Course Description
Advanced computer animation techniques and digital compositing which integrate live action with computer generated environments.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Research on technical, perceptual, and cognitive issues in image compositing.
Athena Title
Comp Animation Dram Media II
Prerequisite
FILM 5810 or THEA 5810E
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will create character animation worthy of a portfolio.
Topical Outline
- Introduction - Linkages - Skeletal Systems
- Design - Bipedal Skeletal System A
- Motion - Animate Walk Cycles A
- Character Design: Cinematic Motion - Animate Walk Cycles A
- Graph Editing: Cyclic Motion - Segmented Figure Model B; Animate Walk Cycles B
- Mesh Design - Animate Walk Cycles B
- Weight Maps - Animate Walk Cycles B
- Rigged Meshed Object C - Fully Textured
- Character Systems - Animate Cycles C
- Legged Skeletal Systems - Animate Cycles C
- Legged Skeletal Systems - Rigged Quadruped Mesh D
Syllabus
