Animation Art and Technology 15-465 and 60-414

Spring 2013 MW 1:30-4:20 in 303 CFA

Instructors: James Duesing and Jessica Hodgins

TAs: TBD

Description

Animation Art and Technology is an interdisciplinary course cross-listed between Art and Computer Science. Faculty and teaching assistants from computer science and art teach the class as a team. It is a project-based course in which four to five interdisciplinary teams of students produce 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. The class includes basic tutorials for work in Maya leading toward more advanced applications and extensions of the software such as motion capture and algorithms for animating cloth, hair, particles, and grouping behaviors.

On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

Demonstrate ability to work collaboratively with students from other disciplines.
Produce animation projects with substantive content and technical components.

Amimations from previous years are available here

Announcements

Some of you might want to apply to be student volunteers at SIGGRAPH 2013. Deadline February 5, 2013.
Project Teams:
- Geoffrey the Giraffe
  - Ashley Baron
  - Sachin Hegde
  - Michael Kamm
  - Emily Keener
- Little Lost Shadow
  - Cole Heiner
  - Jason Israel
  - Momo Jiao
  - Evan Shimizu
- Shards in Boxes
  - Melanie Danver
  - Jennifer Lee
  - Conrad Verkler
- Sophisticated Instinct
  - William Crownover
  - Shan Huang
  - Tia Li
  - Luo Yi Tan
  - Sahana Vijai
- Strangers In My House
  - Peter Appleby
  - Danielle Kogan
  - Dorothy Sheng
  - Rachel Tadeu
  - Cindy Xu

Administrative Info (TA's, book, grading, links to useful information).
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