with spherical projection. Learned what “Final Gathering” means.
Thursday:
Class: History of Computer Graphics. CG Historical Timeline. Watched “The Drifter” and learned about the special effects in that film. Watched a report on Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad from 1961.
Watched Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison play Pong in 1969.
Watched new fluid simulations.
SPH – I see waves from Thiago Costa on Vimeo.
Class: Storytelling Strategies. Turned in one page biography of fictional character based on a real person. Talked about characters. Watched Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
Friday:
Class: Jumpstart Speaker Series. Flashpoint CEO Howard Tullman spoke on entrepreneurship, what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur.
