Agenda

1. Video Screening
   • The Analog and the Digital
   • Ed Catmull and Fred Parke: A Computer Animated Hand
   • The Adventures of André & Wally B., The Graphics Group at Lucasfilm, renamed Pixar, (1984)
   • 3D Portrait
2. Checkmate Modeling Standard
3. Terminology
   • Polygon
   • Quad
   • Nurb
   • nGon
     • Avoid more than 4 edges to a polygon
   • Curve
   • Vertex
   • Edge
   • Face
   • UV
   • Non-manifold Geometry
     • Typically causes render and rigging errors
   • Platonic Solid
4. Modeling Demo
   • Comonent Editor
   • Snapping
   • Extrude
   • Bevel
   • Subdivide
   • Quads
     • Best for rendering, deformation, and general modeling
   • Instance vs copy
   • Mirror Geometry
   • Curve Tool (CV - Control Vertext, EP - Edit Points)
   • Convert Nurbs to Polygons
5. Modeling Assignment