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Animation and CGI Motion

12 Weeks

$ 249

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Brief Introduction

Learn the science behind movie animation from the Director of Columbia’s Computer Graphics Group.

Description

How do you create realistic animations? How do you predict the motion of materials? It’s key to the success of animated films to ensure (was insure) audiences believe in characters.

This course will show you how to create lifelike animations focusing on the technical aspects of CGI animation and also give you a glimpse into how studios approach the art of physically-based animation.

You will learn the fundamental concepts of physical simulation, including:

integration of ordinary differential equations such as those needed to predict the motion of a dress in the wind.
formulation of models for physical phenomena such as crumpling sheet metal and flowing water.
treatment of discontinuities such as fractures and collisions.
simulation of liquids and solids in both Lagrangian and Eulerian coordinates.
artistic control of physically-based animations.

These concepts will be put into practice in the programming assignments spanning:

Discretizing and integrating Newton’s equations of motion
Constrained Lagrangian Mechanics
Collisions, contact, and friction: detection and response
Continuum mechanics
Finite elements
Rigid body simulation
Thin shell and cloth simulation
Elastic rod and hair simulation
Fluid simulation

Knowledge

To code your own physics simulator to master the fundamental algorithms for creating lifelike animations clothing, hair, liquids, rigid bodies and more!
Temporal integration of the equations of motion
Formulation of mathematical models for mechanical systems
Numerical methods for treating contact and impact
Lagrangian and Eulerian representations of continua control of physical models