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 Technical group formation Maya introduction Storyboards	Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation Tricks to Animating Characters with a Computer	meet at ACCAD Assign: Rough storyboard (group) Assign: Web page documentation (group) Assign: Technical reports (tech. group) Assign: Solar system animation (individual)
2	Mon Jan 11	Demo solar systems (if not in Modeling or Animation Technical Groups) MEL programming overview Technical group work time	Maya internals (ppt) Maya overview	meet at ACCAD Assign: MEL tasks (indiv.) Due: Concept Statement Due: Solar system for students not in the Modeling or Animation Technical Groups
	Wed Jan 13	Present Technical Group Reports: Modeling & Animation Present Animatics & task assignments		meet in DL317 Due: rough Story Boards Due: Modeling, Animation Technical Group Reports
3	Mon Jan 18	HOLIDAY
	Wed Jan 20	Demo solar systems (for students in Modeling or Animation Technical Groups) Present Technical Group Reports: Lighting/Shading & Rendering/Project Management Present Animatices & task assignments		meet at ACCAD Due: Technical group reports: Lighting/Shading & Rendering/Project Managment Due: web sites Due: solor systems for Modeling and Animation Tech Groups Due: MEL tasks for Post-Production Group Due: Animatics & task assignments
4	Mon Jan 25	tech reports MEL demos		meet at ACCAD Due: Technical group report: UV Mapping Due: MEL tasks for groups other than PP
	Wed Jan 27	3D Layout and Planning Lecture		meet at ACCAD
5	Mon Feb 1	tech report and work day		meet at ACCAD Due: Technical group report: Rendering/Project Management
	Wed Feb 3	tech report and work day		meet at ACCAD Due: Technical group report: Post-production Due: 3D layout
6	Mon Feb 8	group work day		meet at ACCAD
	Wed Feb 10	group work day		meet at ACCAD
7	Mon Feb 15	group work day		meet at ACCAD
	Wed Feb 17	group work day		meet at ACCAD
8	Mon Feb 22	group work day		meet at ACCAD
	Wed Feb 24	group work day		meet at ACCAD
9	Mon Mar 1	procedural presentations		meet at ACCAD
	Wed Mar 3	story critiques		meet at ACCAD
10	Mon Mar 8	group work day		meet at ACCAD
	Wed Mar 10	group work day		meet at ACCAD
Finals	Wed; 1:30-4:00	Final Presentations location: TBA

Last updated 10/1/09

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