On-line course info:

• Advanced Projects: Animation Spring 2009 Syllabus

Recommended Books:

• Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, 4th Edition Trish Meyer and Chris Meyer
  (4th Edition may be purchased from Amazon.com)

Course Help Links General:

• Maya Camera, Preferences, and Render Settings for HD720
• After Effects Composition and Render Settings for HD720
• Colorsafe Settings in AfterEffects for DVD
• Maya
• Good Example of a UPenn Storyboard
• View an Animatic
• Sound Effects at Penn
• Web Video Tutorial
• Looping DVD video Tutorial

Course Help Links for After Effects:

• Rendering AfterEffects for DV and DVD
• Expressions in After Effects
• Expressions with Geometry in After Effects
• Syncing to sound files with Expressions

3D resources:

• Flocking Simulation - Craig W. Reynolds
• The Renderman Repository
• Houdini Animation Software - SideFx

Helpful Animation Links:

• History of Animation Timeline
• Eadweard Muybridge Exhibit (PENN)
• Animation Companies and Schools
• Animation Journal - Animation History and Theory
• Example of a experimental animation grant - Stephan X. Arthur
• What is Fine Art Animation? - Stephan X. Arthur
• Ray Harryhausen - Hear NPR Interview 1 mb quicktime

Forum Sites:

• Vidipax - introduction to encoding
• Interesting Article on Polar Express
• BTV Pro 5.1 - View, capture, and edit video
• ImageDV 1.1 - Extract digital images from DV video.
• DV, DVCAM, & DVCPRO Formats - Adam Wilt
• PostForum - Maya, AfterEffects, and many other Forums
• Creative Cow - Maya, AfterEffects, Final Cut and many other Forums

Alternative Animation Processes:

• Organic Genetic and Evolutionary Art
• Karl Sims: Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics
• Karl Sims Page
• Evolutionary Computation
• Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life Resource