Schedule

Instructor: Irfan Essa TSRB 230A. Office Hours: After Class		Location: CoCB 102
TA: Justin Jang Office Hours: Monday 1-2p, Wednesday 4-5p in CoCB 104a (DML)		Day/Time: Tuesdays - Thursdays 4:35pm-5:55pm

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Wk	Day Date	Topic / Readings / Slides	Slides / Additional Material
1	Tuesday 8/17	Introduction / Administrivia "Making 'em MOVE!" slides/01/01_Intro.pdf	Show: PIXAR's Tin Toy (1996), Show: Dreamworks/PDI's "Tech of Shrek" (2001)
	Thursday 8/19	Illusions of Life. Overview of Animation Techniques Read: Parent Chapter 1 slides/02/02_AnimPrinciples.pdf	Show: Tarzan DVD Show: PIXAR's Toy Story Supplemental Material DVD Cartoon Laws of Physics http://www.freetoon.com/ Illusions of Life: Disney Animation Thomas and Johnston pp15-44 Comet-Cartoons SIGGRAPH (Animation HyperGraph) Webreference John Lasseter, "Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation", Computer Graphics, pp. 35-44, 21:4, July 1987 [pdf]
2	Tuesday 8/24	History of Animation Read: Parent Chapter 1 slides/03/03_AnimHistory.pdf	Dan McLaughlin, http://animation.filmtv.ucla.edu/program/anihist.html Richard LLewellyn, http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rllew/chronint.html Minneaopolis Institute of Arts, http://www.privatelessons.net/2d/sample/m01_02.html Ken Baer, http://www.hash.com/lectures/histanim/page1.html Animazing Gallery, http://shopping.animazing.com/gallery/timeline.htm
	Thursday 8/26	Reality of Math Read: Parent Chapter 2, Appendix B, Eberly Chapter 2 & 3 slides/04/04_Math.pdf
3	Tuesday 8/31	Maya Tutorial Meet in CoCB 104 (DML) Clint Hidinger Spencer Reynolds slides/05/05_MayaTut.txt slides/RequestforHelpwithMAYA.txt	For MAYA help, see www.highend.com and www.cgtalk.com
	Thursday 9/2	Key Frames & Interpolation Read: Parent Chapter 3 (3.1-3.6), Appendix B, Eberly Chapter 2 slides/06/06_Keyframing.pdf
4	Tuesday 9/7	Interpolating Rotations Read: Parent 3.1-3.6, Eberly 7.1-7.3 & 9.1 slides/07/07_Quaternions.pdf	Shoemake, "Animating Rotations with Quaternions" SIGGRAPH 85. [pdf] Buss and Fillmore, "Spherical averages and applications to spherical splines and interpolation" TOG01 Volume 20 Issue 2. [pdf] Video: Tin Toy (Pixar Shorts) Simplistic Pictures
	Thursday 9/9	Articulated Figures: Motion Capture I Read: Parent 6.7 slides/08/08_MoCap.pdf	Videos Excerpts from Disney's Snow White DVD II Michael Jackson Ghost Video Mummy Videos Process The Process of Motion Capture- Dealing with the Data Companies www.vicon.com www.motionanalysis.com www.giantstudios.com www.locomotion.com www.peakperform.com www.moves.com www.biomechanics-inc.com
5	Tuesday 9/14	Articulated Figures: Kinematics Read: Parent 4.1-4.3, slides/09/09_Kinematics.pdf	Papers: Girard and Maciejewski “Computational modeling for the computer animation of legged figures” SIGGRAPH 1985 (ACM) (PDF) Zhao , Badler, "Inverse kinematics positioning using nonlinear programming for highly articulated figures", TOG, 1994 (ACM) (PDF) Other sites: physmod95 (Grassia, CMU) www.martinb.com ik.html (IKAN, UPenn) http://hms.upenn.edu/ (U Penn) jack.html (Jack, UPenn) http://www.curiouslabs.com (Poser) humanMotion.html (Hodgins, GA Tech)
	Thursday 9/16	Motion Capture: (VISIT MoCap LAB in GCATT)	Spencer Reynolds & Justin Jang
6	Tuesday 9/21	Motion Editing I slides/10/MC_Editting_1.pdf	Bodenheimer, B., Rose, C., Rosenthal, S., and Pella, J., ``The Process of Motion Capture: Dealing with the Data'', Computer Animation and Simulation '97, [PDF] Gleicher. "Motion Path Editing". Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics. March 2001. [PDF]. Witkin , Popovic, Motion warping, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, p.105-108, September 1995 [PDF] [WebSite]
	Thursday 9/23	Honda ASIMO Presentation Ferst Center for the Arts Georgia Institute of Technology 349 Ferst Drive, NW Atlanta, GA 30332-0468
7	Tuesday 9/28	Lab Session (lecture cancelled!) Spencer Reynolds in Lab
	Thursday 9/30	Motion Editing II Guest Lecture by Professor Jim Rehg Slides (slides/13/JimRehg.pdf) Kevin Quennesson's slides on "Verbs ..." (slides/13/KevinQ0924200.pdf) Other Material research.html (Popivic, MIT) MotionEditing (Gleicher, Wisc) ik.htm (Elias) www.martinb.com/threed/animation/ (Baker) zoran/sigg99, zoran/warpage/	Bunderlin , Williams, "Motion signal processing," SIGGRAPH 1995 [PDF] Rose, C., Guenter, B., Bodenheimer, B., and Cohen, M., "Efficient Generation of Motion Transitions Using Spacetime Constraints'', SIGGRAPH 96 [PDF] Rose, C., Cohen, M., and Bodenheimer, B., "Verbs and Adverbs: Multidimensional Motion Interpolation'', IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, v. 18, no. 5, Sept. 1998, pp. 32-40. [PDF] (Quennesson, Kevin)
