Molecular Movies - A Portal to Cell and Molecular Animation


	Tutorials \| Lectures
	This tutorial section is a collection of scientific visualization-oriented training materials. One can browse this material either by difficulty level, software package, or 3D topic area. Tutorials will either be in PDF or video/audio format - a link to download any associated scene files and scripts is provided next to the link for viewing the tutorial.


	01: Introduction / 3D pipeline 02: Modeling 03: Surfacing 04: Animation		05: Dynamics 06: Molecular Challenges 07: DNA 08: Compositing

Chapter	Topic	Type	Length	Size
01	Lecture introduction	slides	1.5 min	1.5 MB
02	Tutorial 1 review	slides	2 min	2.1 MB

03a	Intro to modeling & curves	slides	6.5 min	8.9 MB
03b	Curves	Maya	2.5 min	6.3 MB
03c	NURBS surfaces	slides	6 min	9.7 MB
03d	NURBS surfaces	Maya	6.5 min	33.3 MB
03e	NURBS tools examples	Maya	10 min	37.9 MB

04a	Intro to polygons & subdivision surfaces	slides	5.5 min	6.5 MB
04b	Polygons	Maya	9 min	63.2 MB

05	Deformers as modeling tools	Maya	7 min	60.9 MB

06	Modeling approaches & changing shape w/o modeling	slides	5 min	6.4 MB

Supplemental Material
07a	Editing an object's pivot	Maya	4 min	32.2 MB
07b	Freezing transformations	Maya	2 min	9.8 MB
07c	Grouping, parenting, and parent-constraining objects	Maya	9.5 min	37.2 MB
07d	HIstory & the 'Duplicate Special' tool	Maya	8.5 min	30.7 MB
07e	Modeling using imported image planes	Maya	13 min	20.6 MB

Chapter	Topic	Type	Length	Size
-	View Surfacing lecture slides (Fall 2008)
Supplemental Material
-	Download metaball file for surfacing assignment			(~700 K)

Chapter	Topic	Type	Length	Size
01	Introduction	Maya	8.2 min	25 MB
02	Learning MEL from Maya - tetherLocCurve.mel	Maya	42 min	155 MB
03	Variables	Maya	13 min	37 MB
04	Improved tetherLocCurve.mel	Maya	16 min	45 MB
05	Building a basic UI with MEL	Maya	8 min	21 MB
06	makeActinFil.mel	Maya	21 min	68 MB
07	bumpyPolySphere.mel	Maya	8 min	22 MB

Supplemental Material
-	Download commented MEL scripts	Maya	-	-

Chapter	Topic	Type	Length	Size
01	"Rendering for Compositing" - Introduction	Maya	6.5 min	55 MB
02	Render layers	Maya	10 min	74 MB
03a	Presets 1	Maya	8.5 min	61 MB
03b	Presets 2	Maya	12 min	27 MB

04a	Review of After Effects UI & basic set-up	AE	10.5 min	34 MB
05	Layer blend modes	AE	8 min	28 MB
06a	Depth-of-Field set-up	AE	6 min	20 MB
06b	Precomposing 1	AE	7 min	19 MB
06c	Precomposing 2	AE	7 min	21 MB
07	Time Remap & conclusion	AE	5 min	43 MB


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