MW 12:40-2:40pm, Architecture
C412, 3 credit hours
Last Update - 1/3/03
Course
Description
Course
Readings
Class
Schedule
Homework
Assignments
Homework
Images
Sample
Files
Example
RIB Files
Course
Notes
Renderman
& other Shading Links
Gallery
Student
Pages
Student
Presentations
Tutorials
Students are required to develop and maintain a set of web pages documenting the development of their projects.
The course will be conducted with a high degree of student participation.
Class meetings will nominally be for two hours twice a
week on Mondays and Wednesdays from 12:40pm to 2:40pm. These meetings
will be devoted to lectures on selected rendering
and shading topics, guest lectures, individual student presentations
on selected related topics, group discussions, and group review of works
in progress.
Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion PicturesReferences:
by Anthony A. Apodaca, Larry Gritz, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2000
The
RenderMan Companion: a Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics
by Steve Upstill, Addison-Wesley, 1992
Using Maya: Rendering, Alias|Wavefront
Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques:
Theory and Practice
by Allan Watt and Mark Watt, Addison-Wesley,
1992
RManNotes
by Stephen May
The Advanced Computing
Center for the Arts and Design, Ohio State University
Periodic in-class quizzes, reviews, critiques and discussion will be used to gauge student comprehension of the material presented. A series of ten homework assignments, intended to develop the ability to use Maya and RenderMan as vehicles for creating very high quality rendered images and animations, are an integral part of the course. Each student is required to make a class presentation on a relevant topic. The overall class participation grade will be the instructor's qualitative judgment of the student's participation, and will include such factors as attendance, preparation, and informed participation in discussion.