Week 8: History of Animation / Adv. Animation

Here are links and discussion from this weeks class or related to the subjects we discussed in class.

Class Summary:

- Reading Discussion: Well's Chapter 1: Thinking About Animated Film
- History of Animation - Sara
- Intro to Advanced Animation
- Flip Book Hand-in
- Max Workshop: Animation

- History of Animation Links

Topics
- space, time, perspective
- motion paths, movement, composition
- pattern, repetition

Links:
Leonardo Da Vinci
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/

Persistence of Vision and Early Animation technologies http://www.west.net/~science/animate.htm

Muybridge
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/anima/chronoph/muybridge/index.htm

Marey
http://access.tucson.org/~michael/ejm_2.html

- Intro to Advanced Animation Links

Max Character Animation

Max Facial Animation using Morphing

Function Curves

Using Expressions for Animation