Monday, August 29, 2011

What is Capstone?

Capstone is a final work project that in our case a student will submit it to the University as a result of finishing all required courses to get his or her degree. It will show that after all these years and taking all theses courses what really student learned and how basically he or she can sell themselves to the industry or any other field that apply to the situation. I personally think it is very important and will reflect what we have done during this years. Also it will show and reflects how we arrange our time and assets and tools to make most of it. I believe managing a capstone is as hard as managing a real project at a real company so it definitely will show our ability. There are very smart people with amazing ideas but they have just the idea and never can make it real or it is so big and expensive for any company to make those ideas in to reality. So just having a great idea is not everything, how to make it practical with least amount of time, energy and money is more important, I think capstone will teach us or hopefully make us ready for such a thing in the real world. 
having two semester to finish it is important, at least one semester to complete the idea, put it on a paper and make a schedule for all we need, and then second semester to start it practically and make it done.

Capstone Ideas

I do not know what exactly I want to do with my capstone, however I have a raw ideas in my mind. Since I am a New Media student and my focus and concern is most on 3D Animation I would like to do something with it. Theses ideas can be really different even though I know that 3D is my concern.
1- Making an Animation, this can be really a pain, specially for little time that I have, but it can be very very short animation to show basically my power over the concept and how I know to do it.
2- Can be a 3D modeling, which this can be a character modeling, which I like it mostly or can be some modeling in Science field. 
3- Creating a scene from scratch at 3D softwares like Maya and then lightening it and texturing. 

Since modeling, lightening are part of an Animation, they can be a great opportunity for me to show to viewer of my product that how much I do know about this stuff, and basically make me closer to getting a job at the field.