CPSC 426 Lectures

I am thoroughly overhauling the course this term, and replacing previous text books (which aren't terribly good) with new course notes, which I am in the process of writing as we go. Therefore there isn't a definite lecture schedule yet.

However, here's a planned outline of the course, in order:

Basics

Fundamentals of Animation (perception, principles, pipelines)
Motion Curves (bezier splines and more)
Forward Kinematics (standard keyframing)
Inverse Kinematics (generalized to optimization)

Rendering and Compositing

Overview of High Quality Rendering, Composition Operations
Mattes
Matchmove

Passive Animation

Particle Systems
Rigid Bodies

Advanced Character Animation

Motion Capture
Controllers

Course Notes

I will post course notes as they are finished (or are in a good enough state to be used for the next part of the course). These will tie in with assigned work.

Chapter 1: The Basics of Animation
Chapter 2 (part a): Motion Curves
Chapter 2 (part b): more splines!
Chapter 3 (part a): Forward Kinematics
Chapter 3 (part b): skinning
Chapter 3 (part c): camera control - incomplete
Chapter 4 (part a): Inverse Kinematics
Chapter 4 (part b): start of optimization
Chapter 4 (part c): the rest of optimization
Chapter 4 (part d): matchmove
Chapter 5 (part a): Rendering, start of shading
Chapter 5 (part b): raytracer shaders, aliasing
Chapter 5 (part c): shading tricks
Chapter 6 (part a): Compositing
Chapter 6 (part b): matting
Chapter 7: quick notes on automatic animation

Some extra things to take a look at if you're curious:

Paul Debevec's history of environment mapping.