- Provider edX
- Cost Free Online Course (Audit)
- Session Upcoming
- Language English
- Effort 8-10 hours a week
- Duration 12 weeks long
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Overview
How do you create realistic animations? How do you predict the motion of materials? It’s key to the success of animated films to ensure (was insure) audiences believe in characters.
This course will show you how to create lifelike animations focusing on the technical aspects of CGI animation and also give you a glimpse into how studios approach the art of physically-based animation.
You will learn the fundamental concepts of physical simulation, including:
- integration of ordinary differential equations such as those needed to predict the motion of a dress in the wind.
- formulation of models for physical phenomena such as crumpling sheet metal and flowing water.
- treatment of discontinuities such as fractures and collisions.
- simulation of liquids and solids in both Lagrangian and Eulerian coordinates.
- artistic control of physically-based animations.
These concepts will be put into practice in the programming assignments spanning:
- Discretizing and integrating Newton’s equations of motion
- Constrained Lagrangian Mechanics
- Collisions, contact, and friction: detection and response
- Continuum mechanics
- Finite elements
- Rigid body simulation
- Thin shell and cloth simulation
- Elastic rod and hair simulation
- Fluid simulation
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In a standard classroom setting I can see where this class is reasonable. When conducted within edX's online course system, however, the class becomes an enormous struggle. The code you must work with to complete your assignments is poorly documented and doesn't follow good coding practices. Feedback from TAs or anyone “in the know” is dodgy at best. You get one chance to submit your assignment yet have ambiguous …
On the plus side, Professor Grinspun explains clearly and in an interesting way the concepts and methods that he is teaching. It combines a solid theoretical approach with thoroughly practical computational methods and one can imagine being able to put the whole thing to use in a practical production setting.
2. It's not a course about AI.
3. You should finish a mini project by using C++ before you take this course
4. It is a great and unique online course about animation and CGI motion, assignment is very challenging and funny.
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