IDS 252: Topics for the Week of February 21, 2011

• Lab:

  • Tuesday: Review work for Lab 5: Lighting, Shading, and Sound
  • Tuesday: Discuss and begin Lab 6: Collaboration and Character . Note, this is due next Thursday but please have some preliminary work to show on Tuesday.

• Gesture and Animation

  • A gesture is defined as "a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.
  • Garfield
  • Drawing examples
  • Caravaggio
  • In animation
  • Animator's Survival Kit
  • Books by Ed Hooks, e.g. Acting for Animators

• Text - Chapter 8: Continuity

  • Want to create seamless sequences. Cuts and transitions should make sense to the audience.
  • Do not want to cross Line of Action.
  • Using the Camera to Tell the Story

• Technical Topics on Materials/Shading, and Rendering

  • Graph editor revisited.
  • Maps
  • Bump Mapping
  • Anti-aliasing, Hypergraph