Readings 4: Motion Capture Overview

by Mike Gleicher February 4, 2011 News

On Monday, February 7th, we’ll talk about motion capture as a lead in to working on Synthesis-by-Example methods. As I’ve mentioned on the Mocap Readings Page, I don’t have good readings for this. So instead, I’m going to ask you to read some less good ones. For class, you need to read 2 things: a […]

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Motion Capture Readings

by Mike Gleicher February 3, 2011 Readings

This is a big long file with lots of ideas in it – specific readings will probably get clipped out of this. If you notice, I have no good readings for the basic stuff. Back in 2000, I started to write a book, but I didn’t get very far. No one else did it either. […]

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Project 1

by Mike Gleicher February 3, 2011 News

Tomorrow (Friday, Feb 4), we’ll talk about project 1 in class. Some initial info on it is on the Project 1 Posting. You will be assigned to groups. Tentatively, the grouping are: Andrist,Sean; Ghosh,Subhadip; Watkins,Leslie ; Gallege,Sajika Albers,Danielle ; Mitchell,Nathan ; Crowell,Daniel ; Guild,David Correll,Michael ; Mayorga,Adrian; Bartholomew,Aaron ; Sawtell,Reid Bala,Raja; Hill,James; Verma,Chaman Singh; Zhang,Xiao […]

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Project 1–Initial Specification

by Mike Gleicher February 2, 2011 Assignments

This project aims to get you to work with human motion / motion capture data. The project roughly splits in half over the 6 weeks: the first half, you’ll work to develop the infrastructure for working with motion data, and the second half, you’ll do something more interesting with the data. You will be assigned […]

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What to do with a snow day…

by Mike Gleicher February 2, 2011 News

As many of you have already observed, canceled classes provide a great opportunity to watch extra cartoons. (I think this was my dream as a kid – having school canceled and getting to watch cartoons – of course, back in the 70s, daytime TV wasn’t so kid friendly, so the reality wasn’t as great). But […]

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Class Cancelled, for Weds Feb 2

by Mike Gleicher February 1, 2011 News

The University has canceled classes (and most other things) for Wednesday, February 2. So this is a good time for you to get your Reading Assignment 3 done, participate in some of the discussions in the comments (there are some interesting things!), and maybe watch some more cartoons!

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Evolution of Animated Movie Posters

by Subhadip Ghosh February 1, 2011 Other Stuff

An interesting read on how the animated movie posters have evolved since the early days of 1930. Click on the image!

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Cool road runner animations

by Adrian Mayorga February 1, 2011 Other Stuff

I’m not sure if you guys have looked at these, but I felt it would be appropriate to share given our discussions about origins and principles of animation. Check them out http://vimeo.com/18545356 http://vimeo.com/18546611

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Raja’s Game Jam Game

by raja January 31, 2011 Other Stuff

Skybox collosseum setting, 3D barbarian and enemy bucket head models, blood splatter created using transparent/diffuse shading with materials created via brushes. Made in Unity3d.

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A Post for Assignment 2B

by Mike Gleicher January 31, 2011 Assignment 2B

This is where students will put posts that include their animations. We’ll need to work out the posting movies issues, so check this post (or this category) for details. In your posting make sure to have a single frame (a “teaser” image) so people can get a sense of you movie without having to download […]

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