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Course Overview
CSE 459 focuses on the
pre-production of collaboratively designed animated shorts. Students from
Architecture, Art, Music, and Computer Science will study all styles of
animation. The course will include in-depth analysis of both classical
and computer generated works. Topics include: character design and
pre-planning; design of model sheets; character rigging; character motion in
action and acting; design for multiple characters; and principles of
animation as applied to character motion and effects
Prerequisites
CSE
457 –
Computer Graphics - Introduction to
computer image synthesis, modeling, and animation. Topics include visual
perception, color theory, displays and framebuffers, image processing, affine
and projective transformations, hierarchical modeling, hidden surface
elimination, shading, ray-tracing, anti-aliasing, texture mapping, curves,
surfaces, particle systems, dynamics, realistic character animation, and
traditional animation principles.
CSE 458 – Computer Animation - introduction to
basic animation principles, such as modeling, shading, lighting and motion,
of computer generated animation.
Projects
See Schedule.
Course Participation
I'd like
this to be an interactive class. Interaction with the instructor and the TAs
in class and during office hours is highly encouraged.
"Appropriate" interaction with each other, say through the class
mail list, is also encouraged.
Exams
There
will no midterm or final for this class.
However, there will be a final critique on your final project that
will take place during the two hours designated for this class’s “finals”.
Grades
Grades
will be assigned as follows:
- Projects: 60%
- Production work and
Collaborative Abilities: 40%
Policies
- Late Policy: unless otherwise indicated,
assignments and projects are due by the end of the due date at 12
midnight. If you hand in an assignment late, we will take off 10% for
each day (or portion thereof) it is late. So, if an assignment is due on
Jan 8, it must be in the turnin folder by 12:00am on that day.
- Cheating vs. Collaboration: Let me just state up front
that this is an unresolvable issue. Collaboration, as an aid to learning,
is highly encouraged. Cheating is just as highly discouraged.
The
university more or less requires that each course present you (students) with
a clear definition of unacceptable behavior. Here it is for this course:
cheating is any effort made to earn points without actually doing the work
those points represent or understanding the material to the degree those
points indicate. Not cheating is anything you do that helps you understand
the course material (not just the solution to a single problem, but the
underlying information on which the solution
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