CS 6204 Character Animation, Research and Applications
Spring 2009

Week Schedule
Lecture notes can be found in webpage Notes.
Presentation papers can be found in webpage Resource.
1: 1/19 ~ 1/23
  • Tuesday: Lecture (Course Introduction, Graphics System Overview)
  • Thursday: Lecture (Character Animation Research Overview)
2: 1/26 ~ 1/30
  • Tuesday: Lecture (Skeleton-based Full Body Animation)
  • Thursday: Lecture (Mesh-based Facial Animation)
  • Homework 1: Due at 11:59pm, Feb 9th, 2009 (Monday)
3: 2/2 ~ 2/6
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Motion Graph) Chao Peng
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Motion Capture Editing)
4: 2/9 ~ 2/13
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Motion Capture Data Interpolation I) Eric Ragan
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Motion Capture Data Interpolation II) Curtis Wilkes
  • Homework 2: Due at 11:59pm, Feb 23th, 2009 (Monday)
5: 2/16 ~ 2/20
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Statistical model) Yannick Verdie
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Motion planning) Lee Clagett
6: 2/23 ~ 2/27
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Physics Based) Sean Ponce
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: MoCap + Physics) Liguang Xie
7: 3/2 ~ 3/6
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Motion Content Retrieval)
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Animating Mesh) Seung In Park
8: 3/9 ~ 3/13

Spring break. No class.

9: 3/16 ~ 3/20
  • Tuesday: Project proposal presentation
  • Thursday: Project proposal presentation
10: 3/23 ~ 3/27
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Facial animation: Rule-based Approach) Seung In Park
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Facial animation: Lip Syncing I) Curtis Wilkes
11: 3/30 ~ 4/3
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Facial animation: Expressions) Chao Peng
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Crowd Simulation: General Topic ) Liguang Xie
12: 4/6 ~ 4/10
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Crowd Simulation: Agent Based) Lee Clagett
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Crowd Simulation: Crowd Control) Eric Ragan
13: 4/13 ~ 4/17
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Crowd Simulation: Motion Planning) Sean Ponce
  • Thursday: No class
14: 4/20 ~ 4/24
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Hand Animation: General Topic) Yannick Verdie
  • Tuesday: Final project discussion
15: 4/27 ~ 5/1
  • Tuesday: Final project discussion
  • Thursday: Final project presentation
16: 5/4 ~ 5/8
  • Tuesday: Final project presentation
  • Thursday: No class