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Fall 2000

Prof: Penny Dhaemers, Arch 138, 139X
Lab Assistants: Asa Enochs, Jon Van Horn

Aug 31 Intro to class; Discussed parameters ie, various softwares, 
3Dmax is department software. Handed out past field trip schedules and showed

Siggraph 00, Electronic Theater tape Lon Addison, guest talking about Virtual Reality matters concerning Center for Design Visualization.  Assigned. Storyboards: 15 8 ½ x 11 sketches

Sept 7 Discussed class storyboard presentations, 3 hours.
     (G) Lon Addison gave students a virtual reality demo in 470

Sept 14 Story board presentations. Previous student animations
     (FT) University Art Museum.
     (G) Steve Seid description about collecting the NCET data

Sept 21 (FT) Giant Killer Robots. Peter Oberdorpher, John Vegher, 
                                   both UC Arch graduates, and Mike Schmidt, MIT

Sept 27 (G) ILM, Russell Paul, hard surface modeler, Steve Rawlings,
       Creature Animator

Oct 5 (FT) CYRA Technologies, Guy Cutting, Engineer

Oct 12 More student animations, Asa Enochs, Tom Hammock,
        Marcus Choi, Paul Choi, Kuan Chan, Laura Steele, etc
        Excerpt from ‘What Dreams May Come’ re: GKB and Manex
           field trips
        Electronic Theater from Siggraph 1999

Oct 19, 20 Mid-Review 1

Oct 26 (FT) Manex Visual Effects, ‘Matrix’, Those talking to us were:
HP Duiker, former 138 student and part of Fiat Lux from Siggraph 99
& 00 tapes, Dan Lombardo, intro, George Borshukov, former CS
major, Matt Farrell discussed tape from back of room, Mauriccio
Baiocchio, programmer who photographed us, and Dan Reynolds,

Nov 2, 3 Mid-Review 2

Nov 9 1) Discussion showing connection between Eadweard
Muybridge’s  'multiple camera' investigative system to visualize
reality and the method used in Matrix by Manex VFX people to attain
unreality;  
     2) Checkmate by David Metzger;
    3) Softimage reel showing Softimage use by ILM and other  
        animation houses.
    (G) Design Reactor, Rotten Tomatoes; Wilson Wang and Paul
         Lee  showing design process and reasons behind design for
         <rottentomatoes.com>, a new and innovative film crit page.

Nov 16 Tape of architectural graphic work by Michael Sechman of Sechman Assoc
      (G) Blue Bactol and Verundy from ID8Media
      1) CS3 Demo 2) NeMo demo showing architecural plans for a
           gallery.

Nov 30 Film of George Lucas USC project to show his thinking in relation to Star Wars pic.
       Drawings from Star Wars, Tapes: N Marks, CG modeling for the
       Mummy, Tesai tape Architecture, and Siggraph 98 Electronic
       Theater Tape

Dec 7, 8 Mid-Review 3
       (G) Ruieta Da Silva talking about what its like to work at Pixar.
          And Mid-Review Class animations.

Dec 21, 22 Final
       Wurster Lobby, Guest Reviewers:  
        Kelly Durkin from Sandboa and Roger Nelson from Deep Forest.