15-464 Syllabus for Fall 2009

This is a tentative syllabus. There will be more reading material posted as the course proceeds.

Week of	Tue	Thu
Aug 25	Course Overview Reading: Parent Ch1	Creating and Representing Motion: Mocap, Maya, ODE Reading: Parent Ch5 187-200 Reading: ASF/AMC handout
Sept 1	DEMOS: Motion Capture Lab and Maya Project 1 OUT Reading: Parent Ch6	Motion Style and Motion Editing Reading: Walk cycles handout Reading: Wang et al., The Cartoon Animation Filter, SIGGRAPH 2006 Reading: Parent Ch9 325-353 Splines help Reading: Parent Appendix B5 Reading: Splines handout
Sept 8	Blending Poses and Shapes Reading: Igarashi, Moscovich, and Hughes, Spatial Keyframing for Performance-driven Animation Reading: Igarashi, Moscovich, and Hughes, "As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation Reading: Parent Ch 4.3-4.5	PAPERS SESSION I
Sept 15	Inverse Kinematics I Project 1 DUE Project 2 OUT Reading: Parent Ch5 200-215	PROJECT 1 DEMOS
Sept 22	CLASS CANCELLED (GHC Dedication)	Inverse Kinematics II
Sept 29	Guest Lecture: Eakta Jain Reading: Jain et al., Leveraging the Talent of Hand Animators to Create Three-Dimensional Animation, SCA 2009.	Physics-Based Simulation - Intro Project 2 DUE Project 3 OUT Reading: Parent Ch7, Ch9 353-363 Reading: Baraff and Witkin SIGGRAPH 2007 course notes Reading: Baraff and Witkin Large Steps in Cloth Simulation, SIGGRAPH 1998 (implicit integration) Reading: Bridson et al. Robust Treatment of Collisions, Contact, and Friction for Cloth Animation, SIGGRAPH 2002
Oct 6	PROJECT 2 DEMOS	Fluids I Reading: Parent Ch8 Reading: Foster and Metaxas, Realistic Animation of Liquids, GMIP, 1996. Reading: Stam, Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games, GDC, 2003.
Oct 13	Fluids II	PAPERS SESSION II
Oct 20	Final Project Brainstorming Project 3 DUE Final Project OUT	PROJECT 3 DEMOS
Oct 27	Deformable Bodies Simulation	PAPERS SESSION III and Guest Lecture Junggon Kim
Nov 3	FINAL PROJECT PROPOSALS	FINAL PROJECT PROPOSALS
Nov 10	Physically Based Character Animation I	Physically Based Character Animation II
Nov 17	PAPERS SESSION IV	Advanced Topics in Technical Animation Reading: Parent Ch10
Nov 24	PAPERS SESSION V	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Dec 1	FINAL PRESENTATIONS	FINAL PRESENTATIONS