Syllabus

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Plan a project which would benefit from motion capture
• Work and capture movements in a professional studio
• Edit and animate on top of motion capture to get a stylized/exaggerated result

OLD LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Students learn the basics of motion capture. They also learn/realise the differences between traditional keyframing animation, motion capture and animating on motion capture, and they learn to think about when to use which technique.

Credits: 3

Schedule: 11.04.2022 - 14.04.2022

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Kai Lappalainen

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  A workshop where traditional keyframing animation and and Motion Capture are compared to each other. This is done by executing the same movement using two (or three) different methods.

Assessment Methods and Criteria

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  1. Students plan a movement which they want to capture.

  - preferably something which is relatively easy, for example a dance move, aerobic move, sneaking, throwing a ball, hitting a ball with a baseball bat etc.

  2. The movement is acted and captured in motion capture studio.

  3. The movement data is cleaned in Cortex- software.

  4. The data is imported in Maya, where it is applied on student's own character.

  5. Student edits the movement in Maya, and also experiments in exaggerating and stylizing the movement by animating on top of it

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  The workshop has detailed lectures and work in motion capture studio, and lots of tecniques and hands-on training. 32 h teaching.

   

DETAILS

Study Material

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Lecture on motion capture, example files/projects and Maya scenes.

Substitutes for Courses

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Teaching Period:

  2020-2021 Spring IV

  2021-2022 Spring IV

  Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=DOM-E5055

  Registration for Courses: Sisu replaces Oodi on 9 August, 2021. Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-in-aalto-arts

  This workshop is ONLY FOR students in the current/ongoing 3D Animation course.

  Sign-up in Oodi at least one week before the course starts. 

   

  The order of priority for admitting students to courses at Aalto ARTS 1.1.2018 onwards (approved by The Committee of Arts, Design and Architecture on 10.10.2017)

  The order of priority is as follows:

  1. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have scheduled it for the current academic year in their personal study plan (HOPS);
  2. exchange students for whom the course is a part of his/her officially approved learning agreement and scheduled to be taken during the current semester;
  3. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have not completed it yet;
  4. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year
  5. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
  6. students for whom the course is compulsory for their minor;
  7. students, for whom the course is part of his/her minor subject s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
  8. students who have applied for the course through a student mobility scheme (internal mobility within Aalto University, flexible study right (JOO) studies etc.);
  9. other students.

   

  Courses that are intended to be multidisciplinary (e.g. UWAS courses) may apply an order of priority based on the learning outcomes of the course, while bearing in mind the university obligation of enabling students to complete their degrees within the normative duration of study set for the degree. The order of priority does not apply to courses organised by the Centre for General Studies or doctoral courses.

  This decision on the order of priority does not influence the right of the teacher to define prerequisites for the course.

   

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