Animation+and+Simulation

=I. Introduction to animation= []

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Tasks: 1. Read Chapter I from H.G. Wells' The Time Machine found at [] or in the library: Biblioteca General. Hemeroteca Piso 3. 823.5 W453m and explain how it is related to animation. 2. Develop the circular path animation for a teapot using the template for the class. 3. Identify at least 4 animation principles found in the "One Froggy Evening" shot animation. In a document explain how the principle is applied in the scene. Use images to support your explanations.

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Tasks: 4. Follow [|this] Blender tutorial and hand in the resulting blend file. If you have time continue with [|this one] and [|this one]. =II. Kinematics= [] media type="custom" key="28273141" Tasks: 1. Develop a basic animation using Information can be found [|here]. 2. With your babylon knowledge display a bouncing ball.

=III. Digital characters= [] media type="custom" key="28292719"

Tasks: 1. In groups. Read the paper Art-Directed technology and answer: [] - How a digital animation studio works? - What is your role as a computer scientist? - What were the main challenges to create Puss in Boots.? - How they sorted them out? - What visual effects were added to the character?

2. In groups. Read the paper Leashing the alpha wolves: [] - Describe how the user's wolve brain works.

3. Follow the gngerbread man Blender tutorials: - [|Modelling gingerbread man] - [|Gingerbread man animation]

4. In groups advance in the development of your assignment and present the advances.

=IV. Motion capture= [] media type="custom" key="28357749" Tasks: 1. Import a .BVH fiel using blender 2. Briefly study the Kinect SDK examples.

=V. Dynamics simulation= [] media type="custom" key="28387201" Taks: 1. Using OpenGL, develop an application to collide to particles with the walls and between them. 2. Using Blender, develop a particle collision system inspired in the video: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJD0rxOevJo 3. Make a [|collision detection example]using Babylon.js

=VI. Advanced object modelling= [] media type="custom" key="28428127"

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[] media type="custom" key="28473555" Tasks: 1. follow and submit Blender tutorials at: [|Cloth] [|Hair]

=VII. Facial animation= [] media type="custom" key="28496777"

=VII. Virtual and mixed reality= [] media type="custom" key="28510271" Tasks: 1. Start with and get to the. 2. Using the [|Kinect], implement tracking. 3. Using [|ARToolkit], implement some kind of mixed reality

=**Laboratories**= 1. [|A template for the class]. 2. [|Babylon.]
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