Gary Jacobs
Assistant Professor
School of Design
College of Art and Design
585-475-2668
Office Mailing Address
1 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623
Gary Jacobs
Assistant Professor
School of Design
College of Art and Design
Education
BFA, University of Northern Colorado; MFA, Pennsylvania State University
Bio
Gary D. Jacobs has over twenty years of digital design and illustration experience.
His clients and projects include theme park attractions, public architectural spaces and environmental graphics. He enjoys working with clients to create evocative visual solutions that engage and involve the viewer in interactive experiences.
585-475-2668
Areas of Expertise
3D Modeling and Motion
Creative Entrepreneurship
Unreal Engine
Blender
Maxon Cinema 4D
Autodesk Revit
Trimble SketchUp
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Substance Painter
Quixel Mixer
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Shows/Exhibits/Installations
Jacobs, Gary D. Airport Canopy. 2 Nov. 2018. Rochester International Airport, Rochester. Installation.
Currently Teaching
DDDD-103
Imaging for 3D
3 Credits
This course provides experience in generating images, both still and moving, for use with the three-dimensional software environment. Students learn techniques for drawing perspective and orthographic views as well as cabinet drawings, oblique drawings, and other techniques. Students learn to create curves to import for model creation, to capture images photographically to use as textures, to create wrapping textures, to compile multiple frames into a movie, to merge segments together into a single movie, to record and incorporate audio elements, and to export results to the web and other media. Students learn to use a green screen to add live elements to their work.
DDDD-201
Modeling and Motion Strategies
3 Credits
This course provides extensive coverage of methods for modeling where evaluation of the appropriate modeling method to use in various situations is key. The emphasis in the course is on problem solving. Modeling challenges of various types are incorporated into the projects. With these techniques students create complex models of organic and inorganic forms using many techniques.
DDDD-522
Environment Design
3 Credits
This course covers modeling techniques useful in developing environments, both interior and exterior. The content of the course covers proportions appropriate to a variety of environments, lighting for spaces, surface design to replicate real world materials, and building to an appropriate level of detail for the circumstance.
DDDD-599
3D Digital Design Independent Study
1 - 6 Credits
3D Digital Design Independent Study will provide students with the ability to study in a specialized area with an individual faculty member. Students, with the assistance of a faculty advisor will propose a course of study. 3D Digital Design independent study students must obtain permission of an instructor and complete the Independent Study Permission Form to enroll.