| The Gnomon Workshop Digital Sets 1: Design, Modeling and Camera Urban Environments with Eric Hanson for Mac,Windowsby The Gnomon Workshop
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Instructor: Eric Hanson This series introduces the essential techniques for creating digital sets and backgrounds, an area of visual effects growing in prominence. In this first disc of a series of three, visual effects designer Eric Hanson reviews architectural design principles then leads into setting up a scene with a tracked camera and live action plate. Next, Eric illustrates efficient set modeling techniques using both NURBS and polygons. Finally, the lesson provides a broad review of camerawork, from motion control to camera projection. Throughout the disc, Eric uses a sample scene of an urban environment to highlight all essential steps. The lecture is designed for all advancing intermediate Maya artists. Over 2 hours of lecture. Topics Covered: Architectural Design 3D Tracking Issues Worldspace Issues Multi node Camera Setup NURBS Technique Polygon Technique Perspective Correction Camera Projection Chapters: 01. Essentials of Architectural Design 02. Setting Up Your Scene 03. 3D Tracking Setup and Issues 04. Set Modeling Technique w/ NURBS 05. Set Modeling Technique w/ Polygons 06. Misc Modeling Tricks 07. Final Project Design Layout 08. Camerawork Technique System Requirements: The Minimum System Requirements are: 1GHz or faster processor 512 MB RAM 64 MB Video RAM DVD ROM Drive 5 GB of hard disk space 1280 x 1024 display The Minimum Operating System Requirements are: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Apple Mac OS X 10.2 This DVD ROM also requires the Quicktime Movie Player (Version 5.0.5 or higher), the Ensharpen Codec (Version 1.0.1 or higher) and Acrobat Reader (Version 5.0 or higher) in order to view its contents. Instructor Bio: ERIC HANSON is a visual effects designer specializing in the creation of digital environments and effects for feature films. Having worked with leading effects houses such as Digital Domain, Sony Imageworks, Dream Quest Images, and Walt Disney Feature Animation, his work can be seen in The |
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