CPSC 815 Special Effects Production
Fall 2001
<http://andrewd.ces.clemson.edu/courses/cpsc815/fall01/sched.html>

3:30-4:45TTH Rhodes 312

Schedule
(Tentative)

Project 4 (Maya Composer: several short labs) due
DateL#Topic
Thu. Aug.2301 Introduction; course overview
Tue. Aug.2802 Image compositing, historical overview, basic technique, The Gimp
Thu. Aug.3003 Image representation (channels and layers), RGB color space
Tue. Sep.0404 Class cancelled
Self-study Assignments:
  1. rent and watch Perfect Storm DVD, pay particular attention to storyboarding examples given in the added materials
  2. rent and watch Gone in 60 Seconds DVD, pay particular attention to compositing examples given in the added materials
Thu. Sep.0605 Class cancelled
Self-study Assignments:
  1. rent and watch O Brother Where Art Thou DVD, pay particular attention to color balancing/correction examples given in the added materials
  2. rent and watch Cast Away DVD, pay particular attention to bluescreening and matchmoving examples given in the added materials
Tue. Sep.1106 File formats (headers, data), compression schemes (lossy, lossless, etc.)
Thu. Sep.1307 Image I/O, memory storage
Project 1 (The Gimp) due
Tue. Sep.1808 Image mapping
Thu. Sep.2009 Image warping
Tue. Sep.2510 Image morphing
Thu. Sep.2711 Maya Composer: GUI, interaction
Project 2 (Image Manip Tool: rotate/scale) due
Tue. Oct.0212 Maya Composer: layered animation (Over event)
Thu. Oct.0413 Maya Composer: title effects (Move2D event)
Tue. Oct.0914 Maya Composer: match-moving animtion (Move2D and Over events using TrueTrack event)
Thu. Oct.1115 Maya Composer: travel-matte effects animation (TravelMatte, SwitchMatte, and Move2D events)
Tue. Oct.16-- Fall Break
Thu. Oct.1816 Maya Composer: color-correction (ColorCurves, AdjustHSV, and Over events)
Project 3 (Image Manip Tool: image warp) due
Tue. Oct.2317 Maya Composer: live action/CG compositing (TravelMatte, SwitchMatte, Invert, Multiply, and Over events)
Thu. Oct.2518 Image filtering
Tue. Oct.3019 Convolution and image filtering
Thu. Nov.0120 Spatial frequency analysis
Tue. Nov.0621 Sampling theorem
Thu. Nov.0822 Fourier transform
Tue. Nov.1323 Temporal frequency analysis
Thu. Nov.1524 Wavelet and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)
Tue. Nov.2025 Inverse DWT & pyramidal image representation
Thu. Nov.22-- Thanksgiving
Tue. Nov.2726 Final project planning: scripts
Thu. Nov.2927 Final project planning: storyboards
Tue. Dec.0428 Final project planning: CG/live action elements
Thu. Dec.0629 Final project planning: compositing
Sat. Dec.0830 Final animation due
Project presentations 8:00-11:00am