Introduction to Cameras

Cameras are a simple and effective way to accurately specify what you need to show in your renders. The following link will guide you through the set up process and the modify process of using cameras.

Setting up Cameras

WEDNESDAY PRESENTATION

Hello everyone please note that the presentation will be on Wednesday morning at 9:00am in 303a DO NOT BE LATE!!!

Rendering your scenes

Some of you have been asking questions about the ideal render and video export settings below is one example of how to achieve a suitable video size and quality, there are however many ways to achieve similar standards.

1) As a group decide on the frame size you will ALL render at as it important that you stay consistent with this (1280 x 720 is a good standard)

2) Render as .avi and choose "uncompressed" as the compression setting

3) Import renders into Premier and edit scene as required

4) In the media encoder chose flv/f4v format and in the preset selection choose "F4V-HD 720p"

ADVICE - IT IS ALWAYS WORTH EXPERIMENTING WITH RENDERS AND SETTINGS BEFORE YOU GO AHEAD AND COMIT TO A FORMAT. Do some test renders to see if the quality is good enough before wasting time doing renders you don't need!

Virtual Environments - Group Work Marking

As you already know, you will all be marked individually, even though you are working in groups. The marking breakdown is as follows:

Research and preparation 5%

Standard of modelling and animation 20%

Demonstration of new skills 5%

Contribution to group work 10%

Impact of final video on client and lecturer 20%

Total /60 + Mark from your head model = Final Mark

How you should be using your blogs...

You should all now be contributing to your groups blog but MUST continue to update an individual blog as well.

You may find that the best way to do this would be to document ALL work that you do yourself on your personal blog and then update the group blog weekly to summarise the groups overal progress

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REMEMBER - It's very important for me to see who has done what in your groups, the only way for me to see this clearly is by looking at your individual blogs. You are likely to negatively affect your mark if they do not contain enough detail

Marking Criteria For Your Head Model

Click Here to see the marking criteria in full for the head model you will be handing in on Friday (22nd October)

DONT FORGET - You must hand in a print out of all blog updates involved in the creation of the head

Wednesday 13th October

Hello everyone I'm afraid I will not be here for tomorrows Lecture due to a family bereavement. Jo Bowman will be taking on both sessions so you are expected to still turn up.