This course page describes the lecture of Sommersemester 2023. See list of other semesters.

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In the summer semester 2023, the Computer Animation lectures will be held online!

Please enroll through TISS and follow the TUWEL page for up-to-date news!

If you have any further questions, please contact Renata Raidou (rraidou@cg.tuwien.ac.at).

Organization

Computeranimation VU consists of lectures (with quizzes), exercises, and a small project.

  • The lectures are spread over the semester and will take place on zoom (links to the online classes can be accessed through the TUWEL page). The lectures are frontal presentations describing computer animation concepts, closely following the computer animation textbook Computer Animation (Third Edition) by Rick Parent.
  • There is no exam at the end of the semester, but at the beginning of each lecture (with the exception of the first, introductory lecture) there is a small quiz testing the content of the previous lecture. The quizzes account for 35% of your grade. 
  • The exercises are implementations of four computer animation techniques (hierarchical modelling, interpolation, object manipulation and particle animation). The exercises account for 35% of your grade. 
  • In the small project, you will apply the techniques that you learnt in the course to design your own short animation storyboard. The small project (incl. presentation) accounts for 30% of your grade. 

All details about the course components will be available on TUWEL. 

All components are mandatory (e.g., you cannot skip the project, even if you got a passing grade from the quizzes+exercises!)

Schedule

Thursday
09.03.2023
1100-1300 Introduction to Computer Animation
Renata Raidou
Thursday
16.03.2023
1100-1300 Interpolating Values
Aron Kovacs
Thursday
23.03.2023
1100-1300 Interpolation-Based Animation
Renata Raidou
Thursday
30.03.2023
1100-1300 Hierarchical Animation and Motion Capture
David Hahn
Thursday
20.04.2023
1100-1300 Physically-Based Animation
Chris Wojtan
Thursday
27.04.2023
1100-1300 Fluid Animation
Chris Wojtan
Thursday
04.05.2023
1100-1300 Behavioral Animation
Martin Klaffenböck
Thursday
11.05.2023
1100-1300 Human Animation
Hsiang-Yun Wu
Thursday
25.05.2023
1100-1300 Soft-Bodies Animation and Growth Animation
Peter Mindek
Thursday
01.06.2023
1100-1200

Project Discussion
Renata Raidou

Thursday
29.06.2023
1100-1300 Project Presentations
students