Professor Alan Price
aprice@accad.osu.edu
office hours: MW 10:30-12:30 by appointment

R 09.24 - Introduction
Use the online Maya help: Maya>Help>Learning Movies
mayauiscreenshot.jpg
crash intro to Maya interface
quick reference card for hotkeys
Animation fundamentals - key framing and playback
Simple bouncing ball

T 09.29 - R 10.01
Due R 10.01 - start of class - Sketches for Convoluted Contraption (project 1)
Hierarchical relationships / parenting and groups / pivot points / object and world space
Squash and Stretch / Ease in and Ease out / Anticipation
terms_of_expressive_motion.pdf
Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation by John Lasseter, Pixar
Editing animation curves in the Graph Editor
Maya online tutorials: Animation > Lesson 1: Keyframes and the Graph Editor
Door hinges / solar systems / Revisiting the bouncing ball
Bouncing Ball Exercise (select and animate only two types of ball - rigid and stretchy)
ball_trajectories.pdf
ball_trajectories.pdf
AnticipationFinal.mov

T 10.06 - R 10.08
Due T 10.06 - by end of class - Bouncing ball exercise (select and animate only two types of ball - rigid and stretchy)
Due R 10.08 - by end of class - Completed models for Convoluted Contraption (project 1)
Path animation
Non-linear deformers / Lattice deformer / Blend shapes
Previewing with Playblast and making movie files
RenderingInVectorMode.pdf

T 10.13 - R 10.15
Due T 10.13 - start of class - Completed animation for Convoluted Contraption (project 1)
Working with sound / the dope sheet

T 10.27 - R 10.29
Due T 10.27 - start of class - Completed animation for Music Concrete / Visual Music
Preparing a primitive person for bi-pedal perambulation
Joint deformers / Inverse Kinematics / simple character rigging

T 11.03 - R 11.05
Creating a walk sequence
human_locomotion_illustrations.pdf
Pose-to-pose animation / Animating in multiple passes
Video references for timing
Methods for character interacting with other objects in a scene

T 11.10 - R 11.12
Due R 11.12 - start of class - Playblast of productive primitive person perambulating &
Proposal presentations for final projects
Group responses to help form self-imposed exercise

T 11.17 - R 11.19
Demonstrations / Responses to individual projects / in-class production