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John Lasseter is an American animator, director and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is the director of the iconic Toy Story. Lasseter was borin in Hollywood, California, and raised in Whittier, California. Lasseters mother was an art teacher at Bell Gardens High School. This contributed and fueled his interest animation. He spent his time drawing cartoons. In high school he read a book called The Art of Animation by Bob Thomas, which made him realize he wanted to pursue a career in Animation. Lasseter was a student at the California Institute of the Arts, where Tim Burton was one of his classmates.
Toy story is an animated movie released in 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures. Toy story is Pixar's first feature film and also the first feature film to be made completely made with CGI. CGI is an acronym for Computer-Generated Imagery, and is the application of the field of computer graphics. This includes 3d computer graphics and creating special effects in art, films, television, video games and programs. Toy Story overwhelmed viewers with positive opinions. They praised the feature film's technical innovation and the wit and composure of the screenplay. Toy Story follows a group of toys who deceive humans by pretending to be lifeless when they are present.
With the latest installation Toy Story 3, the apparently final part of the breathtaking series that began Pixars reign in 1995, raises the question of how Pixar has dominated and maintained high quality control over other studios.




Toy Story focuses on woody a pullstring cowboy and Buzzlightyear, a space ranger action figure. The concept of toy story was inspired by Tin Toy, an animated short film. Tin Toy follows Tinny a mute musician who is a new toy and is introduced to a very destructful baby. Tinny tries to escape from the infant and hides under the couch where he sees many other toys also hiding. The baby begins to cry and Tinny feels bad and tries to show the baby compassion but is immediately let down when he sees the baby is more interested in the box where Tinny came from. Woody is different from Tinny as he is a cowboy.

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Toy story is an animated movie series comprised of 3 films. The world of toy story is an amazing place where toys are alive and can do whatever they want. The owner of the main character toys is Andy, he is oblivious to the fact that his action figures are more than what he sees. The inspiration for the Toy Story series was the short film "Tin Toy" a mute musician having to deal with a monster baby.
The first toy story starts at Andy's birthday party and the toys are seeing if andy has received any new toys as gifts. Woody is the leader of the toys and he sends a small group of toy soldiers to spy and see what goes on downstairs at the party. They see that Andy has been given a brand new Buzz Lightyear. Buzz immediately becomes one of Andy's favorite toys along with Woody, but woody is jealous. The rest of the toys welcome Buzz and start to notice that woody doesn't like them. So when buzz falls out of the window they think it was woody. They both fall into Andy's truck and they end up in an arcade game along with the green aliens. they end up going to Sid's house, andy's neighbor, but the Woody and Buzz know Sid destroys toys for fun. they finally scare Sid so bad he never wants to trash another toy again and they return back with the other toys before Andy moves to his new house.
The second toy story a toy collector named Al, spots woody in Andy's mothers yard sale. Woody tried saving wheezy the penguin from being sold. Woody gets spotted by Al and goes back to his inanimate state. Al tries to buy woody knowing that he is a rare collectible from the 1950's show Woodys Roundup , but Andy's mother is not pleased and says he is not for sale. Al steals and takes woody and restores him. He plans on flying to japan with all of the Woodys Roundup gang which is The Prospector, Jessie, Woody, and Bullseye. Buzz and Andys toys try to rescue Woody, but The Prospector doesn't let him leave. Eventually they all return to Andy's house except The Prospector.
Toy Story 3, is the last installment of the Toy Story series. Andy is all grown up and is leaving for college and his toys are getting left behind. He takes them to a day care and gives them as donations. They find out the toys in the day care are very corrupt. Lots-o-huggin bear is the leader of the evil toys at the dsay care and doesnt want woody leaving. They do everything to keep them in but Andy's toys always find a way to get things done.

2nd URL

1.)What was the inspiration For TS2?
During the making of the first toy story many ideas were put away to keep the movie focused. One was of a toy being outgrown by it's child(jessie)
2.) How did the Artists feel when they were making the sequel to toy story?
Like they were revisiting old friends.
3.)With technology improving in both speed and sophistication, what were the creators mainly concentrated on improving?
Character Performances

1st URL

http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/ts

1.)What was the inspiration for Toy Story 1?
The Short film "Tin Toy"
2.)What was the main character before Woody and the original cast as Andy's new toy?
Tinny
3.) What was the difference between Woody and Tinny?
Woody was a wind-up cowboy and Tinny was a mute wind-up musician

5 Questions/ 10 URL's

1.) When was the first toy story made?
Toy Story 1 was made in 1994
2.) What was the movie based on?
Toy story was based on a tossed out concept of a movie called "Tin Toy"
3.) Who was the original main character before woody?
Tinny
4.) What do the creators do before actually making the scene in the computer.
Story Board
5.) About how many 3d animated models were made for TS1?
about 2000




1.) http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/ts/
2.) http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/ts2/
3.) http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/ts3/
4.) http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jun/30/toy-story-3-pixar-animation
5.) http://www.viz.tamu.edu/courses/tutorials/sajan/index.01.html
6.) http://tech.mit.edu/V115/N61/toystory.61a.html
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Future connected to Cars

I would use my knowledge and creativity to create future characters. Not just plan them but use our animation skills gained from this class to make them in maya or another animation software.

tutorial

In my tutorial i learned how to boolean objects. The rest was pretty basic. The problems i faced were booleans because every once in a while it wouldnt function. I also had problems rendering because some things werent named the same as the tutorial. I wasnt able to render it as I would have liked to.

