Gallery 37 Spring Open House 2010!

Please join us in celebrating the
eleventh annual Chicago Public Schools

Gallery 37 Advanced Arts Education Program
SPRING OPEN HOUSE!

PERFORMING ARTS SHOWCASE
Featuring performances in Vocal, Dance, Theater & Jazz
Wednesday & Thursday, May 26th & 27th - 2010
Shows at 2:15 & 5:30 PM - 1st floor Storefront Theater
&
VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION & CULINARY SHOWCASE
Featuring visual and media artwork and culinary delights
Opening reception Friday, May 28th - 2010, 3:00-7:00 PM
5th floor CenterSpace. Gallery exhibition runs from 05/24/10-06/08/10

all events are located at:
Gallery 37 Center for the Arts
66 E. Randolph St.
Chicago IL. 60601

Please contact us at 312) 742-1461 or rherlo@cityofchicago.org if you have any questions or to RSVP for any of the Spring 10 Performances

It's been awhile, so here's some eye candy for ya

Below are shots from environments we created in Maya. We have been making all these cool creatures and stuff, but they didn't have a place to love! The need inspired some incredible new worlds...

Quincy

Ryan

Pawel

Ronny

Brandon

Lavelle

Julio

Eddie

Dominique

Jeff

Derrick

We're Done!

WE'RE DONE WITH OUR ROBOTS!!!

And they are awesome...

Lavelle

Ronny

Ryan

Quincy

Kiyera

Pawel

Brandon

Eddie

Dominique

Derrick

Misael

Jeff

And Julio is alsomost done with his head

Blogging rules!

Hey all...

Phew. Still working on those robots! We are done modeling, now we are learning about shaders. Shaders apply colors and textures to the surfaces of the forms we make in Maya. Here are a couple more shots of the robots, some with shaders and effects applied.
Hopefully next week we'll get some shot of robots with textures on them!

First Post for Computer 3D Modeling

Hey all!

Welcome to our site. Only three weeks into the school year and we are creating some really fun stuff!

I am Stacy, one of the co-teachers for 3D modeling at G37. My partner is Grav, a 3D digital artist, Maya expert, and graduate student at UIC.

We have awesome students in out class. Everyone here loves anime, video games, comic books, and art! My kind of people. They come from all over Chicago to participate in this program.
We have been working on a couple of projects. Our first project was to create a 3D self portrait in Maya. We took digital photgraphs of ourselves, then uploaded these photos to Photoshop for a little bit of editing. We then load the photos into Maya, where we began to render our portraits.

This is Julio's self portrait in Maya. This is his second year in the 3D Modeling program, and it shows!













Rendering these heads are VERY difficult. To save our sanity, we are taking a break from the protraits, and doing a project on robots!


We are each designing a robot to render in Maya. Because the function of the robot will determine how the robot will look, we first have to decide what we want the robot to do. Once the function is determined, we have to think about the design. Every person who has had a design class in high school or college has heard this saying, "form follows function."