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# Week 1 - Organizational Stuff

No real assignments (reading or written) for this week, but you will
need to get prepared for next week.

## Day 1 - Oranization

No real content, just a discussion as to what the class will be about.

## Day 2 - History of Film and Animation

Overview lecture. Hopefully with some video of old films.

Readings:
None

Web Resource:

+ My notes from 2002
  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/cs-838-2002/Lectures/01-Art-History-of-Animation.htm 
+ A great page about Melies
  http://www.mshepley.btinternet.co.uk/melies2.htm
+ Dan Mclaughin (UCLA Animation Scholar's) History of Animation
  http://animation.filmtv.ucla.edu/program/anihist.html
+ Web page of early animation at the Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html

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# Week 2 - Introduction

This week we'll get into real course content. Note that there are
assignments due each day.

## Day 3 - Topics in Animation

Assignment Due: What's interesting to you?
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~cs777-1/TextWeb/Assignments/Assignment01-Topics.html

Be prepared to discuss what you found during the assignment

## Day 4 - Principles of Animation

Assignment Due: You should have read Lasseter.

Reading:

+ (required - for class discussion)  
  _Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer
  animation_  
  by John Lasseter.
  SIGGRAPH '87.
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/37401.37407
  file:/p/graphics/public/quals/restore/Lasseter.1987.POT.pdf 
+ (not required, but worth it if you have access to it)
  The real reference for this stuff is the book "The Illusion of Life"
  by Thomas and Johnson. Chapter 3, Principles of Animation. This is a
  great book (its about the history of Disney animation) that was out
  of print for a long time. I started buying used copies on EBAY, but
  then it came back in print.
+ (suggested - as food for thought)
  - _Animation: from cartoons to the user interface._  
    by Bay-Wei Chang and David Ungar.
    UIST '93.
    http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/168642.168647  
    (link fixed 1/25/06)
  - _Applying cartoon animation techniques to graphical user
  interfaces._  
    Bruce Thomas and Paul Calder.
    ACM Trans. on Computer Human Interaction (ToCHI) Sep, 2001.
    http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/502907.502909

Other Resources:


## Day 5 - Historical Perspective on Animation Systems

Assignment Due (pre class): Read Catmull

Assignment for after class: Think about how other systems (either from
the readings or your experimentation) deal with some of the issues

Readings:
+ (required for discussion:)  
  _A System for Computer Generated Movies_  
  by Ed Catmull.
  Proceedings of the 1972 ACM Annual Conference
  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/800193.569952  
  file:/p/graphics/public/quals/restore/Catmull.1972.ASF.pdf
+ (suggested - as food for thought) 

  in the past, I've suggested
  looking at some other historically significant systems. You should 
  look at at least one of these.
  - (recommended: a system with interesting ideas)  
    _The Menv modelling and animation environment_  
    WT Reeves, EF Ostby, SJ Leffler
    Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 1990
    file:/p/graphics/public/quals/restore/Leffler.1990.TMM.pdf
  - Pete Litwinowicz's Inkwell System  
    _Inkwell a 2 1/2 D Animation System_  
    by Pete Litwinowicz
    SIGGRAPH '91
    http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=127719.122731
    file:/p/course/cs838-gleicher/public/Reader/InReader/04-inkwell.pdf
  - The early 2D system of Burtnyk and Wein  
    _Interactive Skeleton Techniques for Enhancing Motion Dynamics in
    Key Frame Animation_  
    by N. Burtnyk and Marceli Wein
    CACM, October 1976
    file:/p/course/cs838-gleicher/public/Reader/InReader/03-Burtnyk.pdf
+ (suggested - as food for thought) one of the key concepts is the
  idea of good parameterizations as a way to make things easier to
  control. These "simplicial modeling" papers have an unusual spin on
  the topic, and really make you think about it. The original paper
  is, unfortunately hard to read. Our paper on it has some ideas that
  really don't pan out as well as we'd have liked.
  - _Accessible animation and customizable graphics via simplicial
    configuration modeling_  
    by Tom Ngo, Doug Cutrell, Jenny Dana, Bruce Donald, Lorie Loeb and
    Shunhui Zhu.
    SIGGRAPH '00.
    http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/344779.344964
    file:p/course/cs838-gleicher/public/Reader/InReader/04Z-Ngo-Simplex.pdf
  - _Simplicial Families of Drawings_  
    by Lucas Kovar and Michael Gleicher.
    Proeedings of UIST '01.
    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Gallery/kovar.vol/Simplicial/
    file:/p/course/cs838-gleicher/public/Reader/InReader/04Z-Kovar-Simplicial.pdf

Other resources:
+ My notes from 2002:
  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/cs-838-2002/Lectures/02-Systems-History.htm