Final Project Requirements

CAD 151 Fall 2005
Final Project
Due December 10th
300 points / 30% of your total grade

Your final project represents at least four weeks of work on an original idea demonstrating several key skills and concepts learned during the semester. You will propose the concept and present it to me at mid-term (October 15th) In the form of a storyboard. This first storyboard represents a work in progress, it is understood that not all problems will be worked out at this point. The Final Project is Due December 10th 2005. At the time that the final project is due you are required to turn in a written list of all the elements listed below, describing where they can be found in your finished animation, this can be supported by a final storyboard if you wish.

Key Skills to be included:

Chapter 2: Include at least one original object of your design that is
A primitive object that you have transformed into and editable mesh and altered by moving or scaling its vertices as you did on page 64. You can also include a Boolean object and claim this as your chapter 2 elements.

Chapter 3: One LOFTED object or one LATHED object. You need not include both but you must have an object in your scene that represents a function that you learned in chapter 3.

Chapter 4: OPTIONAL (not required)

Chapter 5: Apply a material to at least one object in your scene. Give a short explanation of what skills from chapter 5 this object represents.

Chapter 6: Include at least 2 different kinds of lights in your scene.
Make adjustments to the light parameters as in chapter 6.
Create and set up at least one camera.

Animation:
A basic path-constraint animation of your camera will do.
You may use a circle as the path constraint and aim the cameras target at the center of the scene or you may create a complex path for the camera so that it flies through the scene. Which ever you choose your flying camera animation must clearly show all the features
listed above.

Note: look over project 3 in chapter 7 of the book for an example of a possible project, but remember, this is your project, be as original as you can.