Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Required
None. Reading assignments will be provided by the instructor.
textbook
Course Notebook/Sketchbook
Materials Archive Material: e.g, CD or DVD
Assignments Getting
and Week Assign-
Topics Maya Started with
Academic Date ment
Mata
Calendar
(in Maya)
(Calendar is
Help ->
subject to
Tutorials ->
change at the
Setting up (in Maya
discretion of
keys, graph Help
the instructor.
editor. window)
Check
Groups, Learning
periodically History of
parenting, Resources -
for updates.)
Wk 1 animation hierarchy. > Tutorials -
A1 given
8/22 Keyframe Changing > Getting
animation order of Started with
Maya ->
transformation
Animation -
(bouncing ball
> Lesson 1
demo 1) Keyframing
and the
Graph
Editor
A1
process
Deformer
book due
(bounding
Hierarchy Reading:
Wk 2 ball demo 2), Lasseter's
Order of
8/29 Playblast paper &
transformation
(hardware Principles
rendering) of
Animation
Lecture by
A1 work
Wk 3 Bruce Barnes:
in
9/5 Principles of
progress
animation
Expressions
(bouncing ball Animation -
Wk 4 Cinematography: demo 3), > Lesson 2 A1 due
9/12 Camera Driven keys Set Driven A2 given
(bouncing ball key
demo 4)
Character
Setup:
A2
Wk 5 Skeleton and IK handles Lesson 1
process
9/19 kinematics and solvers (skeletons
book due
and
kinematics)
Animating bi- A2 work-
Wk 6 Animal/human
in-
9/26 movements ped walk
progress
Wk 7 Study for mid- Character for A2 due
10/3 term A3 A3 given
A3
Wk 8
Mid-term process
10/10
book due
Limiting and A3 work-
Wk 9 Shape
damping joint in-
10/17 interpolation
rotation progress
Wk Lecture by A3 work-
10 Bruce Barnes: in-
10/24 Timing progress
Character
Setup:
Lesson 2
Wk 11 (smooth A3 due
Binding skin
10/31 skinning) A4 given
SmoothSkins.
mb
Dynamics -> A4
Wk 12 Procedural
Lessons 1 & process
11/7 animation
2 book
Portfolio
preparation A4 work-
Wk 13
Title & credits, in-
11/14
Motion capture progress
demo
Wk 14 Final project
A4 due
11/21 presentation
Finals
week
11/28
A 90 - 100%
B 80 - 89%
C 70 - 79%
D 60 - 69%
F Below 60% is failing
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