Learning Computer Animation
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Interesting Sites:

  • Animation: Independent Study

  • Course in Computer Animation (GWashU)

  • Computer Graphics at Was.State

  • Computer Graphics at U.C.Davis

  • Graphics and Visualization Center (Brown)

  • Visualization Center (GaTech)

  • Graphics Group at Brown

  • Online Course on Animation

  • PIXAR list of schools

  • PDI list of schools

  • Employment at WaveFront

  • Employment at PIXAR


    		• Computer Animation, is intrinsically a complex branch of cumputer science, whose result in itself is as much artistic as it is mathematic. In such context two diferent areas of Computer Graphics must be diffentiated: technical animators, artistic design and animation.


    The first area of study, technical animators, requires an indept knowledge of Mathematics and Computer Science (Computer Graphics, Image Analysis, Vision.) Thus, the possible attributes of a such carreer may include some of the following:
      Curriculum:
    • Transformations
    • Projections
    • 3-D wire frame rendering
    • Hierarchical polygonal modelling
    • Lighting and shading
    • Motion control strategies
    • Use of physically based motion control of rigid and flexible objects
    • Animation languages and programming
    • Dynamic visualization
    • Recording and editing techniques

    The second area, artistic design and animation, comprises of a study on the diferent types and aspects of animation in relation with the actual pre-produciton, production, post-production, as well as the tools available and needed to achive such enterprise. As such the areas of experties of such professinal would include:
      Curriculum:
    • 3d modeling and rendering
    • 3d computer animation
    • 2d computer animation
    • multimedia/interactive
    • digital painting/drawing
    • image processing
    • virtual reality (immersive)
    • virtual reality (non-immersive)
      Software:
    • Director
    • Photoshop
    • Quark Express
    • Freehand
    • Painter
    • 3D Studio
    • Authorware
    • Alias
    Schools at which one may learn such education include:
    • Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
    • Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
    • Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
    • San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
    • School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
    • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    by Santiago V. Lombeyda
    Sponsored by Dr. J. Popyack