MMAS 410
[digital] TEXTURING & LIGHTING
instructor: curt cloninger
email: curt at lab404 dot com
phone: 251.6553
office: Zeiss 211. TR 12:10-1:40
location: university of north carolina at asheville
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class-specific | texturing | lighting | theory | examples | student pages



intro
syllabus
rough project calendar
MMAS attendance policy
MMAS grading policy
homework files

required texts
[digital] texturing & painting* (demers)
[digital] lighting & rendering* (birn)
[both available at UNCA book store]

assignments
color quiz
pre-texturing deliverables: texture morgue
texturing deliverables: hi-res textured scene [stills]
properties of light quiz
color lighting quiz
lighting deliverables: hi-res textured and lit scene [stills]
staging deliverables: short flythrough/edit of scene [camera animation]
research project/presentation: discover/describe a personal texturing/lighting/rendering procedure



texture sources
morgue file: textures
imageAfter: textures
photocopied tin foil
stock exchange: stock photography

tutorials
learning-maya/texturing
highend3D [cf: materials and texturing]
texturing 101
paint effects 101



general reference
[digital] lighting & rendering book site
understanding light
photo.net/learn/
Checkershadow Illusion: color is relative

tutorials
learning-maya/rendering
lighting & shading 101



color theory primer [click #2]
interaction of color* (albers)
the man behind the motion (mcfaul) [just for fun]



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full spectrum warrior (pandemic studios)



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kelly kirks
andrew layton
josh metcalf
kevin morris
matthew oliver
tony patino
joshua stevenson