I will be teaching Computer Animation in 2019-2020

Part of Computer Graphics (M2 MOSIG, ENSIMAG, Grenoble INP, Univ.  Grenoble Alpes)

The course is composed of 12 lessons. Each lesson focuses on one important concept in computer animation, one of the 12 principles of traditional animation, and one research paper.

• Lesson 1 : Introduction, pose to pose and straight ahead animation.
• Lesson 2: Keyframe animation, arcs.
• Lesson 3: Animation curves, timing.
• Lesson 4: Forward and inverse kinematics, slow in and slow out.
• Lesson 5: Finite state machines, anticipation.
• Lesson 6: Motion planning, follow through and overlapping action.
• Lesson 7: Camera animation, staging.
• Lesson 8: Rigging and skinning, exageration.
• Lesson 9: Mass spring systems, secondary action.
• Lesson 10: Rigid body dynamics, solid drawing.
• Lesson 11: Forward and inverse dynamics, squash and stretch
• Lesson 12: Ragdoll physics, appeal.

Reading list

1. 1. Improv: A System for Scripting Interactive Actors in Virtual Worlds
   2. Representing Animations by Principal Components
   3. Motion Doodles
   4. Style-based Inverse Kinematic
   5. Simbicon.
   6. From footprints to animation
   7.  The virtual cinematographer: A paradigm for automatic real-time camera control and directing
   8. Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters
   9. Subdivision surfaces  in character animation
   10. DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills
   11. Artist directed dynamics
   12. Spacetime constraints

Past academic years

I taught two classes in 2018-2019

Game Engines (M2 IMAGINA, Univ. Montpellier)

Introduction

Programmation OpenGL

Programmation GPU

Structure des moteurs de jeu

Optimisation des performances

Mathématiques pour le  jeu vidéo

Gestion de scène

Animation temps réel

Intelligence artificielle

Computer Graphics (M2 MOSIG, Univ.  Grenoble Alpes)

• Keyframe animation
• Kinematics for animation
• Dynamics for animation
• Procedural animation

Reading list:

1. Evolving Virtual Creatures
2. Improv: A System for Scripting Interactive Actors in Virtual Worlds
3. Large Steps in Cloth Simulation
4. Representing Animations by Principal Components
5. Layered Acting for Character Animation
6. Motion Doodles
7. Style-based Inverse Kinematic
8. As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation
9. Gesture-controllers
10. Eyecatch: Simulating Visuomotor Coordination for Object Interception.
11. SketchiMo: Sketch-based Motion Editing for Articulated Characters

12. DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills

Older courses.

Computer Graphics (M2 MOSIG, Univ. Grenoble Alpes)

Overview of the course

• November 29: Character animation, rigging and skinning
• December 6 : Kinematic methods in animation
• December 13  : Dynamic methods in animation
• January 3 : Selected papers in 3D animation

Reading list:

• Large Steps in Cloth Simulation
• Flocks Herds and schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model
• Representing Animations by Principal Components
• Character animation from 2D pictures
• Style-based Inverse Kinematic
• Motion Graphs
• Motion Doodles
• Evolving Virtual Creatures
• Layered Acting for Character Animation
• Good Vibrations
• Improv: A System for Scripting Interactive Actors in Virtual Worlds
• Space-Time Constraints
• Intuitive Interactive Character Posing with Millions of Example Poses
• Simple Biped Locomotion Control
• Eyecatch: Simulating Visuomotor Coordination for Object Interception.
• SpaceTimeSketching of Character Animation
• As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation
• Gesture-controllers
• Motion Grammars for Character Animation
• SketchiMo: Sketch-based Motion Editing for Articulated Characters

Computational Modeling of Narrative Texts, Movies and Games (MSTII Doctoral School, University of Grenoble Alpes)

I also taught those courses in 2015-2016. Here are the earlier versions of course notes and exercises.

Computational Modeling of Narrative Texts, Movies and Games (MSTII Doctoral School, Grenoble University)

• March 4: Introduction to narratology.
• March 11: Characters and agents.
• March 18: Time and space.
• April 1: Plot and story grammars.
• April 8: Story annotations.
• April 15: Reasoning about time and change.

