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Test your basic knowledge |

Maya 3D Computer Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Only through Ray Tracing - Requires at least two surfaces - Requires modeling inside and outside of glass vessels






2. The connection between a shader and texture.






3. Off-the-shelf software that anyone uses.






4. Modified shape to specular






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






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






7. The front - side - top views.






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






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






10. The 3D view of your shot.






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


12. Has specular - Fall off differs from Blinn






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






14. Defines where material is transparent - AKA Scalar Maps






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






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






17. Scaling all directions at once.






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






26. The darkest color an object will ever be.






27. Polygons - NURBS - SubDs






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






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






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






31. A texture that was taken from a file.






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






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






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






35. Image or color that wraps around the model.






36. Imitates theatrical spot light - Can be focused






37. Imitates rectangular neon light source - Light comes out of source area






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






39. Software written specifically for that studio.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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