Week	Day	Lecture topics	Slides, Additional Material, Readings	Notes Assignments Due dates
1	Mon Jan 4	Overview of class Overview of Project group-base, quater-long, animation design and production Overview of Technical Groups Class Software: Maya & MEL Videos: review past project videos from last year Initial Group Formation	Introduction to Course (pdf) Kerlow (pdf) O'Rourke (pdf)
	Wed Jan 6	Group formation Project description & examples Technical group formation Maya introduction Storyboards, aesthetics	Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation Tricks to Animating Characters with a Computer	meet in CL112D Assign: Rough storyboard (group) Assign: Web page documentation (group) Assign: Technical reports (tech. group) Assign: Solar system animation (individual)
2	Mon Jan 11	Present rough storyboards Demo solar systems Technical group work time		meet in CL112D Due: Rough storyboards Due: Solar system Assign: 3D Animatic (group)
	Wed Jan 13	Present technical Group Reports (graded) Nodes & hypergraph in Maya MEL scripting & object attributes	Maya internals (ppt) Maya overview (pdf)	meet in CL112D Due: Technical group reports
3	Mon Jan 18	HOLIDAY
	Wed Jan 20	Present technical Group Reports, continued (graded) nodes, attributes, DG, DAG, MEL Review project report requirements	Maya Internals (ppt) MEL (ppt)	meet in CL112D Due: Technical group reports Assign: MEL tasks (individual)
4	Mon Jan 25	Project Reports (Graded)		In DL317 Due: 3D Animatic Due: Initial web page docs Project Report #1
	Wed Jan 27	Project Reports (Graded)
5	Mon Feb 1	Introduction to non-linear editing Introduction to digital lighting (3-point lights) Introduction to digital cinematography	Digital Cinematography ppt Non-Linear Editing ppt	In DL317 Project Report #1
	Wed Feb 3	demo MEL tasks (individuals) Introduction to Premier: Baking simulations in Maya Outputting numbered frame files from Maya Importing numbered frame files into Premier Group work time		In CL112D Due: MEL tasks
6	Mon Feb 8	Reference and Proxy files in Maya Procedural animation overview Review basic physics: F=ma, spring-damper systems, gravity Group work time	Introduction to Procedural Animation (pdf) Forces: ppt, pdf	in DL317
	Wed Feb 10	Midterm Technical Development of Animation & Computer Animation Video samples: Hunger, Not Just Reality (early Utah animation), Steel can ad, Last Starfighter, TRON, Looker, Final Fantasy	Wikipedia's Timeline of CGI in film and television Wayne Carlson's An Historical Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation	in DL317 Midterm
7	Mon Feb 15	Project Reports (graded) updated animatic updated timeline, milestones, task allocation updated models and stills sample motion sequences sample stills sample rendering times and estimate of total rendering time needed by project final list of procedural elements		in DL317 Project Report #2
	Wed Feb 17	group work day		in CL112D
8	Mon Feb 22	demo progress: (not graded) group work day		in CL112D demos
	Wed Feb 24	group work day (tentative)		in CL112D
9	Mon Mar 1	demo progress: (not graded) group work day		in CL112D demos
	Wed Mar 3	group work day (tentative)		in CL112D
10	Mon Mar 8	Project Reports (Graded) Pixar visitors		in DL317 Project Report #3
	Wed Mar 10	Final		in DL317 Final
Finals	day & time	Final Presentations:

Last updated 10/1/09

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