15-464 Syllabus for Spring 2011

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

Week of Mon Weds
Jan 10 Course Overview Creating and Representing Motion: Mocap, Maya, ODE
Jan 17 Motion Style and Motion Editing Blending Poses and Shapes
Jan 24 DEMOS: Motion Capture Lab and Maya (WeH 1334) Inverse Kinematics
Jan 31 Mesh IK Mixed IK: Deformation with Joints
Feb 7 Planning PROJECT 1 DEMOS
Feb 14 PAPERS SESSION I PAPERS SESSION II
Feb 21 Guest Lecture: Ken Toh (Cloth Simulation and Manipulation)
  • Reading: Parent Ch7, Ch9 353-363
Physically-Based Simulation and more Cloth
Feb 28 PAPERS SESSIONS III and IV
  • Project 2 DUE
PROJECT 2 DEMOS
Mar 7 SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK
Mar 14 Final Project Brainstorming Fluids I
Mar 21 FINAL PROJECT PITCHES
FINAL PROJECT PITCHES
Mar 28 Fluids II
  • Project 3 DUE
PROJECT 3 DEMOS
Apr 4 Deformable Body Simulation
PAPER SESSION V
Apr 11 Physically Based Character Animation I
Physically Based Character Animation II
Apr 18 Guest Lecture 1 Guest Lecture 2
Apr 25 FINAL PRESENTATIONS
FINAL PRESENTATIONS