8	Tuesday 10/5	Motion Retargetting Johny Franslay's Slides on "Retargeting .." (slides/14/Franslay.pdf)	Gleicher. "Motion Editing with Spacetime Constraints." Proceedings of the 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics. 1997 [PDF] Gleicher. Retargetting Motion to New Characters. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98. [PDF] (Franslay, Johny)
	Thursday 10/7	Motion Graphs Brandon Yarbrough's Slides (slides/15/BYSlides.pdf)	Kovar , Gleicher , Pighin, "Motion Graphs" SIGGRAPH 2002 July 2002 [PDF] [WebSite] Lee , Chai , Reitsma , Hodgins , Pollard, "Interactive control of avatars animated with human motion data," ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.21 n.3, July 2002 [PDF] [ACM] [WebSite] (Yarbrough, Brandon)
9	Tuesday 10/12	Motion Textures Ahren Noga's Slides (slides/16/NOGAPaperPres2.pdf)	Pullen and Bregler, "Motion Capture Assisted Animation: Texturing and Synthesis", SIGGRAPH 2002 July 2002 [PDF][WebSite] Arikan and Forsyth, Interactive motion generation from examples, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.21 n.3, July 2002 [WebSite] [PDF] [video] [Noga, Ahren] 3rd Paper moved to later in the term on "Goal Driven Animation"
	Thursday 10/14	Video Textures Nipun Kwatra's slides (PDF)	Arno Schödl, Richard Szeliski, David H. Salesin, and Irfan Essa. Video textures. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2000, pages 489-498, July 2000. Arno Schödl, Irfan Essa. Controlled Animation of Video Sprites. In Proceedings of the First ACM Symposium on Computer Animation (held in Conjunction with ACM SIGGRAPH [Kwatra, Nipun]
10	Tuesday 10/19	FALL BREAK	NO CLASS
	Thursday 10/21	Being Flexible Read: Parent 3.7-3.10, 4.4 Final Projects Discussion. Integration Methods and Deformable Models	Demetri Terzopoulos , John Platt , Alan Barr , Kurt Fleischer, Elastically deformable models, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.21 n.4, p.205-214, July 1987 [PDF] J. C. Platt , A. H. Barr, Constraint methods for flexible models, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics, p.279-288, August 01-05, 1988, Atlanta, Georgia, United States [PDF] Cooking with Kurt. (animation) 1987, Also with Fleischer, Kass, and Terzopoulos. Vision, graphics, and vegetables. mpeg (80K).
11	Tuesday 10/26	Particle Systems Read: Parent 4.5, 5.2, 5.3 Ron Metoyer's Slides [PPT\|PDF]	Karl Sims, Particle animation and rendering using data parallel computation, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.24 n.4, p.405-413, Aug. 1990. [PDF] Karl Sims, Particle Dreams [Info \| MOV] Karl Sims, Panspermia [Info] SIGGRAPH HyperGraph "Particle Systems" MASSIVE, Lord of the Rings
	Thursday 10/28	Spacetime Constraints Grant Gruetzmacher's slides	Witkin & Kass, "Spacetime Constraints" . ACM SIGGRAPH 1988, [PDF, mpeg (70K)] Cohen, "Interactive spacetime control for animation", SIGGRAPH 1992. [PDF\|ACM][Grant Gruetzmacher] Definitions http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ B-Spline.html Jacobian.html Hessian.html NewtonsMethod.html LagrangeMultiplier.html ConjugateGradientMethod.html Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) SQP from Mathworks.COM
12	Tuesday 11/2	Simulation I: Physics Physically Based Modeling: Principles and Practice, (Witkin and Baraff SIGGRAPH Course Note 1997) UNC Course of Physics Based Simulation (Hirota, Lin, Manicha, CS 290 Sprinf 1998) Webb Roberts Slides Numerical Recipes BOOK Chap 16: Integration .. Runge-Kutta Method Adaptive Stepsize Control for Runge-Kutta Modified Midpoint Method Stiff Sets of Equations	D. Baraff, Analytical methods for dynamic simulation of non-penetrating rigid bodies, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.23 n.3, p.223-232, July 1989 [PDF\|] David Baraff, Coping with friction for non-penetrating rigid body simulation, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.25 n.4, p.31-41, July 1991 [PDF] David Baraff , Andrew Witkin, Dynamic simulation of non-penetrating flexible bodies, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.26 n.2, p.303-308, July 1992 [PDF] Brian Mirtich , John Canny, "Impulse-based simulation of rigid bodies" Proceedings of the 1995 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics April 1995 [PDF\|ACM], [Roberts Webb]
	Thursday 11/4	Simulation II: Gases Mark Carlson's SLIDEs (PPT \| HTML \| PDF) Sarah Tariq's slides	Jos Stam, Stable fluids, Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH 1999 annual conference on Computer graphics, p.121-128, August 08-13, 1999, Los Angeles, California, United States [PDF] Fedkiw, Stam, Jensen, "Visual Simulation of Smoke", SIGRAPH 2001. [PDF] [Sarah Tariq] Jos Stam , Eugene Fiume, Turbulent wind fields for gaseous phenomena, SIGGRAPH 1993 [PDF] Jos Stam , Eugene Fiume, Depicting fire and other gaseous phenomena using diffusion processes, SIGGRAPH 1995[PDF] Movies: Ants (Flood Scene), Shrek (Shower Scene), Perfect Storm, Cast Away.
