Level 3
3DX Courseware
Sampler Index
All Levels
Level 1
-Intro to CG and Lightwave
Level 2
-Beginning 3D: Props and More
Level 3
-Intermediate Modeling and Texturing
Level 4 - sample 2
-Animation Principles
Level 5
-Digital Movie Making

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Level 3 Sampler
Level 3 - Intermediate modeling and surfacing
Level 3 - Intermediate modeling and surfacing: Continues where Level 2 leaves off. Methods for 'hard surface' and organic modeling are introduced. Specialized surfacing concepts and techniques, such as shaders and UV mapping are covered, with an emphasis on integrated Lighting and texturing effects.

Price $1,795 includes:

  • Instructor Binder - Step-by-step outlines
  • Student Workbook - Instructor Edition
  • Professional lesson plans on CD - hours of lectures
    • Module 301: Intermediate Modeling Tools and Procedural Texturing (2:02:04)
    • Module 302: Spline Patching (32:04)
    • Module 303: Introduction to Sub-Patch Modeling (39:45)
    • Module 304: 3D Refractive Materials (36:25)
    • Module 305: Integrated 3D Techniques (2:09:59
    • Module 306: Introduction to Organic Modeling and Texturing (1:34:43)
  • Media Assets for Instructors & student projects
  • Tests and Solutions
  • Instructor mailing list and contact with industry professionals
  • 1 Student workbook included. (Optional Student Workbooks at a discount.)
What You will Learn in this Level
Intermediate modeling, texturing, lighting and basic animation. Advancing you to a intermediate level where you intergrate 3D refractive materials, Sub-Patch Modeling, spline patching, and procudural maps. Level 3 is the core of the tools and there is over 8 projects building upon eachother as these tools are covered. Once completing Level 3 you can consider your self pretty well rounded and serious about moving onto the advanced portions of LightWave covered in Level 4 & 5.

How Long to Teach this Level
Regardless of the running time for each module, this entire level can take up to 10 weeks to complete all 8 projects and testing, the test takes more lab time since there is more project based tests. The time is based on 5 hours of Lecture and 20 hours of lab per week.

Each Level contains several Modules of Professionally recorded CDs. Each Module includes hours of recorded Lecture and typically requires several weeks to teach. Remember our recorded lectures are to be followed in a structured format, tested and given plenty of lab time to complete.The order of modules is important with this level; all projects were developed around the tools to build upon each other.