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Fall 2001
Professor Penny Dhaemers
Arch 138 & Arch 139X
Aug 30-Dec 7 Thursdays 3:30-6:30 481 Wurster
GSI Eric J
Anderson, Lab Assistants: Conrad Seto, Hoey Yip
Aug 30
Intro to class; Discussed all aspects of possible
animation types.
Students may use any software, hardware etc.
The department
has
3DStudio Max.
Gave out storyboard assignment for next meeting.
Viewed Siggraph
01, Electronic Theater DVD which showed
overview of the best animation for the past
year.
Sept 6
Class put up storyboards
and thoroughly discussed what
the
content was and other possibilities for the story line.
Guest
David
Sherwin who spoke of his experiences in the field
as an artist, an
Ars Electronica winner,
and a specialist;
Quality Assurance technician.
Sept 13
Class demos by
GSI Eric Anderson in 3DStudio Max
Guest,
Tom
Krizner, MA VS, showed his unique animation
method and concept.
Presentations: animation beginnings
Viewed Siggraph 00, Electronic Theater tape.
Sept 20
Continuation of class presentations:
Showed
Early Pixar animations: Luxo 97, Red's Dream, etc
Viewed Siggraph 99, Electronic Theater tape.
Sept 27
Guest,
Patrick Lee
from Design Reactor and Rotten Tomatoes.
Discussed
rise and staying ability of the two companies in today's market.
'Showed
Pixar's 'Geri's Game', Some early 138 animations.
David Lam and
David Yang showed work.
Oct 4
Guest, Edward
Raymond from IASTE, VP Local 16
represented
at ILM. Raymond long a member of the union
gave
a
substantial talk on the benefits of the union
at ILM both for
the employees and the company.
Showed animations
by: Cammy, Senh
Duong, Jose Millar, James Pine,
Calvin Poon, Chris
Pramuk, John Pyun, Conrad
Seto and Laura Steele
Midterm 1 work shown. Daniel
Atkins, Doris Cheung, Tim Huey,
David Lam, Edmund
Lin, Steven Toh, David Yang
Group: Anthony
Lee. Conrad Seto, Irene Yang,
Oct 11
Guest,
Michael
Sechman, Architectural
Computer Graphics,
Sechman Associates.
Michael described to us, from the
point of being the
owner and creator of Sechman Assoc., just what his
graphic professional
life is like. Please check out his superb website
at <www.msechman.com>
Showed Animations: Qing
Ching, Haia Ghalib, Jon
Havarileska,
Christofer
Lee, Rockman, Andy Schmeder,
Steven Suh
Midterm 1work
shown: Chester Chen, Laywan Kuan, George Sun,
Wei-Ling Wu, Marcus Choi
Oct 18
Guest, John Vegher, Giant Killer Robots.
John Vegher, Peter
Oberdorpher and Mike Schmidt founded the
exciting company
Giant Killer Robots. The class heard from John details
of the
development and history of GKR.
Class Discussion and animations
Animations by: Asa
Enochs, Steve Au, Jon Van Horn, Vivian Quok,
Bruce Ou, David Lam, Hoey Yip
Oct 25
Guest, Professor Dennis Lieu, UC
Berkeley, ME, E 128
Professor Lieu gave a presentation using computer
animation and multimedia
techniques. Design using parametric 3D CAD.
He showed ten animations
from his E 128 class.
Groups of three students created each animation.
Oct 30, Tuesday
Field Trip to SF Siggraph at Fort Mason to see and
hear about
game companies from:
Lance Alameda, Discreet
Terrence Masson, Ronin
Entertainment
Robert Huebner, Nihilistic
Systems
David Stripinis, Factor 5
The
class sat together toward front for great viewing and afterwards were
able to talk at length
to the featured speakers.
Nov 1, Thursday
Long class discussion about Tuesday's Siggraph event.
After discussion midterm work was
presented by: Daniel
Atkins,
Doris Cheung, Tim Huey, David Lam, Stephen Toh, and Hoey Yip
Nov 8
Guest: Terrence Masson from Ronin
Entertainment presented
real
world production
experience covering the many different aspects for
which the industry is noted. It was quite different material than
his
contribution for
the Siggraph event of Oct 30.
Midterm
2 presentations: Edmund
Lin, George Sun, Wei-Ling Wu
Group: Anthony Lee, Conrad Seto, and Irene Yang
Nov 15
Guest: Steve Rosenbaum
will talk to
us about his experiences
at Sony Pictures
Imageworks and ILM. His visual effects
team won two Oscars for 'Forest Gump',
one American
and one British. His
title is Visual Effects Supervisor.
Midterm
2 presentations:
Laywan Kuan, Kenya Tyler, David Yang
Nov 29
Guests: Dennis Martin &
Chris Pramuk, CYRA Technologies.
Recently
acquired by Leica, CYRA produces highly
sohisticated 3D laser scanners capable of scanning such diverse
locations as large buildings, movie sets, large construction projects,
oil refineries, and
historic sites such as Tombo Colorado in Peru
(an Inca
Adobe Site currently being researched by archaeologist
Craig
Morris and architect JP Protzen)
Dennis and Chris, Application Engineers for CYRA have traveled
the world
in pursuit of their job. They demonstrated and explained
details
of
the scanning process with which they work.
They
scanned Wurster Hall and the retrofit construction,
including scanning the California Oaks which are in front of the building.
They
distributed tif images of the scene to the students.
Sensational!
Midterm 3 presentations:
Doris Cheung, Tim Huey, and David Yang
Dec 6
Midterm
3 presentations by the rest of the class.
Dec 19
Final, Reviewers:
John Vegher from Giant Killer Robots;
Senh Duong from Design
Reactor and Rotten Tomatoes;
and Dave Sherwin,
artist from Rockette Works.
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