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AD406 Introduction to 3-Dimensional Computer Animation
Instructor: Ralph De Stefano

Course Outline


Lecture notes are in Portable Document Format (PDF), which can be opened by Adobe Acrobat Reader on virtually every operating system.

Week
Discussion Topics
Notes
01
  • Course Introduction
  • Syllabus Review
n/a
02
  • The Mechanics of Animation
  • The Animation Production Process
  • Writing Treatments
  • The Alias Interface
anim02.pdf
03
  • Conceptualization - Story Structure
  • Scriptwriting
  • Keyframe Animation
  • Eases
  • Rendering and Output
anim03.pdf
04
  • Storyboarding I
  • Hierarchical Animation
  • Flipbook
  • SGI/QuickTime Movie Conversion
anim04.pdf
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storyboards
05
  • Storyboard II
  • Progressive Building in Animation
  • Working with Keyframes
  • Sets
anim05.pdf
06
  • Animating the Camera I
n/a
07
  • Animating the Camera II
anim07.pdf
08
  • Midterm
  • Storyboard Presentation and Critique
n/a
09 anim09.pdf -
xsheets.pdf
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  • Spring Break
n/a
10
  • Animating with Inverse Kinematics
  • Building IK Skeletons
anim11.pdf
11
  • Constraints
  • Scene Breakdown
anim12.pdf
12
  • Clusters
  • Deformation Animation
anim13.pdf
13
  • Character Builder
anim14.pdf
14
  • Shape Shifter
  • Run IK
n/a
15
  • Work on Final
n/a
16
  • Final Critique
n/a

Copyright © 1999 ralph de stefano. all rights reserved. reproduction without permission is prohibited. last modified january 10, 1999