Even more inspiration!

Gate, by Thunder Studio

Horse, by Priymuk Sergey

Ceremonial Cats Li, by Nenad Jalsovec

Furniture on the Run, by Wes Ware

Home Sweet Home, by Iker Cortázar Vitoria-Gasteiz

More inspiration...

Check out Joji Johnson's Mysterious Rider

Cthulhu byChris Nichols

Metropolitan Station, by Margarit Constantinescu

Domo! by Monique Wray

Renewed Escher's Impossible Cube, Pawel Hynek

The Duet, by Balázs Pápay

Stairs, by Sigurd Fernström

Vulcan, by Caleb Ashmore

3d inspiraion

Check out
Untitled 1, Nikita Veprikov
and
Waiting for Lunch, Lukas Zahradka
and
Bigtooth, Serkan Ertekan
at the cgtalk.com
3d still image gallery

Check out Neil Blevins website.

Neil works over at Pixar and does a bunch of cool things.
Follow the link to find out more, and make sure to check out his gallery!

Light and Dark values

Here's a great blog post on how to effectively use light and dark values in drawings to communicate mood, feeling and information. While the post is talking about drawing, the same concepts can be applied to 3d modeling.

http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/2010/09/quick-primer-on-values.html

Establishing where your light and dark tones are on paper before you start modeling/lighting in 3d can really help you quickly discover ways to create mood and feeling, and is another great reason to quickly sketch your ideas on paper before creating them in 3d.

Project One

Project One

Project 3 - Music Video Animation

Pick a piece of music to animate to, and cut it into a 15-30 second sound clip (wav files work great).

Use the modeling and shading techniques to build your world, and use maya's animation tools to animate it. The focus on this project is using music to choreograph movement. You can use any shapes you like, complex models are not required. Lights, cameras, shaders and deformers can all be animated as well, and can add tremendous life to a scene.

When your animation is finished, you will render out the sequence and merge it with sound in aftereffects, final cut pro, or other video editing software.

What: A quicktime or comparable movie file containing a rendered, animated music video.

When: Monday, November 16th

Check out some of the examples of the fall 2008 class below:











Other inspiration:

Autechre video

Synthetic Aspirations

Animusic

Claire De Lune