CS 6204 Character Animation, Research and Applications
Spring 2011

Week Schedule
Lecture notes can be found in webpage Notes.
Presentation papers can be found in webpage Resource.
1: 1/17 ~ 1/21
  • Tuesday: Lecture (Course Introduction, Graphics System Overview)
  • Thursday: Lecture (Character Animation Research Overview)
2: 1/24 ~ 1/28
  • Tuesday: Lecture (Skeleton-based Full Body Animation)
  • Thursday: Lecture (Mesh-based Facial Animation)
  • Homework 1(Due at 2/10, Thursday, 11:59pm)
3: 1/31 ~ 2/4
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Motion Graph) (Bryan Cullingham)
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Motion Capture Editing) (Felipe Araujo e Silva)
4: 2/7 ~ 2/11
  • 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, 3/15, Tuesday)
5: 2/14 ~ 2/18
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Statistical model)
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Motion planning)
6: 2/21 ~ 2/25
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Physics Based)
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: MoCap + Physics)
7: 2/28 ~ 3/4
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Motion Content Retrieval)
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Full body animation: Animating Mesh)
8: 3/7 ~ 3/11

Spring break. No class.

9: 3/14 ~ 3/18
  • Tuesday: Project proposal presentation
  • Thursday: Project proposal presentation
10: 3/21 ~ 3/25
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Facial animation: Rule-based Approach)
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Facial animation: Lip Syncing I)
11: 3/28 ~ 4/1
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Facial animation: Expressions)
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Crowd Simulation: General Topic )
12: 4/4 ~ 4/8
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Crowd Simulation: Agent Based)
  • Thursday: Paper presentation (Crowd Simulation: Crowd Control)
13: 4/11 ~ 4/15
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Crowd Simulation: Motion Planning)
  • Thursday: No class
14: 4/18 ~ 4/22
  • Tuesday: Paper presentation (Hand Animation: General Topic)
  • Tuesday: Final project discussion
15: 4/25 ~ 4/29
  • Tuesday: Final project discussion
  • Thursday: Final project presentation
16: 5/3
  • Tuesday: Final project presentation
  • Thursday: No class