Game Engine Programming (M2 IMAGINA, Montpellier University)

• September 18, 2015 – Course 1 : Introduction and OpenGL API , TP1: OpenGL programming in QT (in French).
• Septembre 25, 2015 – Course 2 : Structure of a GameEngine, 1ere partie;  TP2: Timers.
• October 2 : No  course this week.
• October 9, 2015 –  Course 3 : Structure of a game engine,  2eme partie. TP3: Programmation client-serveur.
• October 16, 2015 – Course 4: Mathematics for games. TP4: Ressource Manager.
• October 23, 2015 – Course 5:  GPU Programming for games.  TP5 : Textures and shaders.
• October 30 : Mid-term vacation.
• November 6, 2015 – Course 6 : Gameplay.
• November 13, 2015 – Course 7: Scene graphs and scene management.  TP7: Levels of details
• November 20,  2015 – Course 8 : Physics for games.
• November 27,  2015 – Course 9 : Real-time character animation, TP9 :  Bibliographic search results.
• December 4,  2015 – Course 10 : Artificial Intelligence for games, TP10:  Project design documentation.

Advanced Computer Graphics (M2 MOSIG, GrenobleUniversity)

Overview of the course

• November 24: Character animation 
• December 1 : Kinematics for animation
• December 8  : Dynamics for animation
• January 4 : Readings in computer animation

Reading list:

1. Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation
2. Large Steps in Cloth Simulation
3. Flocks Herds and schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model
4. Representing Animations by Principal Components
5. Vector Graphics Animation with Time-Varying Topology
6. Style-based Inverse Kinematic
7. Motion Graphs
8. Motion Doodles
9. Evolving Virtual Creatures
10. Layered Acting for Character Animation
11. Good Vibrations
12. Improv: A System for Scripting Interactive Actors in Virtual Worlds
13. Space-Time Constraints
14. Intuitive Interactive Character Posing with Millions of Example Poses
15. Simple Biped Locomotion Control
16. Camera-on-Rails: Automatic Computation of Constrained Camera Paths
17. Eyecatch: Simulating Visuomotor Coordination for Object Interception.
18. SpaceTimeSketching of Character Animation
19. As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation
20. Gesture-controllers

I also taught those courses in 2014-2015. Here are the earlier versions of course notes and exercises.

1. Game Engine Programming 2014 (M2 IMAGINA, Montpellier University)

Plan du cours

Introduction

1. Rappels de maths

2. Structure d’un moteur de jeu

(…)

9.Animation temps réel

10. Intelligence artificielle pour le jeu video

Compléments : virtual cinematography slides

Compléments : sims-slides

TP9

3dMazeSource_v57

TP10

2. Introduction to 3-D animation 2014  (M2 MOSIG/GVR, Grenoble University)

Course outline

Reading list 

Kinematics for animation (October 6)

Dynamics for animation (October 13)

Character animation (October 20)

Course 4 (December 1)

Paper assignments 

Reading list:

1. Automatic rigging and animation of 3D characters.  baran-2007-ara
2. Skinning with dual quaternions.  skinning_dual_quaternions
3. Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model.  flocks hers and schools
4. Representing Animations by Principal Components. principalcomponents
5. Motion patches: building blocks for virtual environments annotated with motion data. MotionPatch0
   
6. Style-based inverse kinematics. Style-based Inverse Kinematic
7. Motion graphs. mograph
8. Motion doodles. doodle
9. Evolving Virtual Creatures. sims_siggraph94
10. Layered Acting for Character Animation. layeredacting
11. Good vibrations. Pentland-1989-GVM
12. Improv: A System for Scripting Interactive Actors in Virtual Worlds. sig96-improv
13. Space-time constraints. spacetime
14. Wiggly splines. wigglesplines
15. Simple biped locomotion control. Yin_SIG07
16. Computing the Physical Parameters of Rigid-body Motion from Video. bhatECCV02
17. Large steps in cloth simulation. clothanimation
18. Harmonic coordinates for character articulation. harmonic_coordinates_paper
19. Eyecatch: Simulating Visuomotor Coordination for Object Interception. eyecatch
20. Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation. subdivision_animation

3. Computational modeling of narrative texts, movies and games 2015(Doctoral Course, Grenoble University)

Course 1: Story and discourse.

Course 2: Characters and agents.

Course 3 : Time and space.

Course 4: Plot and story grammars.