Lecture Notes
The lecture notes for the last semester are below. You have to be in the university domain to access these materials.
| Week | Topic | Assignment |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 |
Principles
of Animation Technical Background Mathematical Background Orientations Keyframing |
RA1: Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation |
| 3 |
Interpolation Project Schedule |
RA2:
Animating rotation with quaternion curves and Practical Parameterization of Rotations |
| 4 | Path Following | RA3:
The cartoon animation filter IA1 out (optional): interpolation |
| 5 |
Deformations Shape Interpolation |
RA4: Fast Simulation of Skeleton-driven Deformable Body Characters |
| 6 | Semester break | |
| 7 | Hierarchical Linkages | Implementation Assignment 2 out (optional): inverse kinematics |
| 8 | Inverse Kinematics | RA5: Pose Space Deformation |
| 9 | Motion Capture | |
| 10 | Motion Editing -- Notes | RA6: Motion Graphs |
| 11 | Springs and Particle Systems -- Integration Methods | |
| 12 | Collisions -- Rigid Body Dynamics | |
| 13 | Project Demonstrations | |
| 14 | Topics in Animation | |
| 15 | Topics in Animation |