weekly projects
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week 1
bouncing ball
lighting set up, shading review
start storyboards
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week 2
begin walkCycle: lowerBody -
week 3
Complete walkCycle:animating the upperBody
moving forward, turning redirection
audio files due next class.
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week 4
students pitch independent projects and storyboards
begin independent project
audio files due
shoot 1st take of reference footage
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week 5
norman modification tutorials
shoot second take of reference footage
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week 6
facial animation, working with audio files in maya
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week 7
animation Layers -
week 8
animating with the parent constraint -
week 9
lattice_deformers
nonLinear_deformers -
week 10
particles
effects, fire, lightning -
week 11
fk/ik switching
animating along a path
maya render settings
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week 12
fine tuning
review after effect importing and exporting
advanced camera operations
creating a turntable animation
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week 13
credits -
week 14
complete independent project
final touches
review final output work flow -
week 15
final projects due on dvd