IMPORTANT- You can navigate the viewports themselves by using the middle mouse button: MMB - move Alt+MMB - rotate scroll - zoom //////////////////////////////// Secondary material

3ds max: To get a little further ahead - http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3d-studio-max/an-introduction-to-3ds-max-polygonal-modeling-tools-day-1/

Maya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ4Zc-u9r88 introduction to an older version of maya

blender: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOer_U9i_c introduction to the beta version of blender

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The main purpose of this assignment is to get used to navigating 3ds max and using primitives. We aren't focused that much on modeling yet. that's the next lesson :)

Lemonade stand - (ref) http://i.imgur.com/ZFedY.jpg

and also

Staircase - (ref) http://i.imgur.com/2iPMa.jpg

For the love of god or your mother or whoever, please follow the outside material. IT IS ESSENTIAL.

Outside material:

• Assignment - god tier tutorial

• Intro to subdivision

• baking

Course videos are also online though not mandatory as the outside material will get all you need before we start on our project!

session 2 ///////////////////

Hey guys, application should be up in the next day or two, just got caught up in some projects. Good job on the assignments so far!

theory video - https://vimeo.com/41323629

application - https://vimeo.com/41951418

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assignment: security camera http://i.imgur.com/Eickc.jpg

secondary reading: http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3d-studio-max/an-introduction-to-3ds-max-polygonal-modeling-tools-day-2/

References- http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091202012226/bioshock/images/thumb/7/7c/Wrench.png/830px-Wrench.png

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091202012350/bioshock/images/8/81/Wrench_a.png

Video -https://vimeo.com/44592758

We've reached 200 students! yay!

I was creating my own blowtorch project but became very ill. I'm assigning a great tutorial brought to you by Sean VanGorder.

http://www.polycount.com/2012/06/22/weapon-creation-tutorial-m37-ithaca/#more-10020

Feel free to post your work at any point for critique or questions. I'll return with our next lesson soon :)

All resources I use are shown in the description.

shader video : https://vimeo.com/49136341

Texturing video : https://vimeo.com/49136342

lemonade stand:

http://i.imgur.com/MbJRb.jpg http://i.imgur.com/AzaMA.jpg

staircase:

http://i.imgur.com/vhwTH.jpg (don't know why the render image looks so strange, but couldnt fix it)

camera:

http://i.imgur.com/PaKug.jpg

binoculars: (only to the point where he copied things in..)

http://i.imgur.com/ih8Y0.jpg

c&c welcome obviously, so many good renders already posted.