Schedule
IDS 352: Advanced 3D Animation, Spring 2010

Note, the schedule below is tentative and may be subject to significant changes.

Week		Topic	Assignment	Comments
1	Jan 18	Course Overview and S3D	Lab 1: Stereoscopics	Lucas visits Wed. MLK: No classes Fri after 12:30pm
2	Jan 25	Stereoscopics and Modeling	Lab 2: Modeling
3	Feb 1	Maya Architecture, Skeletons, Rigging	Lab 3: Rigging
4	Feb 8	MEL Scripting	Lab 4: Mel Scripting (music second)
5	Feb 15	Emotional Expression and Facial Controls	Lab 5: Faces and Blending	Wed Feb 17: meet with musicians in Ford 202
6	Feb 22	Facial Expression and Emotion	Lab 6: Facial Expression and Emotion (music first)
7	Mar 1	Body Movement	Lab 7: Gesture	Wed Mar 3: Animators and Musicians get together for showing
8	Mar 8	Story Development	Lab 8: Making an Animated Short
9	Mar 15	Story Development (cont)	Lab 8 (cont)
	Mar 22	Spring Break
10	Mar 29	Story Reel, begin Animatics, Modeling	Lab 8
11	Apr 5	Animatics, Modeling	Lab 8	Wed: meet with musicians in the theater.
12	Apr 12	Finish Animatic	Lab 8	Wed: meet with musicians to go over animatic.
13	Apr 19	Work on Animation.	Lab 8	Wed: Student Scholarship Recognition Day
14	Apr 26	Continue Work. Review final presentation.	Lab 8
15	May 3		Lab 8	Tues, May 4 is last day of class.
	May 7	Final Exam Timeslot is Wed, May 12, 2010, from 2-5 pm