Week03 - Assignment 01 presentation

Studio Scribes and Critics:

1) Bring your printed submission to class with your relevant digital submissions in a thumb drive or a CD.

2) Each student will have 5 minutes to present their concept composition, followed by 10 minutes of review time.

3) For each presentation today your tutor will nominate 1x scribe and 1x critic. Each scribe and critic combination will be different for every presentation. Each student will have at least one go in the two roles so don't sneak out!

4) The scribe will have a notepad. The role of the scribe is to:

• Help the presenter with speeding up the initial setup of his/her presentation, for example, pinning up A3's, loading blogs, opening PDF's etc.
• Record the name of the presenter, and the critic.
• Records all the major points that the presenter has discussed and elaborated on in his/her submission.
• Ensure that the presenter does not go over 5 minutes.
• Record all the major feedback from your tutor to the presenter.
• Record all the major feedback from your critic to the presenter.

5) The critics role is to create a constructive discussion, giving opinions on the strengths and improvements. This may involve:

• Help the presenter with speeding up the initial setup of his/her presentation, for example, pinning up A3's, loading blogs, opening PDF's etc.
• Asking the presenter to clarify some aspects of his/her presentation that you think have been overlooked in the 5 minutes.
• Start a conversation based on how you regard his/her submission.
• Identifying the pros and cons of the scheme.

Independent Study - Model Refinements:

1) The key to the next three weeks is to develop and translate your 3D concept models into a 4D concept model. 

2) With the comments from your tutor, scribe, and the notions presented in this weeks lecture, continue to develop and refine your 3dsMax concept model, incorporating animations and textures (real or imaginary). 

3) Taking the notion of "unpacking" as used in the Project 1 brief, define two ways to split your concept model into 3 components or layers. How you further deconstruct/compartmentalize/break apart your model in this stage will depend on how you want to communicate your concept in a 4 dimensional, mixed-reality environment. Refer to the notions presented in this weeks lecture for inspiration.

Independent Study - Augmented Reality:

UPDATE: We will be using Build AR instead of Total Immersion for Assignment 2 which is a more streamlined, drop and play software. The reason for this change is for you to focus more on the design and modelling aspects of your scheme rather than getting bogged down on coding, being aware of the time constraints you are facing and the pressures involved in learning a new scripting technique in that short amount of time. (3 weeks until the next submission). An announcement will be made on blackboard regarding this and the Project 1 outline will be amended to reflect this change.

1) Go to blackboard, under resources, download the Build AR Task. 

2) Create a set of 4 markers by cropping 4 aspects of your concept composition you have just submitted.

3) Import your draft components and full model into BuildAR. Use your markers to evaluate how successful BuildAR is in recognising the patterns of your concept composition.