1. Introduction
Fundamentals in the discipline of animation.
Visual perception
- Rapid Eye Movement: scanning reality in rapid succession,
sending signals to the brain
- Simplified mechanical technique; Zoetrope1,
Zoetrope2
Story telling and acting out the story
- Illustration:
telling a part of the story through an image combined with the written
word
- Story board: telling the story through a series
of illustrations
Today’s visual media
- Film : 24 frames per second
- Broadcast
- Video tape: 30 frames per second (NTSC)
- DVD
2. Instruction
Maya
- Modeling
- Animation
- Dynamics
- Rendering
Animation; the illusion of bringing inanimate objects
to life
- Keyframe positions
- In-betweening
- Anticipation
- Overlapping
- Stretch
- Squash
Compositing
3. Conclusion
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