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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.
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’ “finals”.
Grades
Grades
will be assigned as follows:
Projects 1-4: 7%
each (Project 3 worth 14%)
Criteria:
Project 1, Rigging: Technical, Aesthetic, Realism
Project 2, Poses: Technical, Aesthetic, Realism/Creativity
Project 3a & b, Motion:
Weight, Balance, Timing, Creativity
Project 3b, Lip Sync: Technical, Aesthetic, Realism/Creativity
Project 4, Lighting (Orange): Lights, Shadows, Match
Project 5: 15%
Criteria:
Lighting: Lights, Shadows, Match/Creativity(Character portion)
Motion: Weight, Balance, Timing, Creativity, Acting
- Production work and
Collaborative Abilities: 50%
Group Contribution:
25%
Criteria: Leadership,
Collaboration, Setting and meeting production deadlines, Production meeting
contributions, Group reports
Individual
Contribution: 25%
Criteria: Work completed, Meeting production deadlines, Work with
TA’s and director
- Extra Credit Opportunities
Compositing: up to
3%
Criteria: Technical, Aesthetic,
Match
Dynamics: up to 5%
Criteria: Technical,
Aesthetic, Creativity
Policies
Late 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 followthe
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.
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