3D Modeling FIU Summer 2009

Animated Tower Rafael C.

2009-08-08T06:18:00.000-07:00

City Project Rafael C.

2009-08-08T06:17:00.001-07:00

City+Extra for the Surface Project

2009-08-08T05:50:00.000-07:00

Exercise 6 - Animated Bldng. (R.Tabares) Summer C

2009-08-05T21:38:00.001-07:00

New City Extra Credit (R.Tabares) Summer C

2009-08-05T21:35:00.001-07:00

Final Requirements

2009-08-03T15:01:00.000-07:00

Final Requirements

The final is a CD that contains the following:

1 A folder containing the completed House Project.
Read over the assignment to make sure you have completed all the requirements.Include the most up to date renderings.

2 A folder containing the completed Surface Project.Read over the assignment to make sure you have completed all the requirements.

3 A folder containing all exercises. Both the Maya files and screenshots and/or renderings of each exercise. You should have most of these exercises in the City Plan, giving them context, utility, and scale.

4 A folder containing all Master's student stuff/extra credit.

a. A Erwin Hauer screen modeled and rendered.
b. A rendered section of the house project.
c. Facade variations of the animated tower exercise.
d. Formative 3 students should have their final studio project modeled and rendered.

I will also except other completed studies and projects modeled in Maya in the last semester. And when I say completed I mean don't give me a bunch of crap.

The file is due in class on Saturday August 8th at 9:30 am.

Animated Building

2009-08-01T00:40:00.000-07:00

Ex 5 +6.Responsive Structure+Animated Bldg

2009-07-31T16:01:00.000-07:00

Surface Project Re-UP-- Due 8/1/09

2009-07-29T05:17:00.000-07:00

I posted this 2 weeks ago, but due to the amount of questions I'm getting, I assume the assignment got lost in the blog postings.

Please review the below assignment, and e-mail me with any further questions. It is due this Saturday, 8/1/09

Surface Project

Surface Project Due 08/01/09

For the next project you will design a surface using the various techniques we covered in class.

The Parameters:

Create 3 to 5 polygon objects with the identical number of faces. These should be reasonable simple objects, derived from an inspirational image.

Use the ‘blend shape’ tool to morph these objects into one another in various no less than 5 iterations, animate the blends and create animation snapshots of the blends.

With no less than 3 of these blended iterations create a formal gradient across two dimensions (x,y) - with no less than 25 individual shapes.

Attach these shapes by extruding the faces, deleting the end faces, and merging the individual vertexes to the next shape over and/or using the 'bridge' tool.

In this project you must use various deformers, such as the clusters, lattice, joints, with the use of the non-linear deformers (bend, wave, sign…)

This project should be thought as an architectural pavilion- it should have a circulation, and loose program.
Use a ground plan and 3D person to give scale to the project.

Deliverables:

1. The inspiration and intention of your project.

2. Process, At least 5 print screens of the process, with a brief explanation for each.

3. 5 perspectives of the pavilion. Each perspective should be shown as a 1 wire frame print screen, 1 shaded print screen, 1 render ( using Maya software rendering using the GI system or mental ray rendering using ambient occlusion, or Maxwell) and 1 vector rendering.
All in a PowerPoint (2003) or PDF presentation- with one image per page, full bleed.

4. The Maya file.

Figure Evolution: Chair

2009-07-28T18:51:00.000-07:00

Animated Building

2009-07-28T14:41:00.000-07:00

Responsive Structure

2009-07-27T17:19:00.001-07:00

Exercise_5.responsive_structure

2009-07-26T22:07:00.000-07:00

Honeycomb_Exercise

2009-07-26T19:13:00.001-07:00

Final Requirements

2009-07-25T06:15:00.000-07:00

The final is a CD that contains the following:

1 A folder containing the completed House Project.
Read over the assignment to make sure you have completed all the requirements.
Include the most up to date renderings.

2 A folder containing the completed Surface Project.
Read over the assignment to make sure you have completed all the requirements.

3 A folder containing all exercises.
Both the Maya files and screenshots and/or renderings of each exercise. You should have most of these exercises in the City Plan, giving them context, utility, and scale.

4 Master's student stuff/extra credit.

1. A Erwin Hauer screen modeled and rendered.
2. A rendered section of the house project.
3. Facade variations of the animated tower exercise.
4. Formative 3 students should have their final studio project modeled and rendered.

I will also except other completed studies and projects modeled in Maya in the last semester. And when I say completed I mean don't give me a bunch of crap.

