18 Organizational Meeting

20 History of Animation

23 Topics in Graphics and Animation Due: Assignment 1 - What's Interesting?

25 Principles of Animation Read: Principles

27 Animation Systems Read: Systems Due: Reading Summaries

30 Rotations Read: Rotations

1 Rotations and Kinematics Read: Rotations 2

3 Inverse Kinematics Read: IK (1) Due: Reading Summaries

6 Human Motion and Motion Capture

8 Project Ideas Discussion Due: Assignment 2 - Art

10 Motion Editing Due: Proposal 1 Due: Reading Summaries

13 Motion Blending

15 Parametric Synthesis

17 Due: Reading Summaries

20 Concatenative Synthesis

22 Concatenative Synthesis

24 Due: Reading Summaries

27 Puppetry

1 Skinning and Rigging

3 Due: Reading Summaries

6 Skinning

8 Project Discussion Due: Projectlet 1

10 Start break early! Due: Proposal 2 Due: Reading Summaries

13 Spring Break

15 Spring Break

17 Spring Break

20 Film Arts Read: Film Book

22 Film Arts Read: Film Perception

24 Film Arts Due: Film Assingnment Due: Reading Summaries

27 Basic Physics Read: Physics 1

29 Penalty Methods, Constraints

31 Read: Physics 2

3 Cloth Read: Cloth 1

5 Cloth Read: Cloth 2

7 Due: Projectlet 2 Due: Reading Summaries

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12 Fluids Read: Fluids

14 Due: Reading Summaries

17 Collisions Read: Collisions

19 Flocks and Crowds

21 Due: Reading Summaries

24 Warping and Morphing

26 Spacetime and Control Read: spacetime

28 Due: Reading Summaries

1 Work on projects

3 Project Discussions

5 Project Discussions Due: Projectlet 3

There is no exam for this class!