Squash

Bouncing Ball complete!

1/25/12

Bouncing ball on way

Essential Skill Moves 1-4

1. Zoom, Pan & Roll
See objects close up: F
Option + Left Click: Tumble
Option + Hold down scroll button: Track
Option + Right Click: Zoom/Dolly

2. Move, Rotate & Scale
Space bar= top, front and side orthographic view
buttons. move rotate, scale
-x,y,z axis can be dragged and scaled
move all by dragging central point


3. Create & View Objects
nurb- curves, smooth
polygons- faces, flat
select nerves of polygon primitives and select desired shape
click and drag to make shape
transform shape using right top panel
edit shape attributes, right middle panel
control smoothness.. 1,2,3

4. Component Selection
work on nurbs and polygon surface in object mode
or parts of obj in component mode
-press and hold with right mouse button to select face
drag mouse to select more than one
to deselect all, click  nothing
add to existing selection, use shift
hold control and click specific parts to deselect
to work on entire obj, right click, select

First Class 1/18/92

1/18/12

First task completed, create a blog!

Begin brainstorming ideas for midterm..hmmm
-Must have a proposal and have it approved
-keep blogging on production
-storyboard
I want to do something cool like this video (although this might be wayy to advanced for me as a beginner)
I want to maybe take some of my prior artwork and mesh it together in animation as a video portfolio of all my work?

...this is going to be harder than I thought... here goes nothing!