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:
- Generate a short layered animation
(
Over event).
- Generate a short title effects animation
(
Move2D event).
- Generate a match-moving animation
(
Move2D and Over events,
using TrueTrack).
- Generate a short moving TravelMatte effects animation
(
TravelMatte, SwitchMatte,
and Move2D events).
- Generate a color-corrected image from two different images
(
ColorCurves, AdjustHSV,
and Over events).
- 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:
- Cover page containing:
Course Id--Section No.
Name:
SS No:
Assignment No.
- Assignment description
- Key frames of the animation
- 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.