The file is due in class on Saturday August 8th at 9:30 am. Do not leave anything for me in my box or in the office, because I will not see it, and you will get a BIG FAT F on the final.

experimenting with deformers

2009-07-24T14:08:00.000-07:00

honeycomb exercise

2009-07-24T10:17:00.001-07:00

Blend Shape

2009-07-24T05:42:00.000-07:00

For those of you who missed the class here's a good tutorial on the use of the blend shape deformer:

http://designreform.net/2009/07/22/maya-2009-blend-shape-deformer/

Exercise 5 - Responsive Structure (R.Tabares) Summer C

2009-07-23T21:53:00.001-07:00

Exercise 4 Renderings

2009-07-23T13:42:00.000-07:00

Responsive Structure

2009-07-23T11:39:00.000-07:00

House 3 Render & Vector Extra Credit (R.Tabares) Summer C

2009-07-21T21:56:00.000-07:00

Honeycomb Extra Credit (R.Tabares) Summer C

2009-07-21T19:13:00.001-07:00

Cube Explosion Extra Credit (R.Tabares) Summer C

2009-07-21T17:03:00.001-07:00

Tile Gradient Extra Credit (R.Tabares) Summer C

2009-07-21T16:32:00.000-07:00

Screen Extracredit

2009-07-20T23:39:00.000-07:00

House 3 Maya Vector and Picture High Resolution

2009-07-20T21:23:00.002-07:00

House 3 Maya Vector

2009-07-20T21:23:00.001-07:00

House 3 Maya Vector

2009-07-20T21:21:00.001-07:00

Convercey Render

2009-07-20T18:37:00.001-07:00

Quito - Vectors on RGB pass

2009-07-20T16:26:00.000-07:00

Rendering Exercise

2009-07-20T15:35:00.000-07:00

screen

2009-07-19T21:26:00.001-07:00

Exercise_4.rendering_techniques

2009-07-18T21:11:00.000-07:00

carlos zapata

2009-07-18T12:20:00.000-07:00

maxwell/vector render

2009-07-18T11:23:00.000-07:00

Post Midterm Assignment RAFAEL C.

2009-07-18T06:25:00.001-07:00

exercise animated bldg

2009-07-18T06:17:00.000-07:00

1.Create a NURBS circle, radius = 1, scale the circle to 50x50.

2.Scale the CV to square off the circle.

3.Change the frames from 24 to 200.

4.In the channel editor go to channels > key all circle at 1. A red line should appear at the number one on the time slider.

5.Move the time slider to 200. Translate the circle to 200 on the z-axis. In the channel editor go to channels > key all the circle at 200. A red line should appear at the number 200 on the time slider.

6.In the animation menu go to animation> Create Animation Snapshot click on the box.

7.In the Create Animation Snapshot window select Time Slider, change the increments to 12.00 and select Fast Up Date on Demand.

8.A snap shot group should appear in the options window. Create 5 layers: structure, glass, slabs, snapshot and circle. Put the stuff on the right layers.

9.Turn off the snapshot layer. Select the circle. Go to the surface menu. Select surface>planer click on the box.

10.Select polygons, quads, standard fit, and turn the sliders on the bottom of the window all the way down.

11.Extrude the polygon surface .337, use the “local translate z” for an exact measure.

12.Select the extruded polygon surface. In the animation menu go to animation> Create 13.Animation Snapshot click on the box.

14.In the Create Animation Snapshot window select Time Slider, change the increments to 12.00 and select Fast Up Date on Demand.

15.Put the snapshot in the slab layer and turn it off. Open the layer with the snap shot of circles.

16.In the surface menu, go to surface>loft, click on the box. Select NURBS and make the section span= 2

17. Put lofted surface on glass layer. Close snapshot layer.

18.Select the lofted surface. In the surface menu go to edit curve>duplicate surface curve.

19.In the side view, select the horizontal curves and delete them. (Or put them on a layer and turn them off—you can always use them for something else.)

20.Create a NURBS circle, scale the circle to .337, and extrude the circle along the vertical curves (Just like tutorial 3).

21.Put all those extruded surfaces and vertical curves on the layer structure.

22.Turn all the layers on. In the options window select the original circle. Move the time slider all the way to 200.

23.Scale the circle on the x to 30.

24.Rotate it on the z 45

25.In the channel editor go to channels > key all

26.Put a plane underneath the tower and render it.

Surface Project

2009-07-18T05:57:00.000-07:00

Surface Project Due 08/01/09

For the next project you will design a surface using the various techniques we covered in class

The Parameters:
Create 3 to 5 polygon objects with the identical number of faces. These should be reasonable simple objects, derived from an inspirational image.

