IDS 252: Topics for the Week of September 22, 2008

• Meeting with musicians: Thursday Oct 2 at 6:45pm. Some of you may have to come late or leave early.

• Lab:

  • On Tuesday, review student work for Lab 3: Conveying Mood using Lighting, Shading & Camera.
  • Discuss and begin Lab 4: Music and Animation.
    Note, if you want to use the bloke character, the file bloke_v2.3.ma is on enfuzion in the \IDS252Fa08\Lab4 folder. Please copy it over to your own folder before using!

• Maya Topics

  • Importing sound
  • Animation and Keyframing
  • Graph Editor

• Adobe Premiere Elements: Creating a Quicktime video from frames and sound.

• General Discussion

  • Principles of Animation
    • Principles of Animation.
    • John Lasseter's orginal article with Luxo Jr as example.
  • Bouncing Ball
    • Larry's Toon Institute
    • Amazing Kids
  • Look at Poly's World on \\home\classes or go to Polly's World.
  • Establishing Timing
    • Examine real life.
    • Story Boarding and Story Reels
  • Anti-aliasing, Hypergraph

• Animation Examples:

  • Andre and Wally B
  • Scrat