Lectures are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 10am-11am, in Dempster 301.
Please read the slides, especially the Notes section at the start of each lecture, if you are not able to attend class. (Not attending class is, however, a very bad idea since I will be amplifying the slides with a lot more detail talking and sketching on the whiteboard.)
This is only approximate. As they become available there will be links to the slides (both PowerPoint and PDF).
| Date | Topic | Work |
|---|---|---|
| September 7 | Introduction, animation basics (ppt) | |
| September 9 | Animation principles, splines (ppt) | |
| September 12 | More on splines (ppt) | Assignment 0 due |
| September 14 | Motion curves and reparameterization (ppt) | |
| September 16 | Arclength, forward kinematics (ppt) | |
| September 19 | Inverse kinematics (ppt) | |
| September 21 | More IK optimization, character rigging, compositing (ppt) | |
| September 23 | Compositing, rendering (ppt) | |
| September 26 | Rendering (ppt) | |
| September 28 | Camera control (ppt) | |
| September 30 | Matchmove, particle systems (ppt) | |
| October 3 | Particle systems (ppt) | |
| October 5 | More particles (ppt) | |
| October 7 | Time integration, object geometry for collisions (ppt) | |
| October 10 | Thanksgiving: no class | |
| October 12 | Collisions (ppt) | Assignment 1 due. |
| October 14 | (class cancelled) | |
| October 17 | Collisions continued (ppt) | |
| October 19 | Spring constants and time steps (same slides) | |
| October 21 | Collisions finished (ppt) | |
| October 24 | Flocking, rigid bodies (ppt) | |
| October 26 | Rigid body motion (ppt) | |
| October 28 | Rigid body collisions | |
| October 31 | Morphing | |
| November 2 | FFD's, character skinning | |
| November 4 | Motion capture | |
| November 7 | Footskate, slerping | |
| November 9 | Motion graphs | Assignment 2 due |
| November 11 | Remembrance Day: no class | |
| November 14 | Motion planning, spacetime constraints | |
| November 16 | Motion warping and interpolating | |
| November 18 | Fourier analysis | |
| November 21 | Motion signal processing | |
| November 23 | Motion control | |
| November 25 | Advanced topics | |
| November 28 | Advanced topics | |
| November 30 | Review | |
| December 2 | Review |