Calendar
The following is a tentative schedule of classes. Topics and due dates are subject to change, although you will be notified in advance if this happens.
Week 1, Aug 25 + 27
Course introduction; policies & overview; hard drive assignments; student works from previous class. Introduce Assignment 1
Camera control, continuity, and narrative development
Storyboarding, sequential art
Week 2, Sept 1 + 3
NO CLASS SEPTEMBER 1 [LABOR DAY HOLIDAY]
Critique: Assignment 1
Introduce Assignment 2
Week 3, Sep 8 + 10
Project planning
Storyboarding
Concept Design
Displacement map; endoMorph,
Parenting "systems", aligning to path, targeting
Node editor
Week 4, Sep 15 + 17
Work in class
Week 5, Sep 22 + 24
Critique: Assignment 2
Introduce Assignment 3 Bones and weight maps.
Forward Kinematics.
Week 6, Sep 29 + Oct 1
Skelegons.
Inverse Kinematics.
IK Booster.
Rigging Continued
Work in classRigging Continued
Work in class
Week 7, Oct 6 + Oct 8
Work in class
Work in class
Week 8, Oct 13 + 15
Critique: Assignment 3
Introduce Assignment 4
VFX Review:300 Basic compositing
Dynamic parenting
Hard dynamics
Week 9, Oct 20 + 22
Work in class
VFX Review:24 Detailed compositing
layout modeling to match background, sas-lite
Week 10, Oct 27 + 29
VIPER, Soft dynamics
particle emitters
Work in class
Work in class
Week 11, Nov 3 + 5
Work in class
Week 12, Nov 10 + 12
Controlling Lightwave: configs, buttons and LScripts
Work in class
Week 13, Nov 17 + 19
Final project storyboard due [thumbnails]
Work in class
Work in class
Week 14, Nov 24 + 26
Intent & Narration due
Final Project storyboards due [large boards]
NO CLASS November 26 [Thanksgiving Holiday]
Week 15, Dec 1 + 3
Rough animations due
Work in class
Week 16, Dec 8 + 10
Work in class
Critique: Assignment 5
All REDONE Assignments DUE by 8:00pm on 12/15 for grading!!!
Week 17, Dec 15
Introduce the take-home final exam.
Final exam due. CD/DVD documentation due.
Final scheduled:
8:00PM - 10:00 PM Monday December 15