12:30-1:45TTH Rhodes 312
Schedule
(Tentative)
| Date | L# | Topic |
| Thu. Aug.21 | 01 | Introduction; course overview |
| Tue. Aug.26 | 02 | Image compositing, historical overview, basic techniques |
| Thu. Aug.28 | 03 | Apple Shake: GUI, interaction Module 01/Chapter 01: UI |
| Tue. Sep.02 | 04 | Apple Shake: GUI, interaction Module 02/Chapter 02: UI, Voyager, Fairy composites |
| Thu. Sep.04 | 05 | Apple Shake: basic compositing Module 03: split screen comp Module 04/Chapter 04, Chapter 05: blob comp |
| Tue. Sep.09 | 06 | Apple Shake: chroma-keying Chapter 10: primatte, ship comp Module 09: primatte, ashtray, statue, lady comps |
| Thu. Sep.11 | 07 | Apple Shake: color correction Module 05/Chapter 03: beach images |
| Tue. Sep.16 | 08 | Apple Shake: rotoscoping Module 07/Chapter 07: rotoshape, ship comp |
| Thu. Sep.18 | 09 | Apple Shake: basic image stabilization Module 08/Chapter 11: sentinel comp |
| Tue. Sep.23 | 10 | Apple Shake: match-moving, tracking Module 13/Chapter 13: building, watch comps |
| Thu. Sep.25 | 11 | Apple Shake: anamorphic images and depth-mapping Module 11/Chapter 08: vine comp |
| Tue. Sep.30 | 12 | Apple Shake: painting and dirt removal Module 06/Chapter 06: quickpaint and crow comp Project 1 due |
| Thu. Oct.02 | 13 | Apple Shake: animation and command line Module 12/Chapter 12: fairy comp Module 14/Chapter 14: command line |
| Tue. Oct.07 | 14 | Final project planning: scripts, storyboards, CG/live action
elements & compositing |
| Thu. Oct.09 | 15 | Screenplays & scripts |
| Tue. Oct.14 | 16 | Storyboards |
| Thu. Oct.16 | 17 | 3-act story structure Project 2 due |
| Tue. Oct.21 | -- | Fall Break |
| Thu. Oct.23 | 18 | File formats (headers, data), compression schemes (lossy, lossless, etc.) |
| Tue. Oct.28 | 19 | Image I/O, memory storage |
| Thu. Oct.30 | 20 | Image mapping |
| Tue. Nov.04 | 21 | Image warping (introduction) |
| Thu. Nov.06 | 22 | Image morphing Script and storyboards due |
| Tue. Nov.11 | 23 | Image filtering |
| Thu. Nov.13 | 24 | Convolution (OpenGL) and image filtering |
| Tue. Nov.18 | 25 | Spatial frequency analysis |
| Thu. Nov.20 | 26 | Sampling theorem & Fourier transform |
| Tue. Nov.25 | 27 | Pyramidal image representation |
| Thu. Nov.27 | -- | Thanksgiving |
| Tue. Dec.02 | 28 | Wavelet and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) |
| Thu. Dec.04 | 29 | Inverse DWT & pyramidal image representation Project 3 due |
| Fri. Dec.12 | 30 | Final animation due Project presentations 1:00-4:00pm |