CSE 458 Grading Guidelines

Grades are broken down as follows:

• 9% Project 1 - Basic and Hand Modeling
  
  Individual project criteria:
  • Following instructions
  • Resemblence to reference
  • Good mesh topology
  • Clean outliner
• 9% Project 2 - Head Modeling
  
  Individual project criteria:
  • Following instructions
  • Resemblence to reference
  • Good mesh topology
  • Clean outliner
• 9% Project 3 - Shading
  
  Individual project criteria:
  • Following instructions
  • All objects shaded in a believable manner
  • Creativity, aesthetics
  • Good UV topology
  • Clean outliner
• 9% Project 4 - Lighting
  
  Individual project criteria:
  • Following instructions
  • Creativity, aesthetics
  • Clean outliner
• 9% Project 5 - Rigging
  
  Individual project criteria:
  • Following instructions
  • Functional, "clean" rigs (e.g. proper channels locked and hidden)
  • Good weight painting
  • Clean outliner
• 9% Project 6 - Posing and Bouncing Ball
  
  Individual project criteria:
  • Following instructions
  • Silhouette, weight, line of action
  • Presence of animation principles
  • Readability of planning sheets
  • Creativity, aesthetics
• 9% Project 7 - Mouse Animation and Production Pipeline
  
  Individual project criteria:
  • Following instructions
  • Silhouette, weight, line of action
  • Presence of animation principles
  • Creativity, aesthetics
  • Correct application of the pipeline
• 32% Signature Shots
  
  Group project criteria:
  • Technical
  • Creativity
  • Aesthetic/Composition
  • Group Participation
• 5% Critique Analysis/Attendance

Grading Criteria for all work:

Professionalism (Participation and Collaboration)

• Ability to work in your group as both a leader in your area of expertise and productive team member to your group as a whole.
• Ability to receive and apply feedback from the Instructor and from the TA's.
• Ability to respond to communication from TA's and Instructor promptly and respectfully.
• Ability to be a positive influence on the class and the project. Where direction seems inconsistent or unclear, to have the ability to bring the discrepancy to TA and Instructor for discussion in office hours if needed.
• Ability to maintain a positive attitude and creative approach toward the project.
• Ability to follow through on work that has been assigned including meeting assigned deadlines.
• Ability to make constructive suggestions by doing the work assigned and providing alternate technical and aesthetic solutions when needed. Ability to communicate positively and constructively and to resolve concerns quickly and effectively.
• Ability to provide appropriate and creative contributions to all aspects of the production.
• Ability to provide constructive and proactive approaches to problem solving during class meetings in support of the goals in the agenda.
• Ability to work collaboratively to reach a common goal and vision including the ability to be flexible and fill in for a fellow student who needs help.
• Ability to find someone to fill in if an emergency keeps you from finishing your work on time.

Production (Quality of Individual Work)

• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to organize your time and apply your skills.
• Ability to complete assigned shots.
• Ability to take on production tasks and to complete them.
• Ability and willingness to take on extra work and do the job, especially contributions are made near the end of a production.
• Ability to behave appropriately on your team.
• Ability to effectively and efficiently lead the areas been assigned.
• To provide weekly reports covering your leadership in your group and your support of other group members or the group as a whole.
• To fill out and submit all self-critiques covering your assessment of how you have functioned in the class as well as all requested critique analysis worksheets that assess how you feel about the work you produced individually and as part of a group.

Late work policy:

It is assumed that your work will be on time.  Incomplete work will be turned in on time so that it can be evaluated with everyone else. Under some rare and extenuating circumstances, the staff may decide to grade revised projects.  Under these circumstances, we will follow the following procedure: There will be a 0.5 deduction every day the project is late.  After three days, it will up to the staff to decide whether or not the project will be graded. The breakdown is subject to change as a whole and adjustable on a per-student basis in exceptional cases.