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Digital Film Production, Computer Generated Imagery (CGI)

Techniques behind digitally animated movies and digital special effects
More and more important for game development, too

No training in Maya, Cinema 4D, etc., but focus on computational and programming techniques.

Rote learning sequences of mouse clicks is of little use: The next generation of 3D software will require re-learning. Rather unterstand what you're doing.
Scripts and plug-ins developed ad hoc are used in all major film and game productions.

Outline of the course

Modellierung

Subdivision surfaces

Texturing/shading

Vertex and pixel shader, HLSL, .fx

Animation

Game Engines
Rigid body physics, physics engines
Particles, herds
Bones, IK, morphing
Motion capture

Rendering

Ray tracing, global illumination
Shadows
Stereoskopie
Level of detail, culling
RenderMan etc.
Post effects, compositing

Important things not to be covered

Hair
Cloth
Motion control, motion tracking
Non-photorealistic Rendering
Artificial Intelligence (-> Non-Player Characters)

Lab

Five programming (and documentation!) examples
Work in pairs
Bi-weekly
But not next week