New Reference from Glen Vigus for Heather????

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150640632004588&set=a.434243299587.204713.187569074587&type=1&theater

harry potter deathly hallows animation

cool lighting and character design.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN1_h_eGitE

Photoshop Settings

Maya Depth Map Shadows

Get settings from the site Weecho gave us

Under Shadows Tab-
*Select Depth Map Shadows
*Resolution: 1024
*Filter size: 5
*Disk Mapped Dmaps: overwrite existing dmap(s)

Under Mental Ray tab-
*Use mental ray shadow map overrides
*take settings from Maya
*play with softness

You can also use the linear decay rate to soften the shadow over time

Modeling begins Tuesday; Animatic etc due Thursday

Week 7: Modeling begins
No Weecho this week.

T   28   Modeling begins: have list of objects (assets, set dressing, all but main character) & drawings 

Th  3/1 (After discussion in class Th 23, we decided to have Animatic etc due today):

DUE:   B&W Animatic.  (Bring B&W SB into Photoshop and then into After Effects. Line OK.) Timing discussed. 

                Values, Drama, Lighting discussed.  You can try out music any time in this process.
                The following support your pitch for your animatic.  Write these out.
DUE:   One sentence description of story.

DUE:   Motivation of character.

Notes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzi5JQYqpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljDlN2O5qCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKpJElwama8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ignag-NmY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1VnLG6fmfA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK2N3PvaFcs

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~bailey/Courses/Tutorials/RenderingDemo/DepthRayShadowDemo.html

https://vimeo.com/19024160

Good luck next week, everyone!

Frog puppet cg short

https://vimeo.com/19024160