Proseminar/Seminar - How to make a PIXAR movie
Prof. Dr. Westermann, Christian Dick
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Time, Place | 30.06./01.07.2011 |
Begin: | Introduction & topic assignment on Thursday, 05.05.2011 at 15:30-16:15 in room MI 02.13.010 |
Prerequisites | none |
Registratoion: | closed |
Proseminar/Seminar - How to make a PIXAR movie Contents
The main purpose of this seminar is to introduce the basic ideas of computer graphics. Exemplary topics as they occur in the process of generating an animated feature-film will be discussed. The seminar will try to cover the entire pipeline from the storyboard to the final movie, thus giving detailed insight in how computer-assisted animation is done today. The focus will be on computer graphics, but there will be other topics that address more artistic views as well.
To sucessfully participate in this seminar, the attendants have to prepare a talk, which should last 25-30 (proseminar) or 40-45 minutes (seminar). Talks can be held in German or English, with German being preferred. Supplementary, a short workout (approximately 4-6 pages) has to be prepared. During the preparation for the talks, independent investigation for further reading is desired. For general details, please see Seminar FAQ (PDF, not up-to-date).
News / Information
This seminar will be held as a block course on two days at the end of the winter term. We offer a total of 14 spots for undergraduate (Proseminar) and graduate (Hauptseminar) students.
An introduction meeting (Slides) was held on 05.05.2011 in room MI 02.13.010, 15:30-16:15. Topics were assigned during the introductory meeting in the order of registration.
Available Topics
Date | Title | Student | Betreuer | Link |
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30.6., 10:05 | 01 The Animation Pipeline | Sabine Küng | [webpage] | |
30.6., 10:55 | 02 Modeling | Thomas Schöps | [webpage] | |
30.6., 11:45 | 03 Motion Capturing | Thomas Parsch | [webpage] | |
30.6., 13:30 | 04 Inverse Kinematics | Daniela Steidl | [webpage] | |
30.6., 14:20 | 05 Deformable Bodies | Volker Jacht | [webpage] | |
1.7., 10:05 | 06 Lighting and Shading | Michael Keil | [webpage] | |
1.7., 10:40 | 07 Raytracing | Sebastian Wiendl | [webpage] | |
1.7., 11:15 | 08 Shadowing | Philipp Freyer | [webpage] | |
1.7., 13:00 | 09 Photon Mapping | Leonhard Rabel | [webpage] | |
1.7., 13:35 | 10 Non-Photorealistic Rendering | Johannes Schamburger | [webpage] |
Literature and Links
PIXAR online library
Dreamworks Animation SKG
Foley, Van Dam, Feiner, Hughes: Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Addison-Wesley, 2nd edition in C
Griebel, Bungartz, Zenger: Computer Graphik, Vieweg Verlag
In case google fails, ask us for material.
ACM Digital Library
The TUM has an account at the ACM digital library which hosts some of the most important conferences on Computer Graphics. To access it, proceed as follows:
- Configure your browser to use proxy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de at port 8080.
- Read the three bullets below, then browse to ACM Digital Library.
- Make sure you see "HeBIS: TU Muenchen" witten in the logo, and not "Technische Universitaet Muenchen".
- Now you can search for papers, topics etc. They are hosted in pdf format.
- It might be necessary to perform the above procedure from within the TU web.