Things we dont understand about the tutorial

In my tutorial everything is pretty simple but in the comments people talk about the "boolean" being difficult. I have no idea what boolean is in Maya, it looks pretty simple but i feel it may pose problems when im actually working on it.

Plan of Action

My plan of action for creating my car is to follow the directions for the helmet but modify them to fit my car. I will create it by experimenting until its finally good.

3 things we learned

I learned many things while making this helmet, at first I did not know how to work maya at all but so far i got the basics down. I know there are much more things but some of the things i learned were how to extrude objects, mess with the vertices to smooth things out and how to bridge one object to another. I had many problems with bridging my objects together, I had to start over. When i started my second new helmet and i had all the directions was when it got much easier for me and i was able to finish the bridging. I also had problems with the back of the helmet. I didnt know how to pull it out to match the reference image. My resolution is to keep working on maya and gain more knowledge.

Helmet Status

The current status of my helmet is that I am not able to bridge it. This has become very complicated and I no longer know what i am doing. The problem with my helmet is that my border edge line is not in the correct place. Border edge lines should be the outside thick line but for some reason mine is on the inside of the helmet. This has posed many problems as there is also a edge line under the border edge line. I am not able to select the lines to bridge it because there are too many and it says they are not border edge lines.

Titos Pokeball

First you go nurbs primitives and make a sphere with end sweep 180, then duplicate it. you now have to half spheres. rotate X 90 and -90. Make a nurbs torus and place it between the half sphere. Make two small cylinders and place them along the torus.

Instructions for mug.

Cup
First you create a polygon pipe with a radius of 1, height of 2, thickness 0.15, subdivision axis 20, subdivision height 1.. it wont ask for all of those. Translate Y= 2.17, Translate Z=0.368, Scale X=1.727, Scale Y=4.73 Scale Z 1.756. Then you just change the color red.
Handle
Make a nurbs torus with radius 8.5, start sweep 0, end sweep 180, degree=cubic, sections 24, spans 4, Height 0.059, minor sweep 360. Translate Y = 2.301, Translate Z= 2.01, Rotate Z 88.539, Scale Y1, Scale Z= 0.204
Bottom of cup
make a polygon cylinder with a radius 0.5, Height 6, subdivision Axis 12, Translate X 0.003, Translate Y 0.048, Translate Z 0.342, Scale X 3.368, Scale Y 0.084, Scale Z 3.175

From This experience I have learned many things. The people in my workspace are very distracting I have learned to cope and to stimulate their nonsense. I use it for the better. This is the very first thing i have ever created in maya. It was very productive and although it is just a mug it cost me lots of work time and was well worth it. I painted my mug red because i rarely see any red mugs. The point of this project was to understand the basics and fundamentals of maya. Now that i know that I am able to move fluently among the task bars and many strange buttons.

What I did in class today was alter the inside of the cup so it was more realistic.

The object I am creating is a mug. This is a simple mug and i got the idea from Mrs. Goeldner's penguin mug. The elements I will incorporate are cylinder, and a Torus.

Attribute Editor Notes

The attribute editor provides information about the various nodes attributes for the objects and materials in your scene. Like the channel Box, You can view and edit the basic transform information and many other keyable attributes. However, the attribute editor provides a more detailed display of all attributes for a selected object.

To view object attributes using the attribute editor
In the scene view select the object. To view the attribute editor click the show/ hide icon on the status line. Click the selected object

template work

Template Display

1. When do you use template display?

When your scene becomes complex

2. What does templating the display allow you to do?

Allows you to more easily select only the objects you want

3. How does the object change when you template the display?

Its wireframe changes to a gray color

4. How does the template display help you?

This helps to prevent you from selecting of modifying it accidentally

5. How do you change the display of objects to template mode?
You can change the display of objects to a template and use them as a modeling reference

6. How do you untemplate a templated object?

Undo

7. How did you work with template display in the last lesson?

we changed the template

Components

1. What is a component?

Geometric shapes have smaller parts called components

2. Give three examples of a component.

Control vertices, faces and hulls

3. What does a component allow you to do in Maya?
allow you to work with objects at a finer level and allow you to edit them in creative ways

4. What are the step to select a component of an object?
You must set the selection mode to component mode

5. How did you work with components in the last lesson?

We moved the vertices of entablature vertically

What I learned.

When I came to class, I did not know what we were doing. But as class progressed I simply became aware of the tasks our animation class must complete. We received a stack of papers stapled together. The point of these papers were to finish the instructions written on it. I did a few of the instructions and i learned about more shapes.

To move the half sphere you can use the tool on the side and use the rotate tool to move it to the pedestal.

How do you make things move?
How do you make your own objects on the plane?
When will we do a full animation?

pizzakid

So today pizzakid (Aideli) came back from her other school. But she brought along an ipod.

Auto desk maya

1. How to change the angle view of the plane at the top the plane window with the cube
2. How to put polygons from the polygon tab just draw with the mouse
3. How to turn on a movie showing the basics of autodesk in the general tab
4. How to draw lines and circles which are in the curves tab at the top of the window
5. How to scale objects with the scale tool on the left side of the window

Smart Goal

Specific
Measure
Action
Reasonable
Timely

My New Years Resolution is to do better in my school work. To do this i have to do all my work and listen to all my teachers. I also have to not let other students not let me do my work.

My SMART Goal is to work harder in school. I want to do this because I have learned education is a major part in every ones life. I used to not appreciate school but now I do after a series of events that have occurred. I plan to do this this semester and my senior year. I'm going to listen to the teacher and do the things I need to achieve this.