iat 241 Animation
Week 8 Page

 

Week 8 outline:

LECTURE
Advanced Animation
   Motion Capture
   Facial Animation
   Procedual Animation
   Performance Animation


STUDIO
for weeks 7 and 8
• Start or Continue from the Maya tutorials in the Maya Program under Help: Tutorials

     Watch the Animation Learning Movie

     Getting Started with Maya ---- GET FILES HERE
       Animation
          Lesson 1 Keyframing and the graph editor (required)
          Lesson 2 Set Driven Animation
          Lesson 3 Path animation (required)
          Lesson 5 Inverse Kinematics (or other tutorial if your are doing the Paint/EFX option)

• Learn to Batch rendering into Premiere ( for your final assignment port4)
          • Batch export .tga files to a file folder in your file space
          • Import these files into Adobe Premiere
          • Create a linear animation movie in Premiere
          • Export movie as 320 X 240 aspect ratio

Create and hand in your animation assignment Port 4 (due week9 on Tuesday)
• Choose which animation assignment Character or Paint/Effects    
         (see assignments page for details).
• If Paint/Effects then you should pick appropraite tutorials rather than those suggested

• Either way you will be make a 5-20 second movie which should be in .avi format with a DivX compression at 320x240. Your movie will only be judged for it's animation (how it moves) so render it small at 320x240 with DivX so the file size can be under 10Mb. You must as usually upload it to your site with any accompanying text under port 4. due week 9 on Tuesday


Due for next week's class :

• Your Port 4) Animation assignment is due by midnight Tuesday. It must be submitted via your published online portfolio.  (see above or your assignments page for details)

• Work with your team on planning your short.

• There are no assigned readings for this week.
Essay is due next week.