Course: Programming for Animators
Instructor: Rob O’Neill (roneill [at] dal [dot] pratt [dot] edu)
Course Website: http://www.morphometric.com/class/mel/
Syllabus: http://morphometric.com/class/syllabus/mel_syllabus.htm
Class del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/tag/prattcodemel/
Text Editors: http://morphometric.com/class/mel/text-editors/
Schedule (Spring 2010)
- Class Intro / Overview
- Variables and Data Types
- Logic, Recursion, Algorithms and, Scene Building
- Maya Dependancy Graph, Scene Architecture, and Selection
- Component Manipulation and Data Reading/Writing
- Animation
- Animation Workshop
- Introduction to Tool Building
- Graphical User Interface 1
- Graphical User Interface II and Intro to OOP
- OOP & Python Outside of Maya
- Special Topics: Character Rigging
- Special Topics: Rendering and Render Farms
- Make Up Lab Day (Off Class Day)
- Final Projects Due