Tasks to be Completed for Week 3 Studio

• Purchase, download and install Spore Creature Creator to your own laptops. The application will cost $9.99.
  

• Get a feel for the interface, you can use the help menu to learn some slightly more advanced techniques.
  


• Each student should create 5 creatures with names and descriptions. Collaborate with your fellow students to discover tools and techniques in using Spore Creature Creator.
  


• You will find this extremely easy and fun, the difficult bit will be testing your imagination and seeing how creative you can be with the tools available to you.

• Be sure to consider the viability of your creatures, how do they move, what type of creature is it, and how/where does it live and interact with its environment.

• Be sure to think carefully about where and how the creatures live, as you will be developing your creatures habitats in the coming weeks.

• Take image captures, and animations of the creatures interacting with their environment.

• Upload to your blog: the creature ".png" file from "My Documents\My Spore Creations\Creatures" 2 images and 1 video (no longer than 10 seconds) for each creature, including the Creature Descriptions. (Total output 5 png images, 10 image captures and 5 videos).

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• Bring a sketch book, and some type of sketching implement to the next studio, and each successive studio.

Week 2 (First Week) Tasks

To be completed during Week 2 (First Week) Studio

• Create a Blog for Representation Studio at www.blogger.com. Use your name and the Course Code ARCH1390 to title your blog. E.g: yournameARCH1390-2010.blogspot.com

• Provide your name and blog address to your tutor, which will be linked to the Course Blog.

• Choose 3 Student Representatives for the class, one from each tutorial group.

Folding and Modelling

• The main task for today is a folding and modelling exercise, the idea is to take something you make, and accurately represent it using modelling software.

• You will each be given two sheets of A4 paper to create two different objects with. You will need to creatively fold your paper to make an interesting form (think spatially), with a fair level of complexity.

• The paper can be cut or ripped, but MUST remain a single piece of paper.

• Once you have folded your two distinct objects, you will have to accurately model your objects in a 3D modelling application (Sketchup, 3Ds Max, etc).

• You will need to model 3 folded paper objects in total, which include 2 of your own, and one from another student in your tutorial group. (I suggest you do someone else's first, so you don't have to try to get someone else's model outside of studio).

• Once you have modelled your objects, take two image captures from different views of your digital model, and using the camera on your phone, take photos of the physical objects that correspond with your digital models.

• Your digital images and photos should look EXACTLY the same! Post your images to your blog in pairs to see the comparison.
  

• Post to your blog: 2 digital images and 2 photos of each object, including the name of the student whose object you modelled. (Total outputs: 6 digital images and 6 photos of three separate objects. Remember to post your images in corresponding pairs and label your images).

Extra

• Begin Independent Study for Week 3.

• If you moved onto independent study for week 3 during studio, and use the provided laptops, be sure to save your creatures from "My Documents\My Spore Creations\Creatures" so you can load them onto your own computers and continue with the independent study for Week 3.

Course Resources

All Resources for this course can be found on this blog and on UNSW Blackboard at:
http://lms-blackboard.telt.unsw.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp

Extra resources, including lecturesm large files, applications and tutorials can be found at:
\\emustore\Resources\samples\Arch\ARCH1390 Representation Studio - Harkins

You can "ftp" to emustore at:
ftp://emustore.fbe.unsw.edu.au
...then follow the path to the course folder.

You will need your FBE logon to access the Samples folder on emustore.

Welcome to ARCH1390 - Digital Representation Studio 2010

Welcome to the first of 3 Digital Studio's for stage one Architectural Computing students - Digital Representation Studio.

The main ideas running through this studio will be dissecting design representation, re-displaying traditional presentation methods, combining digital media with physical media, creating new representational techniques and having some fun with cutting edge technologies.

Use the right hand menu bar to navigate between Student Blogs, Blackboard Portal and other course links.

Check this page regularly for course information.

Jeremy Harkins
Course Convener