Syllabus	Things to remember when Opening MAYA	U of MN Animation Home Page
Class Outline	CG Production Workflow from Isaac Victor Kerlow	Links
Recommended Texts	High End 3D	John Lasseter's Principles of Animation
Assignments	Getting Started in Maya with Tutorialized.com	A pdf of MAYA HOTKEYS
Assessment	A pdf of selected pages from the Help files	Video Copilot.net tutorials for After Effects
		After Effects tutorial at the Adobe web site

Animation Assignments and projects.

Bouncing Ball	Modeling a 3D Room	Kinematics and Animation
Large Project	Written Proposal	Storyboards and Pre-Viz	Animatic	Rough Cut	80%

Project three;

Basic Animation using Forward and Inverse Kinematics

The purpose of this project is to introduce us to the basic technology of animating in Maya, and to begin to translate the fundamental principles of animation into 3D. 

There are two paths that you may choose from for this project.

Path 01 focuses on forward kinematics, the controlling of a hierarchy from the top, or parent, down to the child.

If you think of a robot arm that moves the position of it's hand by first rotating its' shoulder, then its' elbow, then its' wrist.... that's forward kinematics.

Path 02 focuses on inverse kinematics, controlling position of a system with the position of the child of the hierarchy.

For this imagine a puppet moves forward as you move his feet in steps. The whole body will follow the feet, even though the whole body is really controlled by the hips.

There are four levels for success in this.  Everyone must accomplish at least the first level.  After that, you can go as high as you want with this, even beyond level four.

These should all be rendered out as a Quicklime movie, 800X600, using the DV/DVC-Pro NTSC compressor. 
I would strongly recommend to render them as a sequence of tiff or tga files, and then import them into After Effects to composite them into a movie. 

This will be due the Monday after Spring Break, (March 22nd).