Independent Study for Week 2

• Get Spore creature Creator from the Saturday Telegraph (Sat 2nd August)
  ...or if you miss the paper, purchase it online for $14.95 from EA Games.



• Install it, and sign-up to the Spore Website



• Create another Blog for Representation Studio. Use your name and the Course Code ARCH1390 to title your blog.
  E.g: yournameARCH1390.blogspot.com
  Install Spore Creature Creator on your own computer



• Create 10 Creatures using Spore Creature Creator, giving them names and descriptions, and post them to the Spore Website.



• Take image captures, and animations of 3 of your creatures interacting with their environment.



• Upload 3 images and 1 video (no longer than 10 seconds) for each creature to your blog, including the Creature Descriptions. (Total output 9 images and 3 videos)



• Bring a sketch book, and some type of sketching implement to the next studio, and each successive studio

Week 1 Studio Tasks

To be completed during Studio

• Install and Play with Spore Creature Creator, getting a feel for the interface


• Each student should create A couple creatures during Studio, and use each other to help discover tools


• You will find this extremely easy and fun


• Install Spore Creature Creator on your own laptop


• Begin Independent Study for Week 2

If you still want something else to do

Create a blog for this course (see Independent Study for Week 2 post, on the course blog).

• Use Sketchup to sketch out rough designs for 3 of your creatures to live in.


• Think about both interior and exterior spaces. Save the files and upload any images to your blog.



• These should be very quick, no more than 15 minutes spent on each dwelling.

Course Resources

All Resources for this course can be found at:

\\emustore\Resources\samples\Arch\ARCH1390 Representation Studio - Harkins


You can "ftp" to emustore at:

ftp://emustore.fbe.unsw.edu.au

then follow the path to the course folder.

Welcome to ARCH1390 - Digital Representation Studio

Welcome to the first Architectural Computing Studio for stage one students, Digital Representation Studio.

The main ideas running through this studio will be dissecting design representation, re-displaying traditional methods and creating new representational
techniques.

Use the right hand menu bar to navigate between other tutorial groups and Student Blogs.

Check this page regularly for course information.

Jeremy Harkins
Course Convener