Animation Art and Technology

James Duesing

College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University

email: jduesing[at]andrew.cmu.edu

homepage of author: http://www-art.cfa.cmu.edu/duesing/

Jessica K. Hodgins

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

email: jkh[at]cs.cmu.edu

homepage of author: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~jkh/

homepage of course: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~jkh/aat/

References: ACM SIGGRAPH 2004, Educators Programm, James Duesing, Jessica K. Hodgins, Team Teaching Animation Art and Technology

• Title of course: Animation Art and Technology

• Aimed at what category of students: Computer Science students and Art students in an interdisciplinary mix

• Educators: Fine Arts, Computer Science

• Goal of course(s):

  • This class is a project-based course in which teams of students produce 4-5 animations. Most of the animations have a substantive technical component and the students are challenged to consider innovation with content to be equal with the technical.

• Prerequisites: Computer Graphics or Electronic Media Studio I and II

• Topics for lectures:

  • Maya:
    • Desktop and modeling, subdivision surfaces, keyframing and lighting
    • Setting up menus under linux, simple objects from scratch, mapping, rigging/blendshapes
    • Track editor, layering, shaders, fur
    • MEL / C++ programming demo of grouping behaviors
    • fluids, hair, cloth
  • Animations
    • Walking
    • Gas Planet
    • The Street
    • Bingo
    • Liquid Selves, Karl Sims
    • Wanting for Bridge, Joan Staveley, 1991
    • Bunny - Blue Sky
    • The Dog Who Was A Cat Inside - Passion Pictures
    • Solder Man
    • Creatures
    • F8
    • The Natures Ancient
    • The Making of Ryan
    • Tim Tom
    • For the Birds, Pixar
    • The Chubb Chubbs
    • The Cameraman's Revenge
    • This is not the end of the world
    • Rockfish
    • Balance
    • Cathedral
    • Eva Solal
    • PGi 13
    • Frank
    • Mickey's Garden
    • This Wonderful Life
    • On the Sunny Side of the Street
    • Chain Smoker
    • Coffee World
    • The Future is Wild
    • Oddworld Stranger CG Intro
    • Louis

• Software:

  • Maya Unlimited 6.0

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