IART219220221 Animation Introduction

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IART-219/220/221AnimationIntroduction

• ? Course Outline
• ? Evaluation
• ? Developments and Techniques

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Course Outline, 1-2

• 1- Introduction
• Basic concepts and techniques
• Historical view
• 2- Object visualization
• Visual thinking
• Hand and digital drawing
• 3D spaces and transformations

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Course Outline, 3-4

• 3- Storytelling
• Motion
• Storyboard
• Animatics and Leica Reels
• 4- Production process
• Team and resources
• Development
• Post-production

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Course Outline, 5

• 5- Critique
• Share ideas and get feedback
• Audience, genre, and socio-cultural aspects
• Brief intro to rendering
• Color
• Material
• Lighting
• Camera

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Course Outline, 6-8

• 6,7,8- Animation
• Principles
• Persistence of vision
• Path and keyframing
• Narrative strategies
• Techniques
• 2D and 3D
• Traditional and CGI
• Experimental and orthodox

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Course Outline, 9-11

• 9- Movement
• Body and bone modeling
• Motion capture and dynamics
• Inverse kinematics
• 10,11- Characters
• Face, expression and anthropomorphism
• 2D and 3D face modeling
• Industry standards

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Course Outline, 12-15

• 12- Interactive Animation
• Non-linear animation and games
• Flash and new media
• 13- Advanced topics
• Effects
• Image retouching and output
• 14,15- Presentation and screening

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Evaluation

• On-line Portfolio - 28
• due week 9
• Essay - 12
• due week 11, paper format
• Final Project - 40
• due week 15, CD format
• Storyboard week 6, paper format
• Leica reel week 8, CD format
• Participation - 20

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What is Animation?

• Art of movement
• Sequence of still images
• From the turn of 19th century
• Flexibility to create content not available in
  live recording
• Fuzzy boundaries
• Visual effects

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Animation Techniques

• Cameraless Animation
• Thaumatrope
• Phenakistoscope
• Zoetrope and Praxinosope
• Flip-book
• Cameraless films
• Cutout Animation

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Animation Techniques

• Kinestasis and Collage
• Sand and Paint-on-Glass
• Clay, Puppet, and Stop-motion
• Motion Graphics
• Line and Cel Animation
• Computer Animation

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Technology Development

• Computer evolution
• Mainframes
• Minicomputers and workstations
• Personal computers
• Super computers
• 1950s and 1960s
• Early graphics
• CADCAM systems

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Technology Development

• 1970s
• Hardware advances
• Graphics algorithms
• Image processing
• Shading
• 3D modeling and polygons
• Z-buffering and texture mapping
• Facial animation

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Technology Development

• 1980s
• PC revolution started
• 64-bit 50 MHz systems
• Silicon Graphics (Geometry Engine)
• Pixar (RenderMan)
• Early 1990s
• Smaller yet more powerful systems

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Technology Development

• Late 1990s
• Windows NT and Linux
• 500 MHz systems
• Digital video
• 3D Computer games and platform games
• Advanced 3D modeling and animation software

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Visual Milestones

• Disney studios
• Cel animation
• Computer generated animation in early 60s
• Mr. Computer Image ABC with Scanimate
• 1970s
• Voyager 2 by JPL (James Blinn)
• Star Wars by ILM (George Lucas)

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Visual Milestones

• 1980s
• Disney TRON combined live action with 3D computer
  animation
• Atari and video games
• Visual effects, Star Wars
• Genesis Effect in Star Trek II by ILM
• Pixar RenderMan
• Little Mermaid (89) the last traditional film

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Geris Game by RenderMan
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Visual Milestones

• Early 1990s
• Terminator II (91) by ILM
• 1st to include morphing and human simulation
• Jurassic Park (93) by ILM
• Babylon 5 (93)
• 1st 3D animation, made by Amiga and Mac
• Cocacola Polar Bear (93) commercial
• Disney CAPS, Lion King

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Coca-cola Polar Bear
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Visual Milestones

• Late 1990s
• Toy Story (95)
• 1st computer generated feature film
• DreamWorks vs. Disney/Pixar
• Antz, Prince of Egypt
• Bugs Life, Mulan, Toy Story 2
• Fantasia 2000 for IMAX
• Armagedon (98)

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Future
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Future

• 3D animation
• Final Fantasy and Matrix
• Experimental animation
• Ideas and possibilities
• Traditional methods
• Digital is not everything!