It has been a month since the polytechnic pre-enrolment date. Course is spilt into 2 classes, course intake was limit to 80 students. Yet total students were 41 students. Our class has 21 students, it was equally balanced with more girls. Everyday was considerable a drawing lesson. You need to know how to draw into order to animate. Our module coordinator comes from various countries, two are from Korea and one from China. All of them are with strong backgrounds, either coming from Blizzard Entertainment, or Koei. So they do have high expectations on us.

They will firstly gauge your standards by trying out different aspects. For drawing lesson we have still life, portrait, perspective, architectural, engineering drawing. I drew terribly for the architectural drawing, we are supposed to draw the Suntec Convention Centre. I don't know how to draw the spiked roof, it was way too complex. I don't know how many polygonal shapes are there.

For 3D Fundamentals, we are using Autodesk Maya. It was somehow similiar to Autodesk 3ds Max. As long you understand how the polygonal modelling does, you have no pain working on any 3D modelling softwares. We modelled table, castle, hand and handphone for now. We are now given assignment till September to model an organic and inorganic model. I shall not touch on the organic yet, since it is more complex. The surface of a human face is already complex, having different curves along the cheeks. For the inorganic, I have chosen M1 Abrams Tank. The top most powerful tank in modern warfare, used for Iraqi Freedom mission.

We have also went for trips like Pixar Exhibition and Singapore Tyler Print Institute to learn about animation production and lithography. Seriously the one hour journey at Pixar is not enough. There are lots of sketches and models that are showcased, and the zoetrope of Toy Story. I will never forget the intensively black charcoal shark for Finding Nemo. The black charcoal was shaded till the paper shines, even light shone can see a silvery light.

In December I might have a trip to Seoul, Korea for the SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 Conference. It takes 600,000 Korea Won just for the conference ticket. However I find it funnier if it just placed 600,000 Won. This offer was only when you book the ticket from May till June. Thereafter the offer was 17 percent, which in fact Student Volunteers only knew their result in August. So how can actually enjoy that offer? It just doesn't tally with the ticket season. The class was like so angry that they can't go, because there was only 4 students who are above the age of 18. :D

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Posted by Purity And Simplicity at 12:19