Last Updated: June 27, 2002

Schedule

Below is a tentative schedule, with suggested papers for each topic. Other papers could be presented instead; those responsible for the topic should look through the text and the papers, and decide what material/papers are appropriate for presentation.

For an additional source of papers, see Michiel van de Panne's web page of computer animation resources

The Graphics Interface papers are available online; we have provided links to those web pages. The SIGGRAPH papers are available in both the CGL library and the Davis Centre library. Most of the ACM papers are available electronically through Trellis. Many of these papers are also available online directly, and have links provided below. Many of the links to the SIGGRAPH papers came from http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2001.html.

Here are some additional links related to computer animation:

For an overview of computer animation, see the the SIGGRAPH HyperGraph page on computer animation.
A timeline of animation
A timeline of animation
The Origins of American Animation

A solid disk next to a paper means that someone has selected that paper to present.

Week, topic, book readings	Presenters	Readings
Week 1, May 1: DC2102 Organizational	Instructors	None
Week 2, May 8: DC2303 Houdini Overview.	Josee Lajoie Selina Siu	None
Week 3, May 15: Basic motion (3.1-3.5/6).	Rick Leung Stuart Pollock	J. Lasseter. "Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation". SIGGRAPH 87. See also the HyperGraph computer animation page. TicTacToon, Fekete, Bizouarn, Cournarie, Galas, Taillefer SIGGRAPH 95, pg 79-90. Animating Rotation with Quaternion Curves. Shoemake. SIGGRAPH 85. Quaternion calculus and fast animation. Shoemake. SIGGRAPH Course Notes. 10:101-121. 1987. Spherical Averages and Applications to Spherical Splines and Interpolation, Buss, Fillmore, ACM TOG, Vol 20, No 2, April 2001, pg 95-126.
Week 4, May 22: Deformations, morphing (3.7-3.9)	Wegdan Abdelsalam Karen Thompson	Controllable Morphing of Compatible Planar Triangulations, Surazhsky and Gotsman, ACM TOG, Oct 2001, V20, Num 4. Applying cartoon animation techniques to graphical user interfaces, Thomas, Calder, ACM TORCHI, Volume 8 , Issue 3 (September 2001).
Week 5, May 29: Kinematics (4.2-4.4)	Tiberiu Popa Rafal Jaroszkiewicz	Novel Solver for Dynamic Surfaces, Ray, Qin, Graphics Interface 2001, pg 47-54. Optimization-Based Animation, Milenkovic, Schmidt, SIGGRAPH 2001, pg 37-46.
Week 6, June 5: Particle systems, flocking, behavioural, artificial life (4.5)	Guillaume Poirier Joanne McKinley	Examining the Generality of a Behavioural Animation Framework Miller, Johnston, WSCG 2001 Using Particles for 3D Texture Sculpting, Benes, Espinosa. Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, #4, 2001. (This paper is also available on the Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation page).
Week 7, June 12: Natural Phenomena (Chapter 5)	Tim MacPherson, Chris Ingram	Visual Simulation of Smoke Fedkiw, Stam, Jensen, SIGGRAPH 2001, pg 15-22. Practical Animation of Liquids, Foster, Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2001, 23-30.
Week 8, June 19: Articulated Figures (Chapter 6.1-6.2)	Erin Ren Ming-Yee Iu	Composable Controllers for Physics-Based Character Animation, Faloutsos, van de Panne, Terzopoulos, SIGGRAPH 2001, 251-260. Simplification and Real-Time Smooth Transitions of Articulated Meshes, Jocelyn Houle and Pierre Poulin, Graphics Interface 2001, pp 55-60.
Week 9, June 26: Facial Animation (6.3)	Zheng Qin James She	Geometry-based Muscle Modeling for Facial Animation, Kahler, Haber, Seidel, GI 2001, pg 37-46. Expressive Expression Mapping with Ratio Images, Liu, Shan, Zhang, SIGGRAPH 2001, pg 271-276.
Week 10, July 3: Cloth (6.6)	Mauro Steigleder Tarique Islam Josh Taylor	Robust Treatment of Collisions, Contact and Friction for Cloth Animation Bridson, Fedkiw, Anderson SIGGRAPH 2002 (to appear) Large steps in cloth simulation. David Baraff and Andrew Witkin. SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Proceedings, pages 43–54. ACM SIGGRAPH, Addison Wesley, July 1998. Fast Cloth Animation on Walking Avatars T Ivanov Vassilev, B Spanlang and Y Chrysanthou, EuroGraphics 2001.
Week 11, July 10: Motion Capture (6.7)	Henri Tan Josh Lessard	Computer Puppetry: An Importance-Based Approach, Shin, Lee, Shin, Gleicher, ACM TOG, April 2001, Vol 20, No 2, pg 67-94. Integrating Behavioural Animation Techniques, Monzani, Caicedo, Thalmann, Eurographics 2001.
Week 12, July 17: Sound	Alex Clarke Celine Latulipe	FOLEYAUTOMATIC: Physically-Based Sound Effects for Interactive Simulation and Animation, van den Doel, Kry, Pai, SIGGRAPH 2001, pg 537-544. A Desktop Input Device and Interface for Interactive 3D Character Animation, Oore, Terzopoulas, Hinton, GI 2002.
Week 13, July 24: Other	Tony Abou-Assaleh Shalini Aggarwal	Automating Gait Generation, Sun, Metaxas, SIGGRAPH 2001, 261-269. Expression Cloning, Noh, Neumann, SIGGRAPH 2001, pg 277-288.

Additional papers:

Dynamic Real-Time Deformations using Space and Time Adaptive Sampling, Debunne, Desbrun, Cani, Barr, SIGGRAPH 2001, pg 31-36.
A High Performance Solver for the Animation of Deformable Objects using Advanced Numerical Methods, Hauth, Etzmuss, EuroGraphics 2001.
Artist-Directed Inverse-Kinematics Using Radial Basis Function Interpolation CF Rose III, P-PJ Sloan and MF Cohen, EuroGraphics 2001.
Simulation Level of Detail for Automatic Simplification of Particle System Dynamics, O'Brien, Fisher, and Lin, IEEE Computer Animation 2001.
J.P. Lewis, Matt Cordner, and Nickson Fong, Pose Space Deformation: A Unified Approach to Shape Interpolation and Skeleton-Driven Deformation, SIGGRAPH 2000, pp 165-172.
Interactive Animation of Structured Deformable Objects Mathieu Desbrun, Peter Schröder, and Alan Barr, Graphics Interface 1999, pp 1-8