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Course Description
Techniques to manipulate digital imagery to
generate beautiful effects for movies and television have revolutionized the
film industry. Developers and artists using a computer as a digital
manipulation tool can now generate special effects to tell stories on projects
of various scales, ranging from very high budget films to low-budget independent
films to television movies to movie shorts from home video collections.
The Digital Video Special Effects class
(CS4480) offered this spring quarter is aimed at teaching the techniques that
are used to generate video special effects. This course is designed to allow
students to explore their creativity while extending their graphics and
programming skills. In this class we will undertake a detailed exploration
of the world of digital media as it applies to the generation of digital special
effects. Topics covered in this class include, digital representations of
audio and video, spatial and temporal aspects of video, digital compositing and
blending, merging graphics and raw video, and merging & morphing of
digital streams. Participants in class will be required to generate
special effects, critique and analyze effects from movies, develop skills and
abilities to manipulate digital video and audio, and implement their own
algorithms to express their technical and artistic skills.
Using off-the-shelf software for video
manipulation, combined with your own algorithms implemented for the class,
general ingenuity, and artistic skills, students will generate "video
shorts" that will show off their zany ideas in all their 32-bit
glory.
Topics
 | Introduction to New Paradigms |
| Representations of Digital Media |
| Computing Methodologies |
| Image Effects |
| Video Effects |
| Audio Effects |
| Spatial Techniques |
| Temporal Techniques |
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| Into the Picture |
| Merging Graphics with Video |
| Blending Multiple Streams |
| Video and Image Compositing |
| Morphing |
| Putting it together |
| 3D |
| Case Studies |
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Prerequisites
Grading
| Description |
What |
% |
Total of the Grade |
| Problem Sets. |
#1: Compositing |
14% |
28% |
| #2: Matched Moves |
14% |
| Critiques |
#1: |
8% |
16% |
| #2: |
8% |
| Final Project |
0: Proposal |
7% |
46% |
| 1: Mid Term Report |
6% |
| 2: Weekly Updates (3) |
9% |
3: Final Presentation
Internal Screening (8%)
Final Screening (8%) |
16% |
| 4: Final Report |
8% |
| Class Survey Submission |
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4% |
4% |
| Class Participation/Attendance |
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6% |
6% |
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100% |
Letter Grades to % (= "equals", > "greater then", < "less then")
| A+ |
=100 |
A |
>90 |
A- |
>80 |
B |
>70 |
C |
>60 |
D |
>50 |
F |
<50 |
Projects
| In groups of 3 (or 4). |
| Each member of the group should bring special expertise and contribution
to the project. |
| Group members need to be approved by Instructor (and TA). |
| Students can form (propose) their own groups. Submit an
application to the instructor, stating each group member's expertise and
tasks within a project. |
| If groups are not formed by students, then the Instructor/TA will help
with the assigning of members to groups. |
| Groups have to be finalized by EARLY.
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| A project proposal is needed (7%) |
| Mid Term project shows static effects and story-board (6%)
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| Final Project shown for internal Jury (8%)
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| Final Project shown for external Jury (8%)
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| Final Report (including details of individual contributions) (8%)
by Final Exam Slot. |
Policies
- Honor Code:
- Academic Honor Code instituted
by the Students of Georgia Tech applies in this class.
- Collaboration:
- The critiques HAVE TO BE DONE in a GROUP. If in COLLABORATION
with someone, please specify.
- Projects are in teams. Each member will need to justify
their contribution to the final project.
- Reports:
- All written material will be submitted electronically in HTML format and
will be put up on the WWW pages for this course. If for some reason you
object to this please see the instructor.
- Late Policy:
- There is none. Everything is due electronically the date assinged.
Nothing will be accepted after the deadline and the grade of "F"
will be assinged to that project.
Office Hours
By appointment. Please check Instructor/TA schedules and send e-mail:
| http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~irfan/schedule/ |
| Please DO NOT Call the instructor on the phone, unless it is a dire
emergency. Email is the primary communication mode with the instructor. USE
"DVFX" in the subject line to prevent
being filed into SPAM folder, |
WWW/Email
| Most of the class will extensively use the WWW. The schedule and
the lecture notes will be made available off the CLASS HOME page.
All reports and student submissions are required in WEB readable format.
Further information on that will be provided. |
| Email will be the primary form of communication after the class period.
Please make sure to inform the instructor of your permanent email address.
USE "DVFX" in the subject line to
prevent being filed into SPAM folder. |
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