CSC 2529 Winter 2004 Calendar

• Lecture (Karan Singh) : Introduction to Computer Graphics, Animation Principles, Character Development, Storyboarding.

Week 2 (Jan 18)

• Lecture (Karan Singh) : Maya Fundamentals.

Week 3 (Jan 25)

• Lecture (Karan Singh) : Character modeling, layered construction of characters.

Week 4 (Feb 1)

• Paper presentations: Skeletal Dynamics

        Martin De Lasa Interactive Skeleton-Driven Dynamic Deformations
 

• Paper presentations: Layered characters, skinning:

  Noah Lockwood Layered Acting For Character Animation (project page) (project page)

   Patricio Simari The Space of Human Body Shapes: Reconstruction and Parameterization From Range Scans (research group page)  Brett Allen, Brian Curless, Zoran Popović (University of Washington)  SIG 03

• Lecture (Chris Landreth) : Facial Animation

Week 7 (Feb. 22)

• reading week, no class.

• Paper presentations: Facial Animation, Jacky Bibliowicz

• Lecture (Karan Singh) Skeletal Control

Week 10 (Mar. 15)

• Paper presentations: Skeletal control, motion capture:

  Jack Wang Composable Controller for Physics-Based Character Animation  Petros Faloutsos, Michiel van de Panne (University of Toronto), Demetri Terzopoulos (New York University and University of Toronto) SIG 01

          Anand Agarawala Motion Doodles SIG 04

Week 11 (Mar. 22)

•  Paper presentations: Behavioral Animation: Mike McGuffin, Adam Robson.

• Paper presentations: Animation Interfaces: Steve Tsang.

Week 13

• Review of class projects.