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
		Motiongrapher.com and a colorful video from Superfad Seattle
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

Class outline and schedule:
ARTS3604
ARTS5640
3D Animation, Spring 2010

Week 1	Jan. 25	Intro to the class, to animation, to 3D.  Maya demo.	The Bouncing Ball Assignment
Week 2	Feb. 1	Review: How to render. Project management, Cartesian Space, Rendering, Hypergraph, Outliner, Layers, Channel Box, Attribute Box Show and Tell; Bouncing Balls Intro to modeling with polygons Modeling a room assignment	Flaming(?), bouncing ball due. The 3D Room Assignment described.
Week 3	Feb. 8	Review; modeling with polygons Intro to modeling with NURBS Cameras, lights, materials
Week 4	Feb. 15	Review; modeling with NURBS Cameras, lights, materials, hypershade.
Week 5	Feb. 22	Critique of rooms Review; cameras, lights and materials--- hypershade. Animation, setting keys, working with graph editor Forward Kinematics and Animation assignment. Working with After Effects.	The 3D Room Assignment due. Kinematics Animation project described.
Week 6	March 1	Review; basic animation. Working with joints and bones. Blend Shapes. Rendering out file sequences for After Effects.
Week 7	March 8	Storyboards and Previz Review of joints and bones. Blend Shapes. Rendering out file sequences for After Effects. Particles and dynamics?	Project proposals due.	The proposals should be a Word, text or rtf file outlining the concept for your final. A paragraph or two should do it, although more detail will only help you.
Week 8	March 15	Spring Break – No classes	Relaxation due.
Week 9	March 22	1. Showing and critique of the Arm and Hand and Ball project. 2. What next? Creating an animatic/layout reel. 3. Feedback on storyboards and previz.	Kinematics Animation assignment due Raw materials, rough outline of project due	You should have any previsualization work done for your final. These include: Style sheets Storyboards Layout reels/Animatics
Week 10	March 29	Work day	Great Examples of Pre-Production work: Ian Worrel's Blog Cooked Art Heart of Stone	At this point, you should have an animatic/layout reel completed and ready to show.
Week 11	April 5	Critique	Rough Cut due
Week 12	April 12	Work day
Week 13	April 19	Critique	80% Done due
Week 14	April 26	Work day
Week 15	May 3	Work day
Week 16	May 10	Final Showing!		Have a nice summer!

updated: April 25, 2010