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Maya 3D Computer Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Off-the-shelf software that anyone uses.






2. Gesture thumb to right - index up - and middle towards you. Represents the axis: positive X is your thumb - positive Y is index finger - and middle finger is positive Z.






3. Modified shape to specular






4. The 3D view of your shot.






5. Apply more than one material on object depending on transparency






6. Imitates light bulb - Omni-directional light rays - Fog






7. The darkest color an object will ever be.






8. Do alter silhouette edge of object - Require higher tesselation of surface






9. The box where an important action must fit so that nothing gets cut off.






10. A texture that was taken from a file.






11. Fakes true environment - Less time to calculate - Resembles true reflections - Image projected on virtual shape






12. Imitates theatrical spot light - Can be focused






13. A CG term where an imaginary line sticks out perpendicular to the faces so that you can see the exterior of the model.






14. Basic shapes (spheres - cubes - cylinders) that act as building blocks to create a project.






15. The front - side - top views.






16. Mathematically most simple - No specular - Used for matte finishes






17. Do not alter silhouette edge of object - Implied texture






18. The starting box where you add details needed.






19. Only through Ray Tracing - Requires at least two surfaces - Requires modeling inside and outside of glass vessels






20. A light that is being emitted in all directions.






21. Apply more than one material on object depending on position of ramp






22. A container that has either a shader - texture - etc.






23. Shows you the resolution of your shot and the aspect ratio of your render cam.






24. Create a primitive shape - add edge loops - edit edge loops/faces/vertices. Made up of faces - edges.






25. A black and white image that is used to give the illusion of a bumpy surface.






26. Picking one arrow and scaling one direction at a time.






27. A light used to simulate sunlight and works by rotation.






28. Where x - y - z all meet. (0 -0 -0) the very center of a shot.






29. When you take all rendered images into a software and turn them into a single movie file.






30. The flow of how the edges are patterned around the model.






31. Imitates sun - Position of light is irrelevant - Rotation orientation of light is important






32. Rendering (taking pictures of) a whole sequence or "batch" of images.






33. Naming all files in the same way so that they're easy to find.






34. The connection between a shader and texture.






35. Scaling all directions at once.






36. Imitates fill light - Doesn't affect specular - Imitates bounced light






37. Software that uses graphics to click on/buttons instead of typed commands.






38. Has specular - Fall off differs from Blinn






39. Textures that the software makes for you so that they render faster. 2D texture wraps around the model - 3D goes inside the object.






40. Combine color map with transparency map to create a label that can be applied to surface






41. Something that shows how light will affect a model (Blinn - Lambert - etc.)






42. Defines where material is transparent - AKA Scalar Maps






43. When one object is a parent object - one is a child object - and whatever the parent object does - the child does the same.






44. Software written specifically for that studio.






45. A part of the software where you tell Maya that you only want certain lights to affect certain objects.






46. Made up of isoparms (edges) - controlled vertices - patches (faces).






47. True reflections - Vector based math - Computationally heavy - More bounces = More power needed - Calculates refraction






48. When you don't parent 3D textures to the model properly and the object moves independently of its texture.


49. Image or color that wraps around the model.






50. Includes translating - rotating - and scaling an object in (x -y -z).