Anatomy and Art

I’m so excited.  Tomorrow I get to observe the surgery on which I am basing my project research.  I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time now, so it only seemed appropriate that I post the current version of the script and storyboard I have been working on.

First, the script (click to access the PDF)…

Egner_script

And then the accompanying storyboards…

Two days ago I started a class in Maya.  I’d actually tried to take this one last year, but found the schedule didn’t agree with Gross Anatomy’s schedule, so I put it off.  Well now I have my 2nd chance.  The new teacher is requiring participation over at a Blogspot blog.  Fingers crossed that this won’t turn out to be a terrible idea posting the link here, but check it out if you would like…

http://3dspacefall2010.blogspot.com/

So far, we’ve all just posted out first assignment images.  For this one we were asked to create a simple composition using the basic shapes, or variations of them if we wanted to try some modeling, and render using an occlusion pass.  As you can see there is a pretty huge range of experience and skill levels in the class. For mine, I worked with the basic torus shape and created a composition from that.

Today I am going through a couple of the intro tutorials on Lynda.com and trying to get some good basics down.  I don’t have a copy of Maya at home yet, but the new computer I intend to install it on could be coming any minute now (oh boy!) and I do believe I should have both 3DsMax and Maya on my home machine before the semester ends.  I’m pretty excited about it.  Autodesk’s student software package makes it a really worthwhile deal.