Administivia:

Instructor: Barbara Mones-Hattal (mones@cs.washington.edu)
Time: Thursday,6:30 - 9:20, Saturday - TBA
Place: EE1 003
TA: Shawn Bonham (bonham@cs.washington.edu)
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Course Description


Student Workshop Schedules

Bibliography

Lecture Schedule

Date Lecture Topic
6/22 Introduction
6/29 Visual and Special Effects
7/6 Character and Experimental Animation
8/10 Animation Screening (starts at 7PM)
8/3 Motion Capture for Animators
8/17 Wrap up (optional)

Workshop Schedule

Date Workshop Topic Workshop Location
6/24,9:30-5 Intro to Maya (Shawn Bonham/Jason Ilano)  Sieg 231
7/1, 9-5 Soft Bodies and Dynamics in Maya (Mesmer) COMM B15
7/15, 9-5 Constraint Systems and Char Rigging in Maya (Mesmer) COMM B15
7/15,10-4, 7/16,10-1 Storyboarding (Kenneth Oconnel, U of Oregon) EE1 003
7/22, 10-1 Acting for Animators (Candace Vance and Karen Lund, Taproot Theatre) EE1 003
7/29,10-4 Puppetry and Animation (Jean Mattson, Puppeteers of America) EE1 003
8/19, 9-5 Character Animation (Mesmer)

COMM B15

Guest Lecture Schedule

Date Lecture Topic Workshop Location
7/15, 6-7 Storyboarding EE1 003
8/5 5-6 Acting for Animators EE1 003
8/12 5-6 Motion Capture in Animation Production EE1 003

 

Maya HotKeys

Software Links

Try Maya Free!

Alias Wavefront

3d Studio Max

Lightwave

SoftImage

 

Industry/Research Links

University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering

Microsoft Research

Industrial Light and Magic

University of Oregon

Pixar Animation Studios

Pacific Data Images

Grail


please send questions, comments, concerns to bonham@cs.washington.edu