What is one way to add more geometry to an existing mesh?
The extrude tool
100
To rotate, pan, or zoom around your scene, what button do you push in addition to using mouse?
Alt
100
With a material, what does the color attribute do?
Determines the material's color.
100
When designing, what is balance?
A distribution of visual weight.
100
What is the shortcut for the transform tool in Photoshop?
Ctrl-T
200
How the components that make a mesh are connected together and flow around the 3D object is describing
Topology
200
What is the shortcut to duplicate an object?
Ctrl-D
200
What does a material's transparency attribute do?
Makes the object transparent/see through.
200
What are the main four colors used when printing?
CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black)
200
What is an edge loop?
It is a series of edges connected across a surface with the last edge meeting the first.
300
Which of these should always be avoided and causes problems when texturing and deforming for animation?
N-Gon
300
Which axis does the colors Red, Green, and Blue correspond to?
Red = X; Green = Y; Blue = Z
300
What is a procedural texture?
A texture created in Maya based off of mathematical formulas
300
What is Digital Visualization?
Visual communication that includes images, models, designs, diagrams, and animations
300
What is a good naming convention for files?
projectName_yourName_version.extension
400
What is the name of the invisible line that is perpendicular to the surface of the polygon that determines how light will bounce off the geometry? (It makes your geometry appear completely black when it is reversed)
Normals
400
What keeps track of your actions and the tools you used when creating a model?
History
400
What is a 2D representation of a 3D object?
UV Map
400
What is a raster image?
A bitmap image that is resolution based and based on the amount of pixels that are in the file.
400
What material do you use when you don’t want to have a specular highlight?
Lambert
500
What are NURB surfaces?
Spline curves that are used to create smooth, minimals surfaces and geometry.
500
What is the correct way to delete Edges in Maya?
Delete Edge/Vertex Tool (Ctrl - Delete)
500
What is a bump map?
Determines which part of a mesh has the illusion of small dents and dips.
500
Which color wheel uses an additive color system?
RGB (Red, Green, Blue)
500
What is a series of connected edges across a surface that meets where it began?