CSC 2529 Winter 2005 Notes

Lecture 1: History and Principles of Animation

• The reading is Lasseter, Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation. This is a graphics paper version of the famous chapter from the book "The Illusion of Life."
• An amazing resource for early animation is the page at the Library of Congress. They have Quicktime movies of many famous, early films!
• For a great timeline of the history of animation, see Dan McLaughlin's web page.
• Mike Gleicher's principles of animation lecture.
• Cartoon Laws of Physics
• Animation principles
• Keyframing

Lecture 2: Storyboarding, Production and Layered Characters

• Layered Character Anim (slides)