Introduction to Programming - 3D Shape Generator
During the first few weeks of teaching Intro to Programming I have introduced the students to the world of computer graphics and how programming is used within the industry to streamline studio pipelines.
The class was introduced to MEL and Python, and learned how to translate between the two languages. In addition, the class was introduced to the basics of AutoDesk Maya and shown that every button within Maya’s interface corresponds to a line of code.
During the first assignment the students explored using iteration and conditional statements within a function to create a 3D Shape Generator. The students built upon this initial script and wrote a keyframing script to animate the objects in 3-dimensional space
After animating the objects the class learned how to apply texture maps to add detail to their 3D objects. This render is the result of the two scripts.
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