CSC 230 – Schedule (Spring 2007)

Course Instructor: Paul Young
Office: C130A, Parkland College
Phone: 217-351-2403
E-mail: pyoung@parkland.edu


This calendar overview is a dynamic page that will change as the semester progresses. Expect constant updates and adjustments as we move through this material. PS VFX = Adobe Photoshop for VFX Artists (required textbook).

Class

Day

Date

Schedule (6-8:20pm)

Homework (due 11:55pm)

Projects (due 6pm)

1

Tues

1/9

Welcome (download PDF)
About Angel
Got Gmail?
Google Page Creator
Parkland Library
Read PS VFX chapter 1 (pp 3-22)

 

 

2

Thur

1/11

Exercise 1: Background Swap
Blog

Homework 1 due

 

3

Tues

1/16

Exercise 2: PS VFX Masks & Mattes (pp 249-266)

 

Project 1 research critique

4

Thur

1/18

Exercise 3: Blending Images
Exercise 4: PS VFX Noise & Grain (pp 267-278)

Homework 2 due

 

5

Tues

1/23

Exercise 5: PS VFX Lighting Effects (pp 279-283, use 3 of your own images)

 

Project 1 concepts critique

6

Thur

1/26

 

Homework 3 due

 

7

Tues

1/30

Exercise 6: PS VFX Day for Night (pp 284-297)

 

Project 1 draft critique

8

Thur

2/1

Exercise 7: Color Change (pp 229-234)

Homework 4 due  

9

Tues

2/6

Exercise 8: Color Cast (pp 234-243)

 

Project 1 final critique
Project 2 research critique

10

Thur

2/8

Field Trip #1 (Jason Lindsey)

Homework 5 due

 

11

Tues

2/13

(snow day)

   

12

Thur

2/15

Studio lighting training (bring laptops)
Aperture & Shutter speed (PDF)

Homework 6 due

Project 2 concepts critique

13

Tues

2/20

Photo session #1 (X138)

 

 

14

Thur

2/22

 

Homework 7 due

 

15

Tues

2/27

 

 

Project 2 draft critique
Project 3 research critique & client interview

16

Thur

3/1

Professional Development Day
(no day or night classes)

Homework 8 due

 

17

Tues

3/6

Exercise 9: Basic Tiling (pp 139-147); Perspective (pp 158-161)

Midterm Review

 

Project 2 final critique
Project 3 concepts critique

18

Thur

3/8

 Photo session #2 (X138)

Homework 9 due

 

19

Tues

3/13

 

    

20

Thur

3/15

Exercise 10: Patterns (pp 150-158)

Homework 10 due

Project 3 draft critique

 

Tues

3/20

(Spring Vacation)

 

 

 

Thur

3/22

(Spring Vacation)

 

 

21

Tues

3/27

Exercise 11: Painting

 

Project 3 final critique
Project 4 research critique

22

Thur

3/29

Field Trip #2: Thompson-McClellan

Homework 11 due

Project 4 concepts critique

23

Tues

4/3

Photo session #3 (X138)

 

 

24

Thur

4/5

Exercise 12: Textures

Homework 12 due

Project 3 client presentation

25

Tues

4/10

 Exercise 13: Custom Brushes (pp 127-138)
(submit a dirty object painted with your own brush)

 

Project 4 draft critique

26

Thur

4/12

Field Trip #3: Chris Brown Photography

Homework 13 due

27

Tues

4/17

 

 

Project 4 final critique
Project 5 research critique

28

Thur

4/19

 

 

Project 5 concepts critique

29

Tues

4/24

Photo session #4 (C118)

 

 

30

Thur

4/26

 

 

 

31

Tues

5/1

 

 

Project 5 draft critique

32

Thur

5/3

Quiz

 

Project 5 final critique

Final

Tues

5/8

Final Review (by appointment)

 

 

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