13	Tuesday 11/9	Simulation III: Liquids Nick Foster's WEB page at UPenn Ron Fedkiw's WEB Page at Stanford Jesse Shieh's slides Eric Yang's slides	Foster et al. "Realistic Animation of Liquids" Graphical Models and Image Processing", 58(5), 1996, pp 471--483. [PDF] Enright, Marschner, Fedkiw, "Animation and Rendering of Complex Water Surfaces", SIGGRAPH 2002.[PDF\|WEB] [Eric Yang] Nick Foster , Dimitris Metaxas, Modeling the motion of a hot, turbulent gas, SIGGRAPH 1997 [PDF] Nick Foster , Ronald Fedkiw, Practical animation of liquids, Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques August 2001 [PDF] [Jesse Shieh]
	Thursday 11/11	The John P. Imlay Distinguished Lecture Series will present Merrick Furst, Associate Dean and Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, November 11, 2004, 4:00 p.m. at Smithgall Student Services Bldg., Room 117.
14	Tuesday 11/16	Simulation IV: Cloth/Hair and Breaking David Cunninghams' Hair Simulation Project (Spring 2002) Zhongtang Cai's slides	Baraff , Witkin, "Large steps in cloth simulation" SIGGRAPH 1998 [ACM\|PDF] O'Brien, J. F., Hodgins, J. K., (1999) Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture. The proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 99, Los Angeles, California, August 8-13, pp 137-146. This paper has received the SIGGRAPH 99 Impact award. James F. O'Brien, Adam W. Bargteil, Jessica K. Hodgins, "Graphical Modeling and Animation of Ductile Fracture", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) , Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, 21(3), (SIGGRAPH 2002) July 2002 [PDF] [Zhongtang Cai] Optional Choi, Ko, "Stable but Responsive Cloth", SIGGRAPH 2002 July 2002 [PDF]. Anjyo , Usami , Kurihara "A simple method for extracting the natural beauty of hair ," SIGGRAPH 1992 [ PDF ] [
	Thursday 11/18	Facial Animation I Read Parent 6.3 Mitchell Halpin's slides Making Faces lecture are UCF Perlin's FaceDemo from NYU	Bregler, Covell, Slaney. "Video Rewrite: Driving Visual Speech with Audio", ACM SIGGRAPH 1997.[PDF\|WebPage] Guenter, Grimm, Wood, Malvar, Pighin, "Making Faces", ACM SIGGRAPH 1998, [PDF\|ACM\|Image] [Mitchell Halpin]
15	Tuesday 11/23	Facial Animation II Amy Lin's slides Gandhapuneni Ram Kumar's slides	Noh, Neumann, "Expression Cloning" ACM SIGGRAPH 2001, [PDF\|ACM\|WebSite][Amy Lin ] Ezzat, Geiger, & Poggio, "Trainable Videorealistic Speech Animation", ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 [PDF1\| PDF2 \| VIDEOS \| MORE VIDEOS] [Gandhapuneni Ram Kumar]
	Thursday 11/24	Thanksgiving	NO CLASS
16	Tuesday 11/30	Goal-Driven Animation I Christopher Parnin Andreas Von Hessling's slides Matt Wolff's slides	Perlin & Goldberg, "Improv: a system for scripting interactive actors in virtual worlds", ACM SIGGRAPH 1996. [PDF\|ACM\|Website] [Andreas Von Hessling] Arikan and Forsyth , O'Brien, Motion synthesis from annotations, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.22 n.3, July 2003 [WebSite][PDF][Video] [Matt Wolff] Blumberg et al. "Integrated Learning for Interactive Synthetic Characters", ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, [PDF\|PPT\|WebSite] [Christopher Parnin]
	Thursday 12/2	Final Project Presentations	IN CLASS
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F	12/6 8am-10:50am (CoCB 102)	Final Reports DUE by the end of FINAL EXAM Period	Report Includes A. Fully Documented CODE, with executables and instructions B. Document/Paper describing what was done C. Update of CoWeb D. Email describing Individual Contributions for TEAM Efforts.