Place and Time:
Monday and Wednesday from 1:30 to 4:20
303 CFA for the inital meetings.
Q. Youn Hong
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Nina Sarnelle
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jkh/aat_s10This is the primary online source for information about the course, including assignments, lecture notes, and administrative details. The blackboard site is available here. It will have email lists for the groups to use as well as materials for some of the assignments.
There will be /afs space for your assignments and projects:
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15465-s10-users
Attendance will be graded as follows:
Class attendance is mandatory. You are required to sign the attendance sheet at each class. Each
missed class will cause you to lose 1/3rd of the class attendance score (4% of the final grade).
Three absences will result in a final grade that is one letter grade lower.
There will be two kinds of assignments: individual assignments at the
start of the semester and a final project. The individual assignments will be
completed by each student, the final project will be completed in teams
of about eight students.
All assignments will be turned in as movies. The final project will begin
as a storyboard, morph into an animatic and gradually become a complete animation
with fully rendered frames and audio.
Grading on programming assignments is based the ambitiousness of what you
attempted and the quality of the result. We will spend class time
critiquing the animations and assignments. The notion of a critique may
be unfamilar to some in the class. See the supplemental readings above for
an introduction to the concept.
Assignments should be turned in on
the day they are due by midnight. We will look at the time stamp on your
files to verify that they were turned in on time.
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15465-s10-users/
Prerequisites
Software
Optional Texts (available from amazon and elsewhere)
Publisher: Sybex; Pap/Cdr edition (January 9, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0470372370
ISBN-13: 978-0470372371
Publisher: Sybex; Pap/DVD edition (April 27, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0470392207
ISBN-13: 978-0470392201
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (December 19, 2002)
ISBN: 1558608354
Publisher: Charles River Media; 1 edition (April 28, 2008
ISBN-10: 158450530
ISBN-13: 978-1584505303
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2 edition (July 18, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0120887932
ISBN-13: 978-0120887934
by Jeremy Cantor, Pepe Valencia
Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (June 10, 2004)
Thomson Course Technology
ISBN: 1592001173
Other Texts and Sources
Grading Information
Grading for the class will be split up as follows:
Assignments and Projects
Late policy
Jessica Hodgins