Fall 2024
Grades for the Open Project have been posted.
Have a good break!
email: stlarson@nmu.edu
phone: x1488 (227-1488)
Office: 84 ART (zoom with advance notice)-- Office Hours
Syllabus/FAQ
Semester Schedule
EduCat (server info+)
Lab Hours
Additional references, project materials, and generally interesting stuff.
Tor Frick and newer stuff on artstaion
Phillip Beesley (and an interview with video of a sculpture)
Sub-D Gun Speed Modeling (older version of C4D; uses Volume Builder extensively)
Victoria Passariello
Tomi Vaisanen
Pennyism (materials + HUD... and some mechanical joints)
Meats Meier
Common Face Sculpting Mistakes by Flipped Normals
ZBrush - All Brushes
Gael Kerchenbaum
Mariano Steiner
ZBrush Alpha Library
Deathclaw pipeline
Project details on to ZRemesh version of ztool
Angel Rapu
Making of Little Bunny
Adam Martinakis and alt site with most images (strong content warning)
Alessandro Baldasseroni
Note: Dates are subject to change due to illness, snow days, etc.
I. Modeling/Texturing
Aug 27 - Welcome back. Logistics. Brainstorm Project 1.
Aug 29 - Cinema 4D modeling. Build some stuff!
Sep 3 - Sub-d techniques. Final Proj 1 sketches due.
Sep 5 - More sub-d techniques. Kitbashing.
Sep 10 - Hierarchy, rigging, and IK. Assign Project 2.
Sep 12 - Project 2 due.
Sep 17 - Lighting, look dev, and rendering.
Sep 19 - Project 1 due. Assign Project 1b.
Sep 24 - Materials, mapping, and Redshift. Assign Project 3.
Sep 26 - Project 3 due. Postproduction.
Oct 1 - Project 1b due. UVs for texture. Assign Project 4.
Oct 3 - UV lab.
Oct 8 - Project 4 due.
II. Sculpting
Oct 10 - Intro to ZBrush. Assign Project 5.
Oct 15 - Project 5 due. Dynamic meshing. Assign Project 6.
Oct 17/18 - AD Scramble
Oct 22 - Project 6 due. Booleans and remeshing. Assign Project 7.
Oct 24 - Quick tips and studio production.
Oct 29 - Painting and rendering pipeline.
Nov 5 - Sketch review.
Nov 7 - Posing.
Nov 12 - Studio day. Practical considerations for 3D printing.
Nov 14 - Project 7 due.
Nov 19 - Project 7v2 due. Assign Project 8.
III. Open
Nov 21 - Project 8 proposals. AI meets 3D.
Nov 26/28 - Fall Break.
Dec 3 - Progress check.
Dec 5 - Project 8 due. Snow Day
Dec 13 (10:00 - 11:50am)- Project 8v2 due.