Course detail

Modelling - Relief Design

FSI-YMLAcad. year: 2015/2016

The subject follows course “Modelling – 3D work”, it focuses on modelling a relief of head by plaster bust. It allows students developing knowledge in modelling techniques and gaining experience for building 3D volume and character of objects in space.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. akad. soch. Ladislav Křenek, ArtD.

Department

Institute of Machine and Industrial Design (ÚK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The subject supports development of ability to put down student´s visual ideas and fantasies, it leads deepening the sense for mass in space, guessing measures, volumes and distances and develops the basic craft of clay modelling.

Prerequisites

Good knowledge of perspective in drawing and experience of modelling skull and head by plaster bust are prerequisite.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Creative work in ateliers.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded course-unit credit requirements: Attendance at exercises, meeting assigned projects deadlines.
Resulting evaluation consists of evaluations on tasks. In total it will be possible to aquire 100 points. Resulting classification will be defined by the ECTS scale.
If some of the projects are awarded less than half of the maximum pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed".
According to the article No. 13 of Study and Examination Rules of Brno University of Technology ECTS evaluation degree scale is used. . If some of the projects are awarded less than 50 pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed". The course is evaluated with the following grades: ECTS EVALUATION DEGREES / PTS. RATING / NUMERIC RATING: A / 100 - 90 / 1 / Excellent; B /89 - 80 / 1,5 / Very good; C / 79 - 70 / 2 / Good; D / 69 - 60 / Satisfactory; E / 59 - 50 / Sufficient; F / 49 - 0 / 4 / Failed.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim is to get students acquainted with modelling of relief. Practical workshops focus on modelling head according to plaster bust, emphasizing the building of volume and proportions.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The attendance in workshop education is controlled. Students have to be present in scheduled hours in the schoolroom, work on given projects and wait for consultation, unless a lecturer gives other individual plan. The excuse of absence is possible only due serious reasons such as illness. Unexcused absence may jeopardise work acceptance.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BAMMES, Gottfried. Der nackte Mensch: Hand und Lehrbuch der Anatomie für Künstler. Dresden: VEB Verlag der Kunst, 1982. ISBN 3-364-00016-6.
GOLDFINGER, Eliot. Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0195052060.
KOS, Jaroslav a Pavel ŽILÁK. Anatomie člověka pro výtvarníky. Praha: Aventinum, 1996. ISBN 80-85277-98-0.

Recommended reading

KOS, Jaroslav a Pavel ŽILÁK. Anatomie člověka pro výtvarníky. Praha: Aventinum, 1996. ISBN 80-85277-98-0.
MALIVA, Josef. Doteky s uměním a časem II. díl: Přehled dějin umění od baroka do poloviny 20. století. Brno: Vysoké učení technické v Brně, 1997. ISBN 80-214-1088-4.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B3901-3 Bachelor's

    branch B-PDS , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory