My sunglasses

my missing helmets

One angle of the helmet

3rd URL

Questions

1. what separates dreamworks from the other animations and makes them different?

They started out a regular movie production studio and branched out into an animation studio.

2. What is Dreamworks' specialty?

3. How many films has dreamworks made?

4. What kind of animation does dreamworks use?

CKG animation

5. What started dreamworks?

Well it didn't say what, but the person who started it was Steven Spielberg

Five Paragraphs

"The worst mistake anyone can make is being afraid to make one."
Making mistakes is a part of life and if things don't work out, you try again.
Dreamworks I'm sure has made many mistakes and they learned from it.
Here is some information on a couple things about Dreamworks and its journey.
You're probably wondering how did dreamworks animation come to be? Well, it started out as just regular Dreamworks but then they decided to branch out and create dreamworks animation. Which was a very good idea if I say so myself because they really took off with it. With films such as prince of egypt, antz, and shrek 1-4.

Dreamworks was the first animation company to produce a CG animated features in a single year. This included shrek 2, the highest grossing movie of all time. This is one of my favorite movies and animation is a big part of my life more than ever. Dreamworks is maybe not as big as pixar but I think that they can do just as much as they can.

Dreamworks has made many films and most of them are very well made. One of their films that was most popular was "Shrek." This film has had many sequels but the one that made most money was "Shrek 2."
The reason people went to see the second movie was because everyone thought that the first one was so good that they had to see if the second one would live up to the expectations. Then they found out it wasn't that good so the other movies didn't do so good.
So in conclusion, I have learned many things from this project about dreamworks that I didn't know before. I am glad I picked this as my topic and am more educated. Dreamworks is a very good organization and has made many good films and probably will make even more later in the year. Hopefully there will be many more "Shrek's" to come.

2nd URL

http://www.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=17300

Questions

1. what separates dreamworks from the other animations and makes them different?

2. What is Dreamworks' specialty?

That future was cemented in May of 2001 when a little guy named Shrek forever changed the animation game, and that's no exaggeration.

3. How many films has dreamworks made?

approximately 20 movies

4. What kind of animation does dreamworks use?

5. What started dreamworks?

It started all the way back in 1980 when Carl Rosendahl founded Pacific Data Images, a company that would go on to help found the DreamWorks Animation world.

*Bonus* Shrek was originally a children's picture book in 1990

1st URL

Questions

1. what separates dreamworks from the other animations and makes them different?

2. What is Dreamworks' specialty?

3. How many films has dreamworks made?

4. What kind of animation does dreamworks use?

*In 2004, DreamWorks Animation SKG became the first animation company to produce two CG animated features in a single year, including Shrek 2 , the third highest-grossing movie of all time.

5. What started dreamworks?

questions and URL's

Questions

1. what separates dreamworks from the other animations and makes them different?

2. What is Dreamworks' specialty?

3. How many films has dreamworks made?

4. What kind of animation does dreamworks use?

5. What started dreamworks?

URL's

1. http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/

2.http://www.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=17300

3.http://www.dreamworksstudios.com/about/history

4.http://www.seeing-stars.com/studios/dreamworks.shtml

5.

Work for 5/3/11

I was sick on this day and I did not know what the questions were for. Hopefully I will catch up when you get back.

What kind of jobs did you see in the cars special features

*Mechanical engineer- creating the rides in "cars lands"

*Cartoon Artist- drawing the characters

*Computer animators- creating the models

*Director

*Voice actor

*Sound editor

*The person who lets the voice actor know what to do

*Author

My helmets and my own picture

This is my altered helmet.

This is my tutorial heart.

I couldn't upload my finished helmet but I will try to upload it later

Maya Tutorials

The problems I ran into were that I couldn't figure out how to make the back of the heart the same shape of the front side. I had to fix the vertices from the front and back. What I learned from this tutorial was that I can use other parts of the heart such as faces or vertices. I remembered that when you have to move something and you want to use more than one part of the vertices you can just draw a box around it.

Maya Tutorial List

1. When the tutorial tells me how to SubD (press alt+~)

2. Also when they tell me to go to the side view and tweak the cvs

3. To make a triangulate

4. Creating a spotlight

5. Turning on the depth map shadows and set resolution

Maya Tutorial

I'm going to be creating a heart on maya. Im going to do it by creating a cube and start to shape the cube into a heart by moving the vertices down that way the shape becomes a heart. I picked this shape because the tutorial was easy to understand and I know how to use each of the tools to make the heart.

http://www.techtut.com/Tutorial/Maya/74-Create-3D-heart-in-Maya.html

Why do you change the settings on maya?

When we change the settings so that the shape that we make is set to the other shapes you already have. I think the multiple edge loops will give you more than two loops on your helmet. The number of edge loops will give a number of four loops on the helmet. The auto complete will not stop the looping from stopping immediately.

What did you learn today?

