CPSC 815 Special Effects Production
Fall 2000
TTh 12:30--1:45 Rhodes 312
Project 5
<http://www.vr.clemson.edu/~andrewd/courses/cpsc815/fall00/hw/proj5.html>

Objectives:

To learn the use of Maya Composer.

Motivation:

This multi-part project examines the features and funcionality of Maya Composer, the Maya animation editing and compositing software.

Due dates:

Project writeup and animations: 11/30/00

Description:

Use Maya Composer to create several short animation clips:

1. Generate a short layered animation (Over event).
2. Generate a short title effects animation (Move2D event).
3. Generate a match-moving animation (Move2D and Over events, using TrueTrack).
4. Generate a short moving TravelMatte effects animation (TravelMatte, SwitchMatte, and Move2D events).
5. Generate a color-corrected image from two different images (ColorCurves, AdjustHSV, and Over events).
6. Generate a short animation composed of CG and live action components (TravelMatte, SwitchMatte, Invert, Multiply, and Over events).

Notes, suggestions, and additional requirements:

N/A

What to hand in:

``Professional-quality'' brief writeup, including:

1. Cover page containing: Course Id--Section No.
   Name:
   SS No:
   Assignment No.
   
2. Assignment description
3. Key frames of the animation
4. Complete animations (reduced size)

Electronic submission of images: provide a URL (web address) to your on-line presentation of the assignment. To keep the page size manageable, please use reduced images on your web page, but provide links to the full-scale example images.