Technology and Animation

Course Overview

The course is an eyeopener to how various technologies have influenced the methods and workflow in animation & how use of animation has effected technology. This includes A historical perspective of technology in animation. Digital Image & Video Input technologies Digital Image Processing Visual Database creation & Management for animation Virtual 3D world creation & Rendering Expressions, Relationships computation and solving and their applications Mechanical Rigs and Gizmos for animation & effects. Motion Capture & Motion Control Convergence & combination of different sources for animation & effects creationUse of Animation in Technology & Science. New frontiers with the combination of Science, Technology & AnimationInteractivity, optimisation, real-time animation. Massive parallel processing & distributed rendering.

Total Credits	6.0
Type	Theory
Lecture	2.0
Practical	1.0
Half Semester	N
Text Reference	CG101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference, Terrence Masson. ISBN 073570046XChaos and fractals: new frontiers of science by Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe 2004, ISBN 0387202293 Crowd simulation by Daniel Thalmann, Soraia Raupp Musse 2007, ISBN 184628824XNo Strings Attached: Inside Story of Jim Henson`s Creature Shop by Matt Bacon, 1997, ISBN 0028620089The Winston Effect: The Art & History of Stan Winston Studio by Jody Duncan, 2006, ISBN 1845761502Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Special Effects by Thomas G. Smith, 1988, ISBN 0345322630Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm by Mark Cotta Vaz and Patricia Rose Duignan 1996, ISBN 0345381521The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, Second Edition: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) by Ron Brinkmann, 2008, ISBN 3706386The VES Handbook of Visual Effects: Industry Standard VFX Practices and Procedures by Jeffrey A. Okun and Susan Zwerman, 2010 ISBN 0240812425The Making of Avatar by Jody Duncan, Liza Fitzpatrick, 2010, ISBN 0810997061

About Instructor

Prof. Sumant Muralidhar Rao

Prof. Sumant Muralidhar Rao is an engineer, designer and an animato and has 13 years experience in the field of animation, and special effects filmmaking. He has been a consultant to Discreet, (a Canadian based company, that makes leading animation, editing and compositing software) and Tata Elxsi India Limited. He was the Director and one of the founding members of Animagic, a company with a sterling reputation for the quality of it’s work, be it traditional animation, computer graphics, special effects or illustration and design for print and the internet.