Project 2 : Shading<br>

Date Assigned: Monday, June 27th<br>
Date Due: Wednesday July 6th 11:59pm<br>

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Reading: Chapters 6 and 9 (Kerlow)
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In this assignment you will assign surface shading properties to your
models in Maya.
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New project groups have been created. Each person in a group will
bring along all models from their group from the modeling
assignment. With your new group, choose three models from this pool
that somehow go together or that tell a story. Place the models in a
scene and shade them in each of the ways described below.
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<H3>Getting started</h3>

To get started with shading in Maya, <a href="shading_maya.html">here</a> are some tips.


<h3>What to do</h3>
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<LI> polka dots 
<UL>
Shade each model with polka dots. The polka dots may be any size, but
    should be uniform in size and distribution on each model. They
    should also still look like polka dots. There is a template polka
    dot pattern available: <a href="polka.tif">polka.tif</a>. This texture
    tiles fairly well, but feel free to make your own. Maya provides
    several texture mapping options. Also feel free to paint a polka
    dot texture that is warped so that it looks correct on your
    model. You can paint textures using whatever paint program you
    like. 
</UL>
<LI> photorealism
<UL>
    Shade the scene so that it looks as photoreal as possible. Find and have in front of you a reference material for each model: an actual object, a photograph, a piece of fabric, etc. This reference material will be shown during the critique.
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<LI> effect
<UL>

    Choose a special effect for each object; make it look like it is
    made out of some specific material (papier mache, mosaic tile,
    leather, felt, fur, skin, etc.), or that it is in some specific
    state (dusty, frozen, rusted, etc.). Again, have a reference
    material or photograph close at hand. Achieving an effect like
    those mentioned is hard, and the canned effects provided will try
    to whisper in your ear. Bring your ideas and reference materials
    for this part to class on Wednesday.
</UL>
</OL>
<H3>What we're looking for</h3>

We have different expectations for the results of each part of the
assignment. The goal for the first part is perfect polka dots, by
whatever means necessary. In the second part, you should emulate
reality with all of its imperfections. In the third part, you should
aim to convey the desired effect as well as possible. No
cheating. ("Here you see my pepper grinder made out of... well... what
does it look like to you? ... Mashed potatoes? Yeah, that's what I was
going for.")
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Since we will only see one view of the scene for each part (or all
parts, if you like) of the assignment, take some time to find an
effective camera angle and lighting intensity. The final scenes should
be rendered using the real render (as opposed to quick-render) option.

<H3>Turn in</h3>

Before the assignment deadline, hand in your project as follows:
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Access blackboard:<br>
<UL> <a href="https://courses.northwestern.edu/webapps/login">Blackboard</a>
</UL>
To handin a file (click thru the following menu options):<br>
<UL>  Communication > Group Pages > <B>Project 2: Shading FINAL HANDIN</B> > File Exchange > Add File
</UL>
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Each group should Handin in the following:
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       <LI> A README text only (.txt, NOT MS WORD DOC) file called <b>GroupName_README.txt (If you're group 1, your file should be
called group1_README.txt)</b> containing group member names and a short explanation of who did what.

       <LI> Three high-quality rendered images (at a resolution of
            about 640x480), one for each part of the assignment, named
            <b>GroupName_polkadot.tif</b>, <b>GroupName_photoreal.tif</b>, and <b>GroupName_effect.tif</b>.
	     Be sure to change the output file type in Maya.  Typically, when you
            render a scene in Maya, the image is saved as a iff file
            (the Maya image file format) in the image subdirectory of
            your project. If you rendering it into a tif file from the
            start, you'll save yourself a bit of trouble.
<li> (Optional = 10 extra points) Maya binary files and textures you used; For full 10 points you must have a cleaned up file with everything named and grouped appropriately
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===== Potential Grading Criteria ======

Handin Correct files (10pts):

Perfect polka dots
   Texture/Material Assignment (20pts):
   Scene Composition (10pts):


Reality 
   Texture/Material Assignment (20pts):
   Scene Composition (10pts):

SpecialEffect 
   Texture/Material Assignment (20pts):
   Scene Composition (10pts):



------- Groups---------


Proj2
Group1 Che Yusoff, Asrif          Johnson, Rejaie           Schatz, Matthew 
Group2 Chin, Ying (YZ)            Krueger, DeBorah          Meor Hamzah, Nurul 
Group3 Ku Abdul Rahman,  Nizar    Miller, Josh              Pylypczak, Jaroslav 
Group4 Md Ishak, Nizam	          Nesbitt, Kiel             Teng, Xian Yi 
Group5 Edwards, Tennile	          Simpson, Alan 

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Images from Project 1 (use these to help you pick your models)<P>
Group1:<img WIDTH=200  src = "SP2005_P1/Group1_LivingRoom.png"><p>
Group2:<img WIDTH=200  src = "SP2005_P1/Group2_TeaTime.png"><p>
Group3:<img WIDTH=200  src = "SP2005_P1/group3_beach.png"><p>
Group4:<img WIDTH=200  src = "SP2005_P1/Group4_Flowers_in_a_vase.png"><p>
Group5:<img WIDTH=200  src = "SP2005_P1/Group5Project1Tif.png"><p>
Group6:<img WIDTH=200  src = "SP2005_P1/Group6_3_Blind_Mice.png"><p>
Group7:<img WIDTH=200  src = "SP2005_P1/Group7_BirdsofaFeather.png"><p>