IDS 252: Topics for the Week of September 17, 2007

• Monday: Continue looking at your Lab 2 compositions.

• Wednesday: Turn in your 10 second animation: Lab 3: Introduction to Animation

  • In class/lab, we will evaluate the animations.

• Discuss the next lab - Lab 4: Animation and Music

  • In class/lab, listen and react to music.

• Maya Topics - Animation

  • Working with Music - Maya and Adobe Premiere
  • Animating the Camera
    • Look at Yale Film Studies. Follow links to Cinematography - Framing, Scale, Movement
    • Using the Camera to Tell the Story
  • Path Animation
  • Deformers

• Continued from last week:

  • Look at examples of
    • Story Boarding
    • Story Reels
  • Principles of Animation
    • Principles of Animation.
    • John Lasseter's orginal article with Luxo Jr as example.
  • Poly's World on \\home\classes or go to Polly's World.