Project Title

Sharable Learning Object

Contact Person

Leah MacVie, Instructional Designer

Phone: 716-888-2418

Email: macviel@canisius.edu

Project Description

What: Students are to be paired with instructors to develop a sharable learning object, such as a video, simulation, or Web site that can be shared across the College and across courses. The instructors will supply students with the content and the students will come up with their own project about the content. To be clear, the project medium is completely up to the student.

Why: There are many areas of education to branch into as a Digital Media Arts student, including content development, product design, and promotional materials. This project is great real-world experience for anyone interested in widening their portfolio focus.

When: Each pairing will have one semester to work on the project and will present the content at Digital Day 2011.

How: This project is to be sponsored by the new Online Learning Community at Canisius College, coming Fall 2010.

If interested, please contact Leah MacVie, Instructional Designer.

Resources/Skills needed

Any, the project medium is completely up to the student.

Dear Students,

The club will meet tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon again.

- We will discuss trip and other outing ideas
- I will show you how to make a simple slide show in Flash, if we get to it.
- We will talk about increasing the membership
- Any other ideas are welcome, of course.

Talk to you friends and invite them over.
If this meeting time is not good for you let me know.

I hope to see you at noon!

Best,
PJ

This tutorial will show you how to apply rendering styles to your scenes and how to animate a camera using a Scene object in SketchUp. Also, it will take through the necessary steps to export an animation and reformat it for SmartPhones in Adobe AfterEffects.

Tutorial 1 – Styles and Scenes in SketchUp

Tutorial 2 – Exporting an animation from SketchUp

Tutorial 3 – Reformating your animation in AfterEffects for SmartPhones using 3gp multimedia container

If you have any questions please contact me at moskalp@canisius.edu

Dear Students,

Creating and organizing your portfolio is a task that takes significant amount of time, experience and effort. Portfolio is your “foot-in-a-door” element of the interview process and you should give it special attention.

On Wednesday, October 7th at 3pm in Lyons 312, Prof. Ben Dunkle will present a Portfolio Workshop that you cannot afford to miss!

The workshop is mandatory for all Capstone students!

Regards,
P.J. Moskal

The following tutorials will guide you through the process of creating your own virtual walk-through using Unity3D software. Flash player is required to view the tutorials and all tutorials open in a new window. Enjoy!

Click here to view the finished walk-through project, you might be prompted to install Unity Player, it’s rather painless.

Walk-through screen capture

Tutorial 1 – Introduction to Unity3D and its interface

Tutorial 2 – Working with the Terrain component

Tutorial 3 – Working with the First Perspective Component

Tutorial 4 – Environmental effects: Skybox, Fog and Lens Flare

Tutorial 5 – Working with Models created in Maya, importing assets

Tutorial 6 - Publishing your project to the Web

If you have any questions please contact P.J. Moskal at moskalp@canisius.edu

Modeling and Texturing a Simple Character in Maya

The following tutorials introduce a viewer to basic techniques of character modeling and texturing in Maya. These tutorials are intended for viewers who are already familiar with Maya interface, have basic understanding of Maya manipulation tools and object/component modes.

All tutorials require flash player.

Part 1 – Setting up image reference planes

Part 2 – Organizing your layers

Part 3 – Starting the modeling process with polygonal cube

Part 4 – Creating an instance for the other half of the body to aid the modeling process

Part 5 – Adding more geometry and adjusting the vertices

Part 6 – Mirroring original model and merging the vertices

Part 7 – Finishing the model and deleting model’s history

Part 8 - Modeling the head of the character

Part 9 – Adding more details to the head of the character

Part 10 – Starting the texturing process of the Toy’s body

Part 11 – Finishing texturing of the character

Enjoy!