15-464 / 15-664 Syllabus for Spring 2015

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

Week of	Tues	Thurs
Jan 13	Course Overview Assignment 0 OUT Reading: Parent Ch1	Introduction to Animation Reading: Parent Ch3 Slides
Jan 20	Final Project Ideas Keyframing related projects Puppetry related projects Motion Capture related projects Simulation related projects	Final Project Ideas 2 Crowds related projects Planning related projects Cloth related projects Fluids related projects Other projects
Jan 27	Motion Capture Demo Reading: Parent Ch6	Inverse Kinematics MiniProject 1 OUT IK slides IK technical paper IK for games article Part 1 IK for games article Part 2, CCD Reading: Parent Ch5 Reading: Parent Appendix B.3.4 (Quaternions)
Feb 3	More IK Reference List	Skinning Reference List
Feb 10	Papers Session I Papers list	MiniProject 1 Demos MiniProject 1 DUE at start of class
Feb 17	Simulation Reference List MiniProject 2 OUT Reading: Parent Ch7.1-7.4 Reading: Parent B.7 (Physics Primer) Reading: Parent B.8 (Numerical Integration Techniques)	Constraint-Based Simulation Reference List
Feb 24	Unified Position Based Simulation Reference List	Artistic Breaks, Bends, and Wrinkles Reference List
Mar 3	Papers Session II and NPR Characters Papers list Reference List	MiniProject 2 Demos MiniProject 2 DUE at start of class
Mar 10	SPRING BREAK	SPRING BREAK
Mar 17	Fluids Basics Reading: Parent Ch8 Reference List	Final Project Pitches
Mar 24	More Fluids Reference List	Paper Session III and follow-up Final Project Proposals DUE Papers list Reference list
Mar 31	NO CLASS -- Aaron Dollar 1pm GHC 6115	Deformables Reference list
Apr 7	Character Simulation Reading: Parent Ch9 Reference list	Character Control Reference list
Apr 14	Paper Session IV and follow-up Papers list Reference list	CARNIVAL
Apr 21	NO CLASS -- Anca Dragan 1pm GHC 6115	Guest lecture: Moshe Mahler (Disney)
Apr 28	Final Project Presentations	Final Project Presentations