The first thing I learned how to do today was how to use the Append to polygon tool. By using that tool we connected the shield to the jawline. We did that by going to edit mesh and clicking on the append to polygon tool and box. We also used the split polygon tool. We used that in our mask by going to the split polygon tool and using the vertical and horizontal splits. This also creates the vertices for the mask.

My 3D figure

I chose a picture of sunglasses to make my figure. I chose sunglasses because when I was little I used to think some sun glasses were just so fabulous and beautiful and you could just hide behind them whenever you wanted. I think the hard part will be to get the exact measurements and making the thin part of the glasses just perfect. I hope that when I complete the sunglasses it looks just like the picture

Animation Journal

3 things I learned: The first thing that I learned how to do was how to bridge two things together

The second thing I learned how to do was I learned how to extrude a shape

The third and last thing I learned how to do was to combine both shapes such as the helmet and the jaw together so they are considered one shape.

2 challenges: The first challenge was remembering to save it each time and to put the name to save it by.

The second challenge was trying to bridge the jaw and the helmet together because I had to get the exact amount of lines which is five and making sure I had all those or else it would not bridge.

1 resolution: I finally selected all the amount of edges and got the jawline and the helmet to finally bridge together

Where are you at and what is the problem?

I am trying to bridge my jaw line and the helmet together. The problem I am having is that the border edges are not connecting, the help line is saying that I do not have the right amount of edges selected. I have to have five edges and I already do but for some reason just the edges will not connect. I hope that I can get the edges to connect by tomorrow because I really need to finish this helmet.

What is it going to look like??

I think my doodle will look like maybe the word HELP because a physical therapist helps people the H could be a cross as in the red cross. The letter E could be bandages all put together to shape the letter E each bandage will be a line in the E. The letter L could be shaped as a leg wrapped up in a cast as if the leg were broken. Lastly the letter P could be represented by a crooked lollipop with the round part of the lollipop being the round part of the P and the stick being the line of the P, because when little kids come in you always see a doctor or someone around those lines giving a little kid a lollipop to make them feel better. That is how I picture my doodle for google being.

What i would like to do......

I think that when I leave high school I would really love to be either a speech pathologist or a physical therapist. Speech pathology really interests me because some of the people who do this work with the kids in the school. It would be really nice to have the breaks just like the children and personally I can work good with kids and I have a lot of patience. I also want to be a physical therapist because I am a football manager and I also want to help people when they either break a leg or hurt something. I know someone that broke their ankle into 3 places and she has to go to physical therapy so she can learn how to walk on her leg again. I know that this school doesn't have a trainer but I know that when I get out of school I will succeed.

My 3D Ice Cream Cone

I think my animation turned out easier than I thought it would be. I thought the cone was going to be a great challenge but I ended up finishing a lot faster than I thought I would. I just thought I was going to get stuck with getting the cone into the center. In the end the ice cream cone was a lot easier than I thought. I'm glad that I decided on making an ice cream cone because it showed me how to use the basics of maya. So the ice cream cone was fairly easy but I'm glad I did it.

Elements: How I created my Ice Cream Cone

(SIDE NOTE: I HAVE TO MAKE THE X AND Z AXIS ALL ZERO AND MAKE SURE ALL THE PARTS ARE ALL ALIGNED!!!)

1. First I create the cone by going to the polygon tab and clicking the cone and I have to rotate it 180 degrees so that it sits upside down.

2. I create the first circle on top of the cone and scale the circle so that it is squashed down and looks like a scoop of ice cream.

3. Again I create the circle but I have to make it slightly smaller than the first "scoop" and I do the same process

4. I do the same procedure as 4 and 5.

5. The last thing I need to do it create the cherry. I do that by making my small circle and setting it on tope of the ice cream cone by using the move tool.

Proposal for my Ice Cream Cone

In maya I will be creating an Ice Cream Cone. I will be putting an upside down cone, and three squashed circles. I will have to turn over the cone and scale the circles so that each one can be smaller than the other. I will be stacking all the elements on top of the cone and topping off with a cherry. I hope that this turns out the way that I plan it to come out and all of the elements fit right in to place.

Questions for Today

Attribute Editor

1. WHAT IS THE ATTRIBUTE EDITOR?

It provides information about the various nodes and attributes for the objects materials in you scene.

2. HOW IS IT DIFFERENT FROM THE CHANNEL BOX?

It provides a more detailed display of all attributes for a selected piece

3. HOW DO YOU VIEW AN OBJECT’S ATTRIBUTES?

You have to go the attribute editor and click the show and hide icon on the status bar.

4. WHAT DOES EACH TAB REPRESENT?

Each tab represents a node

5. THE FIRST TAB IS LABELED AS THE OBJECT’S NAME IS KNOWN AS WHICH NODE? WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE OF THIS TAB?

