Week	Day	Lecture topics	Slides, Additional Material, Readings	Notes Assignments Due dates
1	Wed Jan 4	Overview of class Overview of Project group-base, quater-long, animation design and production Overview of Technical Groups Class Software: Maya & MEL Videos: review past project videos from last year Initial Group Formation	Introduction to Course ppt, pdf Kerlow (pdf) O'Rourke (pdf)	Individuals: Solar system animation
2	Mon Jan 9	Group formation Project description & examples Technical group formation Maya introduction Storyboards	Maya UI ( ppt, pdf ) Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation Tricks to Animating Characters with a Computer	meet in CL112D Project groups: Rough storyboard Project groups: Web page documentation Tech groups: Technical reports
	Wed Jan 11	Present rough storyboards Demo solar systems Technical group work time		meet in Koffolt 330 Due: Rough storyboards Assign: 3D Animatic (group) meet in CL112D Due: Solar system
3	Mon Jan 16	HOLIDAY
	Wed Jan 18	Technical Group Reports: Modeling; Lighting (graded) Maya internal structure: Nodes, attributes, connections, DG, DAG, hypergraph, outliner	Notes on Maya concepts Maya internal structure ( ppt,pdf)	meet in KL330 Due: Modeling and Lighting Technical group reports
4	Mon Jan 23	Present technical Group Reports, continued (graded) Review project report requirements		meet in KL330 Due: Technical group reports
	Wed Jan 25	Project Reports (Graded)		In KL330 Due: 3D Animatic Due: Initial web page docs Project Report #1
5	Mon Jan 30	introduction to MEL Maya Internals (ppt) MEL (ppt) Physically based modeling work period for MEL & Python scripting I'll meet with groups individually to discuss group organization and progress	Introduction to Procedural Animation (pdf)	In KL330 Assign: MEL tasks (individual) In CL112D
	Wed Feb 1	Script work period Group work session		In CL112D
6	Mon Feb 6	Particle Expressions Behavioral animation and more Physically based modeling Videos: historical pieces of Pixar, Butterflies in the Rain Discuss documentation (web page) requirements Demo of MEL tasks	mel particle ex. History of Pixar	in KL330 in CL112D Due: MEL tasks
	Wed Feb 8	Group work time		in CL112D
7	Mon Feb 13	Project Reports (graded) all groups updated animatic updated timeline, milestones updated models and stills sample stills - more fully renderings of scenes sample motion sequences individual task allocation and procedural elements sample rendering times and estimate of total rendering time needed by project		in KL330 Project Report #2 Due: Grade web page docs
	Wed Feb 15	group work day Individual Group Review		in CL112D
8	Mon Feb 20	group work day		in CL112D
	Wed Feb 22	Project Reports (Graded) all groups Report: Recent progress status of procedural elements Plan to complete the project: est. rendering times This should NOT be a complete presentation of the project This should be an update of the project since the last presentation Present anything that you've recently updated: Updated animatic Updated timeline, milestones, and status New high quality stills of scene New motion sequences		in KL330 Project Report #3
9	Mon Feb 27	group work day		in CL112D
	Wed Feb. 29	group work day		in CL112D
10	Mon Mar 5	Project Reports (Graded): all groups Report: Recent progress State of the project Plan to complete the project Procedural elements including: Updated (finalized) animatic Updated timeline, milestones, and status Sample high quality stills of scene Sample motion sequences Status of procedural elements Finalized rendering plan including Maya's procedural techniques Sample rendering times and estimate of total rendering time needed by project Schedule Final Exam: Know your time constraints during finals week		in KL330 Project Report #4
	Wed Mar 7	group work day		in CL112D
Finals	Wed 12:30-3:30, room DL263	Final Presentations individually summarize contribution to the project including: main responsibilities highlight any particularly problematic tasks undertaken procedural work other contributions To be handed in: playable DVD of your animation CD with web pages (web pages do not have to link to each other), scripts of all members with author identified, playable movie file

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