C S 4848 Computer Animation Programming

• Syllabus
• Assignments

• Clouds powerpoint
• Dobayashi etal movie 1996
• Nishita etal movie 2000
• Dobayashi etal movie 2001

Related info

• Particle Systems
• Craig Reynolds: Boids, Behaviors, Steering.
• John Lasseter (PIXAR) on applying traditional animation techniques
• Jim Blinn's Animation Tricks

• Synthesis of Complex Dynamic Character Motion from Simple Animations
• Animation examples from Univ of Toronto
• Virtual Cinematographer
• Quaternion Interpolation
• Expression Cloning (facial mocap)
• Fracture
• Anatomy-Based Modeling of the Human Musculature
• fluid animation

Code, etc.

• cloth anim using mass-spring model
• examples of mipmaps and environment mapping
• Gimbal lock example
• wierd lighting example (rotation??)
• Redbook examples
• Blender
• www.opengl.org
• CS 4840 (more OpenGL info)
• mpeg_encode
• Some VRML 2.0 examples

Past Student Projects

• MPEG animations from Winter 94
• MPEG animations from Spring 93