Week	Lecture 1	Lecture 2	Lab	Reading Ass./Quiz	What is due?
1 Aug. 25^th	Intro to course. Animation basics	Review of keyframe animation and hierarchical animation	Assignment #1. Keyframe animation. (Storyboard and timeline provided by instructor)
2 Sept. 1^st	Principles of Animation	Introduction of final project. Facial animation:eyes	Assignment#1 (continued)		Web site up and running
3 Sept. 8^th	Facial animation:eyes	Facial Animation : mouth (joints, blendshapes)	Assignment#2: Talking head: design and model		Assignment#1
4 Sept. 15^th	Blend shapes and skeletal deformation systems	Animation of facial expressions and dialogue	Assignment#2 (continued): Facial rig		Milestone#1: Treatment , character and environment sketches, preliminary storyboard
5 Sept. 22^nd	Storyboarding and Storytelling	Character Rigging and introduction to IK and constraints	Assignment#2 (continued): animation
6 Sept. 29^th	Lower body skeleton : the two standard IK setups for feet and legs	Lower body skeleton : the two standard IK setups for feet and legs (continued)			Milestone#2 (Thursday): Presentation Storyboard, character models
7 Oct. 6^th	Arms, Shoulders and spine setup	How to animate walks and runs	Assignment #3: Animation of: walk, sneak, run (rigged character provided by instructor).		Assignment#2(Tuesday)
8 Oct. 13^th	October break	Animation of walk	Assignment #3. (continued).
9 Oct.20^th	Arm (forearm twist) and hand skeletal setup	Animation of run and sneak	Assignment #3. (continued).
10 Oct. 27^th	Spine setup; IK/FK switch; influence objects and flexors	Acting for Animation
11 Nov. 3^rd	Acting for Animation	Animal Motion and anthropomorphic animation			Milestone#3: Animatics and character rigs (textured), environment and props models and textures, rendering tests
12 Nov. 10^th	Animal Motion and anthropomorphic animation (continued)	Animal Motion and anthropomorphic animation (continued)	Sweatbox
13 Nov. 17^th		Unusual rigs	Sweatbox		Assignment #3--final
14 Nov. 24^th	Unusual rigs	Thanksgiving break	Sweatbox
15 Dec. 1^st	Overview of Paint Effects		Sweatbox
16 Dec. 8^th	Dead week	Dead week	Sweatbox
17 Dec. 15^th	Finals	Fianls			Milestone#4:Project Delivery