Use the ‘blend shape’ tool to morph these objects into one another in various no less than 5 iterations, animate the blends and create animation snapshots of the blends.

With no less than 3 of these blended iterations create a formal gradient across two dimensions- with no less than 25 individual shapes.

Attach these shapes by extruding the faces, deleting the end faces, and merging the individual vertexes to the next shape over and/or using the 'bridge' tool.

In this project you must use various deformers, such as the clusters, lattice, joints, with the use of the non-linear deformers (bend, wave, sign…)

This project should be thought as an architectural pavilion- it should have a circulation, and loose program.

Use a ground plan and 3D person to give scale to the project.

Deliverables:

1. The inspiration and intention of your project.

2. Process, At least 5 print screens of the process, with a brief explanation for each.

3. 5 perspectives of the pavilion. Each perspective should be shown as a 1 wire frame print screen, 1 shaded print screen, 1 render ( using Maya software rendering using the GI system or mental ray rendering using ambient occlusion, or Maxwell) and 1 vector rendering.

All in a PowerPoint (2003) or PDF presentation- with one image per page, full bleed.

4. The Maya file.

exercise responsive structure

2009-07-18T05:49:00.000-07:00

Responsive Structure Tutorial

1 Set preferences and cameras
2 Select surfaces in menu sets
3 Go to create -NURBS primitive- plane- click box and reset tool.
4 Scale plane to 50’- 50’
5 Go to edit NURBS- rebuild surfaces- click box and set number of U spans to 10 and number of V spans to 10
6 Create layer for surface- add surface
7 With surface selected got to edit curves- duplicate surface curves
8 Create two new layers: curves1, curves2 – put U curves on one layer, and V curves on the other.
9 Turn off surface layer and one of the curve layers
10 Move one set of curves down (Z) 1’
11 Engage snap to point
12 Go to create- NURBS primitive- circle- click on box and rest tool
13 Snap circle at the end of the first curve and rotate 90 degrees on X
14 Select circle then first curve go to surfaces- extrude- click on box- select tube and at path- extrude
15 Select circle and second curve- type g- repeat for all curves
16 Select all extruded tubes and place them on new layer called structure
17 Put circle on new layer called circle
18 Turn on surface layer and select- right click- control vertex
19 Manipulate CVs and watch structure respond.
20 Manipulate circle and watch structure respond.
21 Go to edit Offset surface

22 import into city blocks and give it a scale

Picture Window House

2009-07-18T05:47:00.001-07:00

Exercise_3.hauer_mesh

2009-07-17T15:42:00.000-07:00

Rendering Exercise

2009-06-27T06:16:00.000-07:00

MAYA SOFTWARE:

Open the cube tutorial
Make a new cube and scale it on the x and y to 50’ by 50’, use it for a plane under the cubes
Open the hypershader and create a phong, blinn and lambert.
Adjust the colors and transparency of materials.
Apply the materials randomly to the cubes.

Import the GI lighting system.
File>import>GI lighting system.
Select the imported GI lighting system groups in the options window and press ctrl G to group the GI Lights. Scale the lights out and surround the cubes.

Create a directional light, scale it move it up and duplicate it. Move the duplicate light over and rotate it towards the cubes. Go to the attribute editor of the duplicate directional light, scroll down and open the shadow tab. Click on the ‘use depth map shadows’. Adjust the resolution to over 512.

Select the perspective camera in the option window, open the attribute editor for the camera, and open the environment tab. Adjust the color to white.

Open the render settings window.
Under the ‘common’ tab adjust the image size to 640x480, and adjust the resolution to 200.
Under the Maya software tab, change the “quality’ to “production quality”, open the ray trace tab and click the ray trace box.

Render the scene

When the render is finished, save the render as a jpeg.

Save the file.

AMBIENT OCULSSION:

Open the cube tutorial and make three new materials.
Adjust the color and transparency of materials.

Select the perspective camera in the option window, open the attribute editor for the camera, and open the environment tab. Adjust the color to white.

Right click the mouse on “crate maya node” box and select “create mental ray node”.

Open the “textures” tab, and middle click the mouse on “mb_amb_occlusion”, hold down the middle button, and drag over to one of the materials. Select “ambient color” from the list. Double click on the “mb_amb_occlusion”, and in the attribute editor increase the samples to 512. Repeat for all materials.
Apply the materials to the cubes.
Open the render settings window.
In the “render using:” box select “mental ray”
Under the ‘common’ tab adjust the image size to 640x480, and adjust the resolution to 200.
Click on the Mental Ray tab, and change the production preset box to “Production”

Render

Save render as jpeg.

