ARCH 5345 Visualization Studio

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focus:  character animation - facial animation, concentrating mainly on the eyes.  Other areas will be the use of eyebrows and facial 'lines' to communicate emotion.  Also lip-sync may be involved.   

 

Resources:

'Stop Starring: Facial modeling and animation done right'

 

'Character Animation 2 Volume 1'

 

'Character Animation 2 Volume 2'

 

 

'The animators survival kit'

 

'The Animation Book'

'Autodesk 3ds Max 8 Revealed'

'Professional Short Films with 3ds Max'

'Inspired 3d Short Film Production'

'3ds Max 6 Animation'

 

  

Typical Facial Expressions:

 


 

Final Product: A short animation clip showing the various emotions of a simple character.  (*The emotions to be shown are still under investigation)
*www.keytoon.com (example final product)

 

Schedule:

Week.01 no progress...first week

01.11.06 - 01.14.06
Week.02 begin design and modeling

01.15.06 - 01.21.06
Week.03 complete model of head, teeth, eyes.

01.22.06 - 01.28.06
Week.04 complete model of tongue and eye brows / model Right and Left blink morph targets

01.29.06 - 02.04.06
Week.05 model eye morph targets (x 2)

02.05.06 - 02.11.06
Week.06 model mouth morph targets (x 3)

02.12.06 - 02.18.06
Week.07 model mouth morph targets (x 3)

02.19.06 -  02.25.06
Week.08 texture and light character

02.26.06 - 03.04.06
Week.09 texture and light character cont'

03.05.06 - 03.11.06
Week.10

SPRING BREAK

03.12.06 - 03.18.06
Week.11 pose out major expressions and begin design for animation

03.19.06 -  03.25.06
Week.12 begin animation rig if necessary

03.26.06 - 04.01.06
Week.13 animation cont'

04.02.06 - 04.08.06
Week.14 animation cont'

04.09.06 - 04.15.06
Week.15 animation cont'

04.16.06 - 04.22.06
Week.16 render and sound

04.23.06 - 04.29.06
Week.17 fix and solve any issues

04.30.06 - 05.06.06
Week.18 complete

05.07.06 - 05.13.06