If you’re curious about what happened in this class in the past, you could go poking through the old course webs. But here’s a table of the topics discussed. It’s not that more recent classes covered more topics: its just that my notes are less clear (and in older classes, we used more classes for presentations and "activitities".
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2011 |
2006 |
2004 |
| Welcome | Org | cartoons |
| Rotations/Transforms | History of Film Animation | principles |
| Rotations/Seminal | What’s Interesting | animation systems |
| Animation History | Principles | art critiques |
| Human Motion Overview | Historical Systems | rotations 1 |
| Motion Capture | Rotations | rotations 2 |
| Motion Signal Processing | Rotations/Kinematics | screening |
| Motion Representation/IK | IK | IK |
| Motion Editing | Mocap Intro | Human Motion |
| Motion Graphs | Projects | Animation from observation |
| Motion Synthesis | Motion Editing | Mocap Processing |
| Motion Synthesis | Motion Blending | Puppetry |
| Hard Papers | Parametric Synthesis | Editing 1 |
| Hard Papers | Mographs | Editing 2 |
| Skinning | More Mographs | Mographs |
| Skinning | Puppetry | Physics |
| Skinning & Deformations | Mocap Physics | Implicit Integration |
| Kalmann Filters | Skinning (skinning mesh animations) | Cloth |
| Cages | physics 101 | More Physics |
| Video Production | physics 101+ | Constraints |
| Giving a Talk | cloth | Control&Spacetime |
| Film (cinematography) | fluids | Geometry |
| Film (editing and continuity) | collisions | Skinning |
| Physics Basics | crowds & flocking | Filmmaking |
| Perry | warp & morph | Filmmaking |
| Eftychios | spacetime and control | |
| Summary Day |
