Week 1 Tasks

(In Class)

· Create a blog for the course using blogger

· Name the blog:
yournameBENV2402.blogspot.com
Or
yournameBENV7143.blogspot.com

· Read the course outline and Briefs from BlackBoard or from emustore.

· Spend today Exploring 3Ds Max 2011 Design

· Find at least 5 “high quality” images from the web, post the images to your blog, along with the sources for those images, giving credit to the original source.

· Explore the 'Create', 'Modify', ‘Materials’, ‘Animation’ and 'Modifier' tools in Max.

· If you want some tutorials… Complete simple tutorials MAX v12 – (Design 2010):

http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/Learning/3dsmax/

… and start more advanced tutorials from the links on the BENV2402/7143 Design Modelling - Time-Based/Advanced Visualisation 'Blackboard' page, under the Resources section.

· Experimentally apply the 5 images you have collected to forms and objects within Max, and start playing with animation techniques. Use Diffuse maps, bump maps, opacity maps, etc.

· Consider the nature of your images to help guide your experimentation.

· Explore the 'Animation' features, using the 'Auto Key' tool.

· Create 2 short visually appealing videos at a resolution of 640x360 pixels (16:9 ratio) showing off a few techniques you have discovered during the tutorial. Post your videos to Youtube and embed the videos to your blogs, along with video titles.

Week 1 – Tasks (for week 2)

· Read the text "The Machine in Architectural Thinking".

· Come up with a single word that encapsulates a concept drawn from the reading. Make a graphical image that includes the word and post the image to your blog.

· Post to your blogs 150 words which start to tease out a theoretical context relating to concepts around the “Architectural Machine”, drawing on ideas raised in the “The Machine in Architectural Thinking” and based around your single word.

· Find and post 15 images (including references) related to your 150 word theoretical concept. You will be using these images as idea generators and textures.

· You will be divining 7 words from your writing that you will sketch an image for each, that will be essentially a single “frame” from your animation. These will be the basis for your 7 short videos for Assignment 1.

Continue tutorials and experimentaion using max. Post at least 2 more short videos to your blogs, as well as images of your models in progess.