📅 Schedule

Tuesday Thursday
W0 09/25

Course Overview & Introductions

Tech Setup

Lecture: What is Interactive Animation?

▶️ ASSIGN:
W1 09/30

📌 DUE:

🍿 STAMMER (2013)

Lecture: Key Principles of Interactive Animation

Tutorial: 2D Loops and Animation Basics

Overview of basic animation concepts, including frame rates, keyframes, onion skinning, and the 12 principles of animation. Investigating how animation logic differs in films VS interactive projects.

Studio Time (Start Animating Idle and Active Loops for Project 1)

▶️ ASSIGN:

 10/02

🍿 Lizard Ladder (2020)

Tutorial: Sprite Sheets and Animation States

Animate Idle and Active Animation States for assets, bring sprite sheets into Unity.

Studio Time (Animate Idle and Active States for assets, bring sprite sheets into Unity.)
W2 10/07

📌 DUE:

🍿 Double feat. Power (2017), Roommates (2017)

Tutorial: Intro to Unity C# Scripts

Conditional Statements, Point-and-click Interaction, Score-keeping.

▶️ ASSIGN:

 10/09

📌 DUE:

🍿 KRABI (1976)

Tutorial: Rigging, Animating, and Moving 2D Avatars in Unity

2D Puppet Rigging in Unity, 2D Navigation.
W3 10/14

📌 DUE:

🍿 Neon Bible (2007)

Mini-Lecture: Worldbuilding through Player Involvement

Tutorial: Trigger Events, Animation Events, Scene Management.

Set up trigger events; Create and link to new scenes and timeline events

 10/16

Tutorial: Sound and Scene Design Tips, Building your Project

Studio Time: Bring your work and questions to class!
W4 10/21

📌 DUE:

Project 1 Crit Day 1

 10/23

Project 1 Crit Day 2

▶️ ASSIGN:
W5 10/28

Lecture: 3D Interactive Animation and 3D Design in Virtual Environments

Tutorial: Intro to Blender Interface

 10/30

Tutorial: 3D Modelling and Rigging Workshop, 3D Unity Workflow

We'll cover character modelling, UV Unwrapping, Texture Painting, 3D Rigging, and 3D Asset Imports into Unity (incl. multiple animations for the same model) -- so buckle up for a long tutorial day!
W6 11/04

📌 DUE:

Tutorial: Interacting with 3D Assets in Unity

3D Navigation, Ragdoll Physics, Character Controllers

 11/06

📌 DUE:

Studio Time
W7 11/11

No Class (Veterans Day holiday)

 11/13

Tutorial: Simple Custom Controller Workshop
W8 11/18

Tutorial: Extra tips and tricks (TBD)

 11/20

Tutorial: Post Processing, Effects

Studio Time: One-on-one meetings
W9 11/25

No Class (Thanksgiving holiday)

 11/27

Studio Time: One-on-one meetings
W10 12/02

📌 DUE:

Project 2 Crit Day 1

 12/04

Project 2 Crit Day 2