| Date | Themes and Objectives | Agenda |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 Monday April 3 | DESMA 156: 3D Modeling and Motion Class overview | Hi. Introductions, class survey, overview of syllabus, assignments, website. Lecture 1a: A brief history and basic concepts of 3D Basic concepts and terms in 3D. The 3D industry and art practices from the past to the future. Tutorial 1a: Software setups Mandatory: Cinema 4D (Can switch to Blender or Maya with my permission), ZBrush (Blender), Substance Painter, 3DF Zephyr Free, Unity Optional: Bounding Box Materialize, RealityScan(Mobile App), Instant Meshes, Daz Studio HOMEWORK: (Due Wednesday, April 5) Get ready for your license and software. |
| Wednesday April 5 | Hard Surface Modeling Edge Flow | Tutorial 1b: Hard Surface Modeling Techniques on Cinema 4D Interface, navigation, primitive objects, move, scale, rotate, vertex, edge, polygon, select, Low2High: Subdivision Surface, Boolean, Deformer, Symmetry, Cloner, Topology: N-gon, Edge Flow, voxel, remesh Save, Export, Upload Resources and Videos HOMEWORKS: a. Exercise 1 (Due Monday, April 10) Quadrifid Reality b. Find a video tutorial on hard surface modeling that is at least 30 minutes long. The objective of this assignment is not only to watch the video, but also to actively follow along and create the model yourself. |
| Week 2 Monday April 10 | Texturing UV Unwrapping & Texturing | Covid/Discord/FTP uploading Exercise 1 Due Volunteer/Name Wheel Tutorial 2a: Extra Hard Surface Modeling Techniques on Cinema 4D Cut, Dissolve, Extrude, Symmetry, Cloner Lecture 2a: Understanding UV Tutorial 2b: UV unwrapping and texturing on Cinema 4D |
| Wednesday April 12 | Texturing | Lecture 2b: Texture Maps https://ambientcg.com/view?id=Concrete042D Tutorial 2c: Wiley: Texturing on Substance 3D Painter Tutorial 2d: Advanced Hard Surface Modeling Techniques on Cinema 4D referrence image, polygon pen HOMEWORK: Refine the topology of your models Exercise 2 (Due Monday, April 17) Texture Hunting |
| Week 3 Monday April 17 | Rendering Soft shadows. Rays. | Exercise 2 Due REWIND recording HOMEWORK: Keep working on exercise 2 |
| Wednesday April 19 | Rendering | Recording Poly: 3D Material Ai Generator Lecture 3a: Basic Concepts of 3D Rendering Tutorial 3a: Shaders and Rendering Engines Shaders, hair, fog HOMEWORK: INTRODUCE PROJECT A: Dice and Design Exercise 3 (Due Monday, April 24) Let There Be Light |
| Week 4 Monday April 24 | Organic modeling | Tablet Project A due changed to May 8th Redshift fast rendering settings Exercise 3 Due Tutorial 4a: Organic Modeling in C4D and ZBrush |
| Wednesday April 26 | Organic modeling | Tutorial 4b: Advanced Character Modeling Simple C4D Character Refine in Zbrush Posing your character Zsphere, Mixamo, Daz Studio HOMEWORK: (Due Monday, May 8) Project A |
| Week 5 Monday May 1 | Photogrammetry | Extra Sculpturing Tutorial Lecture 5a: An Introduction to Photogrammetry Tutorial 5a: 3dFlow Zephyr and RealityScan |
| Wednesday May 3 | Photogrammetry | Tutorial 5b: Refining Photogrammetry Models Extra Sculpturing Tutorial HOMEWORK: Exercise 4 (Due Monday, May 8) Digitizing Reality |
| Week 6 Monday May 8 | Motion | Project A Due Exercise 4 Due Tutorial 6a: Motion with Cinema4D Motion graphs X particles INTRODUCE PROJECT B HOMEWORK: (Due Monday, May 15) Project B |
| Wednesday May 10 | Motion | UV Tutorial 6b: Motion with Cinema4D Fast Rendering Introduce Final Project. |
| Week 7 Monday May 15 | Interactive/Real-Time Animation | Unity setup Project B Due Tutorial 7a: Working with Unity Model/Material/Animation/Alembic/Animator/Shader/VFX |
| Wednesday May 17 | Individual meetings about final projects link | |
| Week 8 Monday May 22 | The future of 3D | Tutorial 8a: AI-Based 3D PIFuHD, Runwayml GEN-1, NeRF, Luma, withPoly, cascadeur, NVidia Picasso, Wonder Dynamics |
| Wednesday May 24 | Final Project | Tutorial 8b: AI-Based 3Ds Office hours |
| Week 9 Monday May 29 | Memorial Day Holiday | |
| Wednesday May 31 | Final Project | Class Evaluation Photogrammetry Cleaning Office hours |
| Week 10 Monday June 5 | Final Project | Office hours |
| Wednesday June 7 | Final Project | Office hours |
| Week 11 Monday June 12 | Final Exhibition | BROAD 4230, 2PM |
| Wednesday June 14 | ||
| Friday June 16 | Commencement | |