Administivia:

Organizer: Barbara Mones (mones@cs.washington.edu)
Time: Tuesday, Thursday 4:30 - 5:50
Place: MGH 234
Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Departments: Architecture, Art, Music, and CSE
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Overview:


The Animation Production Seminar is open to students from any area in the University who have an interest in digital animation. Short films ("shorts"), animated feature films, and television commercials will be reviewed and analyzed in depth. Emphasis will be placed on the technical and aesthetic basics of animation production in commercial studio environments. Practicing animators and other guests lecturers from the animation industry will present topics ranging from character development and performance to compositing and post production. 

 

Lecture Schedule

Date Lecture Topic Speaker Company
1/02 Meet in MGH 234  Mones --
1/04 Meet in MGH 234
1/09 458 Students Meet in Sieg 228 at 4:30
No 490 lecture today
1/11 "Free Will, Structure, and Narrative" Andrew Glassner Independent
1/16 458 Students Meet in Sieg 228 at 4:30
No 490 lecture today
1/18 Classical Animation from the 40's and 50's Giannalberto Bendazzi Independent
1/23 No Class 490 students
458 students meet in sieg 228		 N/A N/A
1/25 Cinematography for the design of short animated films Marty Oppenheimer N/A
1/30 No Class 490 students
458 students meet in sieg 228		 N/A N/A
2/1 Story Design Andrew Glassner Independent
2/6 Storyboard and Storyreel production N/A N/A
2/13 Storyboard and Storyreel production N/A N/A
2/15 Story Design Andrew Glassner Independent
2/20 Storyboard and Storyreel production N/A N/A
2/22 Storyboard and Storyreel production N/A N/A
2/27 Storyboard and Storyreel production N/A N/A
3/1 The Convergence of Classical and Digital Animation at Disney Isaac Kerlow Disney
3/13 Anecdotes of an Academic at Mainframe Entertainment David Fraccia Mainframe Entertainment, University of British Columbia
5/3 Synthetic Characters in the Real World Daniel Jeannette Industrial Light & Magic
5/17 3D Character Animation for the Web Leo Hourvitz Evangelism, Pulse3D

Links

Digital Character Animation - 490DC

Visual Effects Animation - 490VE

University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering

Microsoft Research

Industrial Light and Magic

University of Oregon

Pixar Animation Studios

Pacific Data Images

San Francisco State

Evergreen State College

University of Washington School of Music Computer Center

Grail

 

 


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