2. BRIEF PRE-HISTORY: SCULPTING
First sculptures are theorized to be created to provide luck
for hunters and for fertility.
The dawn of civilization saw sculptures being crafted after
the image of gods and ancient kings (possible hoping to
immortalise themselves).
After the rise of Christianity in Rome sculpting took
inspiration from religious icons much like other ancient
civilisations (Greece, Egypt, pre-Christian Rome).
The Renaissance saw the rise in notoriety of the artists
behind the sculptures e.g. Michaelangelo, Lorenzo Ghiberti,
Donatello
20th century sculpture was an age of experimentation.
The 20th century also saw the rise of Claymation.
3. BRIEF HISTORY
1959 – First commercial CAD system,
DAC-1, developed by IBM for General
Motors.
1963 – Ivan Sutherland submitted his
PhD thesis, Sketchpad: A Manmade
Graphical Communications System.
1964 – William Fetter worked for Boeing
and created the first model of a human
body
1972 – Frederic Parke creates first 3D
face model
1973 – Edwin Catmull creates digitized
hand.
4. BRIEF HISTORY CONT.
1977 – Larry Cuba presents the Death
Star simulation for Star Wars using the
Graphics Symbiosis System (GRASS) as
UICC
1978 – James Blinn introduced bump
mapping
1983 – Autodesk released first PC based
CAD software
1989 – First release of Adobe Photoshop
2008 – Ptex developed
5. METHODOLOGIES
There are seven common types of 3D Modelling processes:
1. Box/Subdivision Modelling
2. Edge/Contour Modelling
3. NURBS/Spline Modelling
4. Digital Sculpting
5. Procedural Modelling
6. Image Based Modelling
7. 3D Scanning
6. WHY 3D MODELLING?
Interested in digital sculpting.
Comfort zone is pushed with digital
painting – will overcome this with time
and practice
Love to draw, sculpt and paint in real
life
Interested in character creation
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Editor's Notes
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‘59 – First commercial CAD system, DAC-1, developed by IBM for General Motors
William Fetter – Worked for Boeing in the 1960’s – Created the Boeing man the first computer generated model of a human and coined the term “Computer Graphics”
‘63 – Ivan Sutherland submitted his PhD thesis paper: Sketchpad: A Manmade Graphical Communications System – This allowed a person to interactively create an image on a computer display
70s
‘72 – Frederic Parke creates first 3D face model
’73 – Edwin Catmull creates digitized hand – later became president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios
Both were used in a film called “Futureworld” ‘76
‘77 – Larry Cuba presents the Death Star simulation for Star Wars using the Graphics Symbiosis System a.k.a GRASS at UICC
‘78 James Blinn introduced bump mapping
80s
’80 – Turner Whitted of Bell Labs publishes a paper on ray tracing
‘82 – Tron most extensive CG film of the time released
‘83 – Autodesk release first PC based CAD software
‘89 – First release of Adobe Photoshop
90s
‘95 – Release of “Toy Story”
2008 ptex
A polygonal technique. Starts with a geometric primitive then refines the shape. – Often done in stages starting with a low-res mesh, refining the shape and then subdividing to smooth out the edges and add detail. Repeated until mesh contains enough detail
Another polygonal technique. Built piece by piece by placing loops of polygonal faces along prominent contours and then filling any gaps between them.
Used mostly in automotive and industrial modelling. Comprised of smoothly interpreted surfaces created by ‘lofting’ a mesh between two Bezier curves.
Much like sculpting digital clay.
Generated algorithmically
3D objects are algorithmically derived from a set of static two-dimentional images.
Method of digitizing real world objects. The object is scanned, analysed and the RAW data (usually an x, y, z point cloud) is used to generate a polygonal or NURBS mesh.