iat 241 Animation
Week 1 Page

 

Week 1 outline:

LECTURE
• course overview - assignments and grading
• course breakdown - lectures/labs and online/offline
• basics of animation
• screening: animation shorts by past sfu animation students
• screening: 3D animation - Bingo by Chris Landreth - Geri's Game by Pixar
LECTURE NOTES - Lecture1


STUDIO
<Studio lab usually consists of TA demos followed by hands-on Maya and assignment work>
<Please follow the instructions of your TA for specific info>

For the first week of Studio Lab:
• view Maya learning movies 1 through 5
• explore the Maya interface
• do the following Maya tutorials in the Maya Program under Help: Tutorials
     Getting Started with Maya
            Maya Basics
• if time permits start the next tutorial
     Getting Started with Maya
            Polygon Modeling
• Save your completed tutorials
    and all assignments for your on-line portfolio
• begin the Port 1) Composition assignment
    (see Assignments link for details)


Due for next week's class :

• Read (and discuss in class or online in the webx readings forum)
Online Paper: Motion Perception in Movies and Painting: Towards a New Kinetic Art
by Michael Betancourt
- See readings page for additional material .

• Create your online portfolio for use in upcoming weeks.
- See assignments page for how create online portfolio.

• You must pick your animation short team in next weeks class
- Start networking now (in class and on webX)
- See assignments page for animation short details.