Announcements

• If you haven’t already, please fill out the 3DVE Intake Form.
• Please be prepared to discuss what you’ve been up to this week regarding 3DVE.
• In the chat, please share:
  • Any issues you had installing Maya.
  • Any questions about the First Time Tutorial.
  • Any questions/comments on this past week’s reading.
  • If you’re a new student, please introduce yourself in the chat. What’s your name, major, and experience with 3D development?
• Zoom
  • Meetings will now be auto-recorded. Let me know if you have questions/concerns.
  • Anonymous Zoom poll: how was this week’s workload?
  • Last week’s Zoom recording is here. I will type the passcode in the chat (if you need it later, just email me).
  • Quick question: can you access Zoom recordings through Blackboard?

Agenda

• 3:10 PM
  • Welcome to new students. Note student Discord and WhatsApp groups.
  • Maya or Blender?
    “Maya 3d” v. “Blender 3d” v. “Blender game” in job searches
    • LinkedIn: 1350 v. 763 v. 30
    • Indeed: 839 v. 317 v. 129
    • Monster: 422 v. 98 v. 58
    • ZipRecruiter: 362 v. 116 v. 66
    • Glassdoor: 226 v. 2 v. 2
    • SimplyHired: 733 v. 230 v. 89
    • CareerBuilder 62 v. 24 v. 24
  • Brief IP discussion, including copyright
  • Tech topic: First Time Tutorial and basics. Let’s talk ice cream! Shift-clone, smooth mesh, double-click loop, soft select, standard surface, sky-dome, Arnold
  • Data of human-made objects: more on the Smithsonian example, with some star maps from NASA
• 4:00 Shareback
  • Your work in Maya this week
  • Questions/Comments on Interface Overview, Maya Basics, Managing Scenes, Files, and Projects.
• 4:50 Break
• 5:00 Discussion
  • Chapter 2 of Designing Virtual Worlds. What was most interesting in this reading? Did you come away with questions? Are there passages you disagree with?
  • Why Data?
  • Audre Lorde: Poetry and “The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” from Sister Outsider. Note: If you’d like to listen to Sister Outsider as an audiobook, please email me for a link.

Assignments

• Project 1 is due BEFORE CLASS next week. Email me a link (not an attachment) to your image. Your image should be in a common format like PNG, TIFF, or JPG and be at least 500×500 pixels. Please answer the following questions in your email:
  1. What is the image?
  2. How did you build it?
  3. What skills did you aim to develop?
  4. What did you learn in the process of making the image?
  5. Did you use external assets, e.g. models, data, etc? If so, name your sources
  6. Did any particular works or projects inspire you in preparing this image?
  7. EXTRA CREDIT: Reference Audre Lorde’s work in your image and discuss how you did so.
• Technical Stuff. Please go through one of the following:
  • Lesson 1: Modeling a polygonal mesh from a reference image
  • Lesson 2: Sculpting a polygon mesh
  • Intro to Maya: Lessons 1-6 of Maya 101 on YouTube
• Conceptual Stuff:
  • Please start to read one or both of the following from The State of Play Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds: Chapter 7: Virtual Crime or Chapter 9: Virtual Power Politics. We will start discussing the reading on February 25.

Extra Credit

Continue reading “The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” and/or all of Sister Outsider. We can continue to discuss in class and/or you can reference this work in your upcoming projects.