ARCH 3422/5322 - Computer Animation: Design in Motion June 13 - July 8 Instructor: Earl Mark Computer Animation: Design in Motion is a hands-on workshop in moviemaking through three-dimensional computer animation with composite video, sound editing, and motion capture. This course is open to all students and is especially attractive to students in areas such as design, studio art, media studies, moviemaking, computer science, drama, digital music, biology, biomedical engineering, education, and dance. We screen feature length and short animations along with ongoing student work concluding in a 1 to 5 minute final project. Tutorials include methods of constructing computer models of the built and natural environment, the dynamic simulation of light, air, wind, water, fabric, hair, springs, hinges and other physical phenomenon. They include character rigging and animation as well as inverse kinematics techniques for describing movement. Scripting in a java-like language is used to animate and to generate forms in some exercises. Inertial Body Suit Motion Capture provides for more complete capturing of human movement such as for dance and other types of character animation.
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