It is the templeroof tab and it contains the control of the templeroof's transformation

6. DESCRIBE THE PURPOSE OF THE SHAPE NODE.

it shapes the geometric shape or physical properties when the object is first created.

7. DESCRIBE THE PURPOSE OF THE INPUT NODE.

It is concerning the objects construction history.

8. DESCRIBE THE INITIAL SHAPING GROUP AND LAMBERT NODES.

Pertains to the default shading of the material for an object.

Surface Materials

1. WHAT DO THE SURFACE MATERIALS CONTROL?

Color, shininess, and reflectivity attributes of an object.

2. WHAT ARE TWO OTHER NAMES FOR THE SURFACE MATERIAL?

shader or shading material.

3. HOW DO YOU ASSIGN A NEW MATERIAL TO AN OBJECT?

You go to your main menu and select lighting/ shading > assign new material and the New material window pops up

4. HOW DO YOU EDIT THE SHADING MATERIAL’S COLOR ATTRIBUTES

You click on the attribute editor in the gray box to the right of the word color.

Test Questions

Template Display

1. WHEN DO YOU USE TEMPLATE DISPLAY?

You use template display when the scene becomes more complex.

2. WHAT DOES TEMPLATING THE DISPLAY ALLOW YOU TO DO?

Templating the display allows you to to select only objects that you want.

3. HOW DOES THE OBJECT CHANGE WHEN YOU TEMPLATE THE DISPLAY?

when you template the display the wireframe changes to a gray color.

4. HOW DOES THE TEMPLATE DISPLAY HELP YOU?

It helps you when you only want certain thing selected.

6. HOW DO YOU UNTEMPLATE A TEMPLATED OBJECT?5. HOW DO YOU CHANGE THE DISPLAY OF OBJECTS TO TEMPLATE MODE?

you select the hierarchy and combinations and drag a box around it. To template it

7. HOW DID YOU WORK WITH TEMPLATE DISPLAY IN THE LAST LESSON?

Components

1. WHAT IS A COMPONENT?

they allow you to work with objects at a finer level and allow you to edit them in creative ways

2. GIVE THREE EXAMPLES OF A COMPONENT.

Control Vertices, faces and hulls.

3. WHAT DOES A COMPONENT ALLOW YOU TO DO IN MAYA?

allow you to work with objects at a finer level and allow you to edit them in creative ways,

4. WHAT ARE THE STEP TO SELECT A COMPONENT OF AN OBJECT?

side view, selection mode, right click wireframe to select control vertex

5. HOW DID YOU WORK WITH COMPONENTS IN THE LAST LESSON?

Problems you run into

I was absent on friday and did not receive the handout. I was at the orthodontist

What I did in class today

I learned how to squash the sphere by the x, y and z axis. I also learned how to group the columns and duplicate the column to make the exact same one. Next I learned how to put the sphere in a different place by rotating it 90 degrees and putting it in a different spot or also known as translating it. Another thing I learned how to do is putting two views of the screen or also called the layout. The last thing I learned is hyper-graph hierarchy and it shows all the different groups that we have in the grid.

Rotate and Pedestal

The way you you do it is by your translate y and your width, height, and your depth. W, H, D, help you create the shape. Next, you enter the number on the translate y section and it will be put on the grid you want it to go. Then maya will determine the spot of the shape where you want it to go, but you have to make sure that you highlight the object before you start.

3 Questions

1. What are we going to end up with when we are done with the building?

2. Why do you make a duplicate special?

3. How are we going to make a cube?

Maya

1. I learned how to create a sphere on the grid by going to the tab named surfaces, click on it and choose your shape

2. I learned to change the color by going to rendering and clicking the paintbrush with the sphere.

3. I learned how to move the object from side to side by clicking the manipulator tool and clicking the arrows and moving it

4. I learned how to put fur onto the sphere by clicking the fur tab and choosing the fur that you want

5. I learned how to deform the sphere by going to deformation tab and clicking which way you want the object to lean or fall

S.M.A.R.T.

Specific

*A goal I have is to go to college and pursue the career that I've wanted to go into, which is Physical Therapy.

*My goal is to get good grades in school and get into college get my masters and look for a physical therapy job and start off as an assistant and work my way up.

Measure

* I'm going to go to college and get my masters, which means I am going to go to school for eight years or more to pursue my career in Physical therapy.

Action

* I'm going to research my career, study more out of school instead of just inside of class. Get a job that will help me get a little practice in the field.

Reasonable

*I will probably not be a physical therapist without any type of schooling

Timely-

* I will finish high school in 2013 and enroll into college in 2014

* I will take the courses that will benefit the career I have chosen

* My goal is to finish school and go to college and study my profession of physical therapy. When I graduate in 2013 I will wait a year and enroll in college in 2014, so that I have enough time off to figure out what courses I need to take. When I get to to college I will research more on my career. I am going to try to get my masters as best as I can.n That will be my goal to pursue my career