The

Vase

Tutorial

Deadline: Feb 15th

Purpose: This project will familiarize the student with the lathe tool.

Objectives: Students will experiment with the lathe tool by drawing various shapes. They should develop sufficient skill with this tool to be able to reproduce the curves of any vase. They will be asked to produce at least three vases two of which should resemble those on display in the computer lab. All Vases will be loaded in a single scene and rendered to a JPG

Grading Rubric: The Student will…..

Technical Specifications…

  1. create three vases
  2. save the vases as objects in the vase subfolder of the done folder
  3. name the vases vase1.cob  vase2.cob vase3.cob
  4. use a spline polygon to draw the vases
  5. model 2 vases from life
  6. set the lathe tool at 360 degrees
  7. Place some sort of plane below the vases.
  8. Use a black background
  9. load the three vases into a single scene and render them as a jpg with the folloiwng specifications
It should be called lastnamevases.jpg
It should have a resolution of 800 by 600
Quality level should be 100%
It should saved in the vase subfolder of the done folder

 

Aesthetics

  1. Textures and colors simulate the real vases
  2. Proportions of the vases are accurate
  3. effective lighting and composition is demonstrated

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