CPSC 815 Special Effects Production
Fall 2001
Project 4

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: 11/13/01

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.