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Animation Art and Technology 15-465 and 60-414

Spring 2009 MW 1:30-4:20 in 303 CFA

Instructors: James Duesing andJessica Hodgins

TAs: Eric Foote and Amanda Long

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.

Announcements

• Some of you might want to apply to be student volunteers at SIGGRAPH 2009. Deadline February 23.

Teams

• Artbot
  • JUSTINE AYLMER, jaylmer
  • JAMES CHAN, jamescha
  • ISHITA KAPUR, ikapur
  • JULIA KENNEDY, jkkenned
  • YANG SHAN, yshan
• Life Cycle
  • LAUREN HECHT, lhecht
  • ERIN MCCARTY, emccarty
  • JEFFREY PANZA, jpanza
  • MADELEINE PITSCH, mpitsch
• The Matchstick
  • ROBYN GRAY, rtgray
  • CHAYA HIRUNCHAROENVATE, chirunch
  • ROHANA SHAH, rshah
  • JERRY FENG, jerryf
  • MADHURI KOUSHIK, mkoushik
• Mr. Mummy
  • XIAOYUAN JIANG, xiaoyuan
  • SARAH LIM, seungyol
  • NIRAV PATEL, nrp
  • NISHEETH SHARMA, nisheeth
  • RICHARD WANG, rpw
• Rock Paper Scissors
  • JONATHAN CISCON, jciscon
  • CHAITHANYA KAMATH, ckamath
  • JY-HUEY LIN, jyhueyl
  • ERICA SANDBOTHE, efs
  • ANGELA WANG, angelaw
• Underwater
  • RACHEL DORRETT, rdorrett
  • ELIZABETH LIU, esliu
  • JANET LEE, janetlee
  • DMITRY PORTNOY, dportnoy
  • ALYSSA REUTER, areuter
• Vita
  • SIMRAN KOONJUL, gskoonju
  • ZEYANG LI, zeyangl
  • SUSAN LIN, susanlin
  • KRISTIN SIU, kasiu
  • REBECCA SCULLY, rscully

• Administrative Info (TA's, book, grading, links to useful information).
• Schedule
• Assignments and Homeworks.