Save file.

Maxwell rendering:

Open the cube tutorial
Make a new cube and scale it on the x and y to 50’ by 50’, use it for a plane under the cubes

Go to window> settings and preferences > plug-in manager and click on all the boxes, and click refresh.

Open the hypershader and create three Maxwell materials.
Double click on the Maxwell materiasl and use the wizard to create a glass and car paint and plastic.
Apply the materials to the cubes.

Open the render settings window.
In the “render using:” box select “Maxwell”
Under the ‘common’ tab adjust the image size to 640x480, and adjust the resolution to 200.

Click on the “Maxwell” tab.

Increase the time to 20 minutes
Increase the samples to 1000

Click on the “Environment” tab.
Click on sky options

The physical sky will create a realistic sky, and is controlled with the various controls.
At minimum adjust the hour and click on the enable sun.

The sky dome will create a blank background-- adjust the color.

Render the scene.
The Maxwell render window will start up. When it starts you can go back to the maya file and continue working.

When the Maxwell rendering is finished, save the file as a jpeg.

www.maxwellrender.com

VECTOR RENDERING:

Select the perspective camera in the option window, open the attribute editor for the camera, and open the environment tab. Adjust the color to white.

Open the render settings window and select Maya Vector in the render using box.
In the image format box, select “encapsulated postscript (eps)”.
Change the image size to the 320x240 preset, in the preset window.

Click on the Maya Vector tab.
Change the “Detail level preset” window to “high”

Click the fill objects box off

Click the include edges box on

Change the “Render optimization” box to “Good”

Render the scene.

When the render is complete you need to open the eps file in either Illustrator or Photoshop. The eps file will be deep in the Maya files and the path will be on the common tab of the render settings window.
It looks like this:
Path:C:/Documents and Settings/your name/Documents/maya/projects/default/scenes//

In Illustrator or Photoshop overlap the vector on other renders

Tile Gradient

2009-06-26T18:10:00.000-07:00

Exercise-5

2009-06-26T17:55:00.000-07:00

Exercise-4

2009-06-26T17:54:00.001-07:00

Exercise-3

2009-06-26T17:53:00.000-07:00

mshanti honeycomb

2009-06-26T15:43:00.001-07:00

Screens

2009-06-26T14:51:00.000-07:00

Gayluz Rivera-Claudio

mshanti array

2009-06-26T13:39:00.001-07:00

mshanti screen

2009-06-26T13:35:00.001-07:00

mshanti building

2009-06-26T12:04:00.001-07:00

cube

2009-06-26T11:01:00.000-07:00

site model + screen

2009-06-24T04:27:00.000-07:00

Planes Exercise

2009-06-20T09:04:00.001-07:00

Exercise 4 Mesh Screen

2009-06-20T09:03:00.000-07:00

City Exercise

2009-06-20T08:58:00.000-07:00

textured wall

2009-06-20T08:15:00.001-07:00

Ex 5 Textured Wall

2009-06-20T06:25:00.000-07:00

House Project Due 7/11/09

2009-06-20T06:13:00.000-07:00

House project:Compositional modeling Due: 7/11/09

Deliverables: A CD that contains-
1. A PowerPoint (2003) presentation that consists of:
A) An introduction - 1 slide of building info and 1 slide of various photos of the building.

B) Process – At least 2 slides of screen shots with short explanations of how you modeled the building.

C) 5 perspectives of the model.Each perspective should be shown as:1 wire frame print screen,1 shaded print screen,1 vector render 640x480 at a resolution of 200,1 Maya software using global illumination at a resolution of 200,1 Mental ray rendering with ambient occlusion at a resolution of 200, and1 Maxwell rendering. 3o images total

2. The Maya file of your 3D model.

EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE MODELED IN MAYA.

