• Instructors: Rick Parent, Wayne Carlson
  • Content Description The course is designed around team projects combining computer sciece students with art students in designing a computer animation. The animation will incorporate artistic design, motion control, scene composition, lighting design and effects, object modeling, and rendering. Each team will consist of art-types and technical-types who must work together to meet the design goal. During the course, the following will be presented and discussed in class: computer animation, design principles, illumination models, geometric contruction techniques, etc.
  • Prerequisites: CIS681 for the technical students; design courses of the art types
  • List of Topics:
    • Introduction to Computer Animation: Modeling, Lighting and Texturing, Scene Composition, Motion Control, Rendering
    • Class Software
    • Modeling
    • Illumination and Lighting
    • Texturing and Aliasing
    • Scene Composition and Camera Set-Up
    • Motion Control: In-Betweening
    • Motion Control: Procedural Modeling
    • Special Effects: Particle Systems
    • Rendering: quality v. time
    • Post-Processing
    Last updated 1/3/97