Spring 2004
| Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| Jan 21 | Jan 23 | |
| Welcome (SIGGRAPH deadline) |
Class Planning | |
| Jan 26 | Jan 28 | Jan 30 |
| Cartoons Reading: Lasseter 1987 |
Principles of Animation Reading: No Readings |
Animation Systems Reading: Catmul 1972, Leffler et al. 1990 |
| Feb 2 | Feb 4 | Feb 6 |
| Amber and Jeff Guest Lecture | NO CLASS | NO CLASS |
| Feb 9 | Feb 11 | Feb 13 |
| Art Assignment Critiques | Rotations 1 Reading: none |
Rotations 2 Reading: Grassia, Shoemake, ... |
| Feb 16 | Feb 18 | Feb 20 |
| Screening Reading: none |
Kinematics and Inverse Kinematics Reading: Maciejewski, Tolani et al. |
Human Motion Reading: Moulton et al., Perlin '94 |
| Feb 23 | Feb 25 | Feb 27 |
| Animation from Observation Reading: Gleicher Ch1 |
Motion Capture Processing Reading: Gleicher Appendix |
Puppetry Reading: Shin et al. |
| Mar 1 | Mar 3 | Mar 5 |
| Motion Editing Reading: Gleicher Ch |
Motion Editing Reading: Gleicher Ch |
Motion Graphs Reading: kovar++, gleicher++ |
| Mar 8 | Mar 10 | Mar 12 |
| Project Grading Day Project 1 Due |
NO CLASS | NO CLASS |
| Mar 15 | Mar 17 | Mar 19 |
| SPRING BREAK |
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| Mar 22 | Mar 24 | Mar 26 |
| TBD Reading: TBD |
Basic Physics Reading: Baraff & Witkin Notes sections B-D pages 7-31 |
Implicit Methods |
| Mar 29 | Mar 31 | Apr 2 |
| More Cloth |
Physics Reading: ILM (Kacic-Alesic) |
Constraints Reading: Witkin (sec F), Gleicher (ch 3 and opt 4) |
| Apr 5 | Apr 7 | Apr 9 | No Class Reading: |
No Class Reading: work on your projects! |
Control & Spacetime Project 2 Due Reading: Witkin & Kass |
| Apr 12 | Apr 14 | Apr 16 | Project 3 Proposals Reading: |
Geometry Reading: Sedergberg+, De Rose++ |
Skinning Reading: Lewis++, Mohr&Gleicher |
| Apr 19 | Apr 21 | Apr 23 | Filmmaking Project 3 Plans Reading: Read a film book |
Filmmaking Reading: Hochberg |
No Class Reading: TBD |
| Apr 26 | Apr 28 | Apr 30 |
| Projects Discussion Project 3 Status Reports Reading: TBD |
TBD Filmmaking Assignment Due Reading: TBD |
No Class |
| May 3 | May 5 | May 7 |
| Projects Discussion Reading: none |
Class Wrap Up Reading: none |
No Class Reading: TBD |
Topics to Schedule: Spacetime Editing & Retargeting, Faces, Smoke, Image Warping, Rigid Bodies
Total Class Days: 45
Total Classes Scheduled: 35