20/09/2012 3d designs

day two maya  tutorials we start the day with neil showed as about hyper shades

3:10pm 13/09/2012 understanding the media 1

today we started the day with  looking at a powerpoint on matte painting where look at how the made what kind of media the are used like hand painting photoshop and then we had to look the a website mattepainting.org and i found a good site with matte painting on it www.3dtotal.com/ and found a other  website www.3dm3.com with lot of good tutorials on maya, 3dxs max and photoshop  and then we had to pick a picture and found how it was made and i talk about the picture to the group
and then we had 3 hours to make matte painting  it had to be 2048 pixel wide so i  

I have finished Graphic Design at Stafford college. Now starting a new course at Staffordshire University Digital Media Production New Media.

Today I started the course with Neil Wood I R E Investigation Reflection and Expression. Neil gave as a module handbook and then he talk to as about university work loads and deadlines marking criteria of the university. It different from level 3 courses in college and then Neil talk about reflection learning journals what there are what the use for and why make one and the process  is Concrete Experience, Reflection, Theorise / Abstract Conceptualisation, Active experimentation or in simple terms Do, Review, Learn, Apply. And then we pick a piece of paper out of bag in  the bag there was lot of different Art and Design genres like Pop Art Minimalism and more but. I got Fauvism and i had no idea what it was then  that we have too make powerpoint presentation and it must last 4 to 5 minutes and no morn then 8 slides.

Review

It was a good start to university there was a lot of thing get in but  i think that i got all of info the Neil is giving as lot of people where taking notes but i did not take any notes because i learn in visual way that seeing the thing front of me and look at it that the end i enjoy my first day at uni good night and it's 09:56pm 11/09/2012