PLEASE KEEP THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION AT SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE---ONE IMAGE PER POWER POINT SLIDE---SAVE THE POWERPOINT IN 2003

Exercise 4- Erwin Hauer Screen

2009-06-19T21:40:00.001-07:00

2009-06-14T20:29:00.000-07:00

Exercise 3 - Hauer Screen (R.Tabares) Summer C

2009-06-14T07:31:00.001-07:00

Exercise 4 - Render Technics (R.Tabares) Summer C

2009-06-13T17:56:00.000-07:00

Josefina_Exercise2

2009-06-13T09:05:00.001-07:00

Josefina_Exercise 4

2009-06-13T08:59:00.001-07:00

Exercise 4- Erwin Hauer Screen

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Hauer Screen

1. Create 1’ by 1’ cube.

2. Right click on cube and select face.

3. Select four of the 6 faces, top and sides.

4. Go to edit mesh, uncheck “keep faces together”.

5. Extrude the selected faces. In channel editor, local translate Z =2.

6. Local scale X=.5 Y=.5.

7. Press delete to delete the selected faces.

8. Right click on the object, select object mode.

9. Select snap to point, and move center pivot to right side.

10. “Ctrl d” to duplicate object and snap to the left of original obj.

11. “Shift d” to smart duplicate approximately 8 times.

12. Select all objects and move center point (hold down the d).

13. “Ctrl d” to duplicate and “Shift d” to smart duplicate approximately 8 times.

14. Select the top left hand object, go to Modify Convert and click on the box next to “Polygons to Subdiv”. Turn everything up as high as you can, and click off “keep original”

15. Select the rest of the objects and press “g”, this will repeat the command.

16. On the top left side select the surface menu.

17. Select the two top object on the left side.

18. Go to Subdiv Surfaces, Attach and click on the box.

19. In the “Subdiv Attach Options” box, set your Threshold= 1.

20. Hold shift, select the next obj. over and press “g”. Repeat until all objects are combined.

21. “Ctrl d” to duplicate, move one of the objects translate Y= 2.5, Z=2.5.

22. Make two layers, put one object on one and the other object on the second layer. Turn off one of the layers.

23. Right click on the obj, and select the Vertex

24. Select the vertex in between the attached objects.

25. Move the vertex back just past the other obj.

26. Repeat for the other object.

27. Render

28. If you’re a graduate student or an undergrad and trying to get an A in this class,

look at http://www.erwinhauer.com/ for more examples of Hauer’s work. And try to make one using the same techniques as above.

Ex 4 City

2009-06-12T05:52:00.002-07:00

2009-06-12T05:52:00.001-07:00

RC Tower Exercise #2

2009-06-10T08:01:00.000-07:00

Ex 3 Honey Comb

2009-06-07T22:53:00.000-07:00

--------------NO CLASS 6/6-------------

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My car was just flooded up to the windows, and may or may not start in the morning. Please continue to work on the house assignment, and I'll post a new exercise. E-mail me if you have any questions.

cube-jblumenthal

2009-06-05T13:54:00.001-07:00

tower- jblumenthal

2009-06-05T13:43:00.000-07:00

RC Cube Exercise #1

2009-06-05T12:23:00.001-07:00

House #1 - Carlos Zapata, Klein Residence, Quito

2009-06-04T13:07:00.000-07:00

I picked up the only 2 books I could find this published in and scanned everything. Images taken from "The Restlessness of Architecture" and "Home: New Directions in World Architecture and Design."

Split archive in RAR format:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

site

2009-06-02T16:04:00.001-07:00

GP Exercise #3

2009-06-02T14:13:00.001-07:00

GP Exercise #2

2009-06-02T14:12:00.001-07:00

GP Exercise #1

2009-06-02T14:10:00.001-07:00

Honeycomb Extra Credit

2009-06-01T17:09:00.000-07:00

2009-05-31T21:23:00.001-07:00

Tower Exercise

2009-05-31T21:21:00.000-07:00

Exercise One

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tower

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Excerscise 1+2 Stephen Parra

2009-05-30T08:57:00.000-07:00

Exe 3 Extra cradit

2009-05-30T06:25:00.000-07:00

Exercise 2 Building

2009-05-30T06:22:00.000-07:00

Ex 2 Basic Building

2009-05-30T06:15:00.000-07:00

Ex 2 Basic Building

2009-05-30T06:11:00.000-07:00

Ex 1 Cube

2009-05-30T06:06:00.000-07:00

Exercise_2

2009-05-30T05:39:00.001-07:00

exc2 AND exc3_DAVIDmARQUEZ

2009-05-30T02:54:00.001-07:00

exercise 2 - tower

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Exercise 2

2009-05-29T16:25:00.001-07:00

Exercise 1

2009-05-29T16:19:00.000-07:00

Honeycomb

2009-05-28T18:52:00.001-07:00

honeycomb_Exercise #3

2009-05-28T15:19:00.000-07:00

honeycomb

2009-05-25T15:10:00.001-07:00

2009-05-24T14:58:00.000-07:00