ARTG3611 Digital 3D Inorganic Studio 1

Credit Hours: 3 semester hours
Prerequisites: ARTG3601 Digital 3D Foundations Studio

Course Description

This course will present the concepts and practical processes of developing inorganic structures and objects within a virtual 3-Dimensional environment.

Goals and Objectives

The goals of this course are as follows:

• Expose students to creation of inorganic, hard-surface content for both interactive and a

• Students who complete this course will be able to create inorganic and hard-surface objects within a virtual 3D environment, as evidenced by their completion of course projects and class discussion.

• Students who complete this course will be able to understand and generate low resolution content appropriate for game and/or animation output, as evidenced by successful completion of course directives and reviews of materials.

• Students who complete this course will be able to develop texture/material maps for generated virtual content, as evidenced by the successful completion of course work and its use in a scene.

• Students who complete this course will be able to develop a lighting scheme for a virtual three-dimensional scene, as evidenced by the presentation of lighting schemes both in projects and in class reviews.

Materials Needed

• Art pencils

• Sketchbook & Graph Paper

• High Capacity USB Flash Drive (Minimum 32GB)

• External Hard Drive for at home backup and storage (1TB or greater suggested)

• Student should purchase a Wacom Tablet

• Dropbox.com account for additional backup storage

• Maya 2020 (available to students no charge, students.autodesk.com)

• Adobe Substance Painter (available to students no charge, allegorithmic.com)

• Webcam (for instances of remote instruction)

• Broadband internet (for file transfer and for any issue where courses may be required to be remote)