| INSTRUCTOR: | Sophie Joerg |
| OFFICE HOURS: | Tue 9:30-10:30am, and by appointment or when you can find me, McAdams 318 |
| SEMESTER: | Spring 2016 |
| TIME: | MW 12:30-1:45pm |
| LOCATION: | McAdams 118C |
| Date | Topic | Homework, talks |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 6 | Introduction |
Jessica Hodgins and James O'Brien. 1999. Computer Animation. |
| Jan 14 | Transformations | - |
| Jan 13 | Rotations |
Ken Shoemake. 1985. Animating Rotation with Quaternion Curves SIGGRAPH '85. |
| Jan 20 | Introduction to Unity |
Homework: Roll-A-Ball Tutorial, see also Unity Manual and Scripting Reference |
| Jan 25 | Quaternions and Interpolation | Rotation in Unity as discussed in class. Useful: Rick Parent. 2012. Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques. Appendix B. |
| Jan 27 | Kinematics | Forward kinematics chain in Unity as discussed in class. |
| Jan 30 | Inverse Kinematics | Useful: Rick Parent. 2012. Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques. Chapter 5. |
| Feb 4 | Human Motion Perception |
Assignment 1 out Randolph Blake and Maggie Shiffrar. Perception of human motion. Annual Review of Psychology 2007. |
| Feb 8 | Motion Editing |
Andrew Witkin and Zoran Popović. 1995. Motion Warping. SIGGRAPH 95. Armin Bruderlin and Lance Williams. 1995. Motion signal processing. SIGGRAPH 95. Martin Prazak, Rachel McDonnell, and Carol O’Sullivan. 2014. Perceptual Evaluation of Human Animation Timewarping. SIGGRAPH Asia Sketch. |
| Feb 15 | Motion Capture | Assingment 1 due Read motion capture wiki page |
| Feb 17 | Mecanim Intro |
Animation Tutorials |
| Feb 22 | Motion Capture Demo | - |
| Feb 24 | Motion Trees |
Assignment 2 out Setting up a Humanoid Avatar |
| Feb 29 | Motion Graphs |
1. Lucas Kovar, Michael Gleicher, Fred Pighin. 2002. Motion Graphs. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 2. Okan Arikan and David Forsyth. 2002. Interactive Motion Generation from Examples. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 3. Jehee Lee, Jinxiang Chai, Paul S. A. Reitsma, Jessica K. Hodgins, and Nancy S. Pollard. 2002. Interactive Control of Avatars Animated with Human Motion Data |
| March 2 | no class | organize your Motion Capture session |
| March 7 | Topics and Projects Motion Graph research paper discussion | Send top 3 preferences by e-mail |
| March 9 | Motion Graphs and Databases | - |
| March 21 | Guest lecture: Victor Zordan on Physically Based Animation | Assignment 2 due |
| March 28 | Motion Graphs, IEEE VR | |
| March 30 | Faces and Eyes | |
| April 4 | Various topics | canceled |
| April 6 | Gestures and Hands |
Zach: Chen Cao, Derek Bradley, Kun Zhou, Thabo Beeler. 2015. Real-Time High-Fidelity Facial Performance Capture. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2015) Yu Li: Binh Huy Le, Xiaohan Ma, and Zhigang Deng. 2012. Live Speech Driven Head-and-Eye Motion Generators. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 18(11) Olivia: Gerard Pons-Moll, Javier Romero, Naureen Mahmood, and Michael J. Black. 2015. Dyna: A Model of Dynamic Human Shape in Motion. ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH) |
| April 11 | Controlling Animations |
Yu Gu: Nancy S. Pollard and Victor B. Zordan. 2005. Physically Based Grasping Control from Example ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Los Angeles, CA, pp 311-318. Heng: Yuting Ye and C. Karen Liu. 2012. Synthesis of Detailed Hand Manipulations Using Contact Sampling. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012) 31(4), Article 41. Yaolong: Takaaki Shiratori and Jessica K. Hodgins. 2008. Accelerometer-based User Interfaces for the Control of a Physically Simulated Character. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2008), 27(5). |
| April 13 | Emotion and Style |
Lorraine: Yeongho Seol, Carol O'Sullivan, and Jehee Lee. 2013. Creature Features: Online motion puppetry for non-human characters. Symposium on Computer Animation. John: Takaaki Shiratori, Atsushi Nakazawa, Katsushi Ikeuchi. 2006. Dancing-to-Music Character Animation. Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 25, No.3 Saurabh: Eakta Jain, Yaser Sheikh, and Jessica Hodgins. Leveraging the Talent of Hand Animators to Create Three-Dimensional Animation. Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA). |
| April 18 | Perception |
Yao Ji: Jing Wang and Bobby Bodenheimer. 2008. Synthesis and Evaluation of Linear Motion Transitions. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 27(1). Nate: Rachel McDonnell, Micheal Larkin, Simon Dobbyn, Steven Collins, Carol O'Sullivan. 2008. Clone attack! Perception of crowd variety ACM Transactions on Graphics. |
| April 20 | Crowds and Herds |
Rui: Katsu Yamane, Yuka Ariki, and Jessica Hodgins. 2010. Animating Non-Humanoid Characters with Human Motion Data Tyler: Stephen. J. Guy, Jatin Chhugani, Sean Curtis, Pradeep Dubey, Ming Lin, Dinesh Manocha. 2010. PLEdestrians: A least-effort approach to crowd simulation. |
| Date | Topic | Homework, talks |
|---|---|---|