Projection Design

“Projection Design” offers a hands-on approach to the design, planning and execution of digital projections in a variety of performance spaces by using a combination of industry standard and open source research software tools. This blog will serve as an online text for the developing book, "Technical Ecstasy" and link for the web-readings, online tutorials,software resources historical examples, video art and performance examples and essential class communications for Projection Design class taught by Patrick Pagano

Sunday, January 19, 2014

PROJECT 1 HELP FOR TUESDAYS CLASS

EVERYONE

1.) calm down.

2.) Everyone needs to pay just a little bit more attention in the lectures. I KNOW alot of this is BRAND new information and it's outside some of our comfort zones but that what this class is supposed to do, close the gaps of where the technology is and where we want to be.

Here is a detailed how to of WHERE and HOW to get the files fro the VJ Live workshop that we are going to cover on TUESDAY.

ON TUESDAY you are expected to have

1.) 20 JPEG FILES

2.) 10 .OBJ files

on your harddrive to do the IN-CLASS ASSIGNMENT with ME.


PARTI
1.) FInd 20 images from the internet that can be textures, go to the sites i mentioned and/or google pictures or textures you like.
2.) download them
3.) in Photoshop or GIMP-- resize them to 256x256 or 512x512
note***You will have to create a adobe login to download photoshop for free here:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?pid=4485850&e=cs2_downloads
or
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

4.) save all the images in a folder and rename them 1-20.jpg
Save them to your harddrive in a folder called "images"

PARTII
1.) google and find 10 .obj files form the internet
2.) you can also try to use MAYA to make shapes you like
note***
http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/maya
you will need to create an account and follow a basic lynda.com tutorial for Maya
http://www.lynda.com/Maya-tutorials/Maya-Essentials-2-Polygonal-Modeling-Techniques/96715-2.html
note** As a UF student you can use lynda.com for free!
save or make 10 .OBJ files
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=.obj+files
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file
Save them to your harddrive in a folder called "models"

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