Professor Alan Price
aprice@accad.osu.edu
office hours: MW 11:00-12:00 by appointment

M 03.28 - W 03.20
Overview of Maya’s Dependency Graph Architecture
Accessing Attributes
class notes
First steps in script creation and exploring the Maya command set
makeRobotArm.mel and keyRobotArm.mel
Chapters 1 and 2 of MEL Scripting for Maya Animators
Assignment: Create a script that generates a new scene
(due M 04.04)

M 04.04 - W 04.06
Introduction to expressions - notes
Creating custom attributes
Creating connections between nodes
Randomness
Fun with Sin
Read chapter 3 (Chapter 4 is optional to understand more about expressions, but we will return to it when doing particles later in the quarter)
Read the Maya Online Reference > MEL and Expressions > Animation Expressions
Assignment: Create an expression-driven animated scene with custom attributes (due 4:00 M 04.11)

M 04.18- W 04.20
Procedures and Functions
Read chapter 10
Designing custom GUI's
Basic dialogs
Windows and Layouts
Controls
Read chapters 11 through 14 (13 and 14 most important)
Assignment: Create a script with GUI for interactively generating event(s)
(due 4:00 M 04.25)

M 05.02 - W 05.04
Expressions with particle systems and dynamic properties
Chapters 4, 16 and 17

M 05.09 - W 05.11
Experiments with flocking systems
chapter 18
Assignment: Create a script that generates and creates custom connections with dynamic properties or particles with expressions
(due W 05.18)

M 05.16 - W 05.18
M - Presentation
W - Project review

M 05.23- W 05.25
Final project proposals – Individual meetings
In-Class Work Time for Final Projects