CSS 105 - Interdisciplinary Information Technology: Computer Animations Spring 2007              Room: UW1-121           T/TR: 11:00am – 1:05pm

CSS105 Computing and Software Systems UW Bothell

Welcome to our home page. Here, you will find:

• The syllabus for the course.
• This is your standing in this class at this point. You will be identified by the last 4 numbers of your student number. Please let me know if there are any mistakes.

• Reminder: Final project presentation: Thursday June 7^th at 11:00AM (in our usual lab: UW1-121).

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In class activities:

• Week9:
• Due Tuesday (May 22):
1. Project 4 (including report!)
• Due Thursday (May 24):
1. Responsibility form
2. Locked (done)–
1. Story done, locked.
2. Separated movie files for each music segment!
3. Prop modeling/material
4. Scene setup
5. Hero Modeling
3. Hero Animation
4. Scene rendering: lighting and shadowing
5. Prop placement: final adjustments
6. Camera animation
• Week8:
• Here is the feedback from lecture of May 17, 2007
• Due Thursday (May 17):
1. Responsibility form
2. DONE:
1. Storyreel – Audio and Timing should be locked.
2. Separated movie files for each music segment!
3. Prop: modeling and materials done!
3. Placement of prop in the scene
1. Egg:
1. nice sky and grass
2. nest should have branches sticking out
3. should have more leafs and branches
2. Fish:
1. many start fishes
2. many sea weeds, etc.
4. Hero objects modeling
5. Begin animating cameras for the shots
• Week7:
• Due Tuesday (May 8):
1. Project 3 (including report!)
• Due Thursday (May 10):
1. Responsibility form
2. Storyreel – Audio and Timing should be locked.
1. Separated movie files for each music segment!
3. Hero/Prop objects modeling
4. Prop object shading/material
• Week6:
• Here is the feedback from lecture of May 3, 2007.
• Due Thursday (May 3):
1. Responsibility form
2. Storyreel – final adjustments clarifying all transitions with timing locked in.
3. Hero object modeling
4. Background object shading/material (part of Project 3)
1. Fish: start trying out sea background
2. Egg: start trying forest? Or Sky?
• Week5:
• Here is the feedback from lecture of April 26, 2007.
• Due Tuesday (Apr 24):
1. Project 2 (including report!)
• Due Thursday (Apr 26):
1. Responsibility form
2. Storyreel with audio (timing must be finalized)
3. Textures for hero and background
4. Representative postures for the hero
• Week4:
• Here is the feedback from lecture of April 19, 2007.
• Due Thursday (Apr 19):
1. Responsibility form
2. Refined storyreel with more drawings
1. Writeup: describe the storyreel improvement
2. Presentation should include old reel and show new reel
3. Hero object drawing/photo from different views
4. Identify/Sketch background objects
• Week3:
• Here is the feedback to our AVI storyreel from the lecture of April 12, 2007.
• Due Tuesday (Apr 10): Project 1
• Due Thursday (Apr 12):
1. Responsibility form
2. Storey re-write: description of what happen + target audience reaction
3. AVI Story with (at least) one drawing per shot
• Week2:
• Here is the feedback to our stories from the lecture of April 5, 2007.
• Due Tuesday (Apr 3):
1. Responsibility form.
2. Story write up (should not be more than 10-20 sentences).
• Week1:
• Notes from first lecture: evaluation of Kelvin’s project, comments on PIXAR’s projects, and introduction of ourselves.
• Comments on initial story pitch.

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Projects:

Programming Assignments (E-submit zipped project to: \\hermes\Classes\CSS105)	Sample Results
Project 1: Using the Maya animation tool and Computer System.	My Report
Project 2: Modeling Techniques. By this point you should have some idea what your hero and supporting (background) objects are. You should practice modeling techniques relevant to your final project.	My Report
Project 3: Rendering. You should define shaders for the objects you created in Project 2. Take note of draft rendering, final rendering/animation, and batch rendering.	My Report
Project 4: Animation. Create/practice animations that are relevant to your final project.	My Report

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Useful Information for our final projects:

• Media tools: Here is some information on the tools we will be using in this class.
• Maya PLE: Here is a link to Maya Personal Learning Edition (PLE). You can download this and learn Maya at home. The only problem is you cannot save Maya PLE project and load into Maya Complete at school. PLE is only good for practicing!
• Audio clips: Here is a site where you can get public domain audio clips. Take a look at the term of use, and remember to credit your source!
• PIXAR Stuff:
• Process: This is the process that PIXAR follows in creating their animated movies. We will follow some when appropriate.
• Shorts: Here are some clips to some of the famous PIXAR short animations. We will talk about these in class.

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Some Inspirations from the past:

• Here is a short 10-minute movie (64M) of what happened last time this course was offered (Spring 2004). You can expect something similar.  This class takes HUGE amount of time, but then, it is also HUGE amount of fun!

• Here is some background and introduction to this class.

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Kelvin Sung  |   Kelvin's Research Page  |   CSS Home  |   UW Bothell  |   UW Seattle

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