CSE 459 - Pre-PRODUCTION FOR COLLABORATIVE ANIMATION - WINTER 2004
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. Lectures TTh 10:30 – 12:30 Sieg 332/329 Barbara Mones, Instructor mones@cs.washington.edu TA office hours: Ernest Wu, TA erniewu@yahoo.com Monday: 12:00pm - 2:00pm (2 hrs) Tuesday: 6:00pm - 9:00pm (3 hrs) Wednesday: 12:00pm - 2:00pm (2 hrs) Thursday: 6:00pm - 9:00pm (3 hrs) Ginturn Tran, TA tengtran@u.washington.edu Monday: 9:30am - 11:30am (2 hrs) Wednesday: 9:30am - 11:30am (2 hrs) 6:30pm - 9:30pm (3 hrs) Friday: 9:30am - 12:30pm (3 hrs) Brendan Condit, TA brendancondit@yahoo.com Monday: 2:00pm - 5:00pm (3 hrs) Wednesday: 2:00pm - 7:00pm (5 hrs) Thursday: 4:00pm - 6:00pm (2 hrs) [no office hours on Saturday and Sunday] NOTE: MAYA files should be viewed with the monitor ratio at 1.33 --- 1024x768, 1200x960, 1600x1200, etc.
	Winter Pre-Production	· Storyreel [ video clip : 25MB ] · Animatics reel [ Quicktime : 270MB ] · Character Concept Art Galleries 1. Apprentice 2. Master 3. Customer Character Descriptions/Documents 1. Apprentice 2. Master · Look and Feel 1. by Dean Halford [ Gallery ] [ Video 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ] 2. by Chris Scoville [ Powerpoint ] [ Video 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
	administrivia	· Announcements! personnel syllabus schedule cse459 mailing list Archive cse458 mailing list Archive Title for this year mouse traps Arrchive to animatics, story, modeling, 3Dpaint, and concept art.
		Pre-Production groups Contracts Production Leads Tutorials Modeling Assignments scale sheet (sample) sequence list (sample) model sheets (sample) Prop list
	projects	Project 1 - poses Project 2 - rigging Project 3a – animation 1 ( 3 – 4 ) Project 3b – animation 2 ( 5 – 6 ) download Earl for Lipsync Project 3c Project 4 – Orange (Extra Credit) Project 5 – Advanced Lighting - Bedroom – Compositing [Download Zip here] – Dynamics
	reference	Horn reference Painting on Glass Busy at work Art Work Misc. Pieces Video 1, 2, 3, 4 Another link
	help	mental ray tutorial animation check list mel script index page head modeling techniques working with function curves more tutorials
	etc	RSI information animation web pages link to CSE458 Computer Animation link to Visual Effects Page reference material (sample) written 7-step story (sample) crow reference
	more videos	link reference video winter 2002 (TFT) link to story reel winter 2002 (TFT) link to story reel winter 2003 (crows~1.4GB)

Yellow Blob Production - University of Washington, Seattle - 2004