报告题目： Innovative Approaches to Teaching Animation
报 告 人： Brian A.Barsky, Professor of UC Berkeley
邀请单位： 人工智能与机器人研究所
报告时间： 4:00-5:30PM, 2012年5月24日 (星期四)
报告地点： 逸夫科学馆207会议室

摘要：

This presentation will discuss two innovative courses on animation.
First, "The Art of Animation" explores the artistic, aesthetic, and
cinematographic underpinnings of animation and is complementary to
courses on the mathematics, physics, and algorithms that underlie
computer graphics and computer animation. The course addresses art,
aesthetics, cinematography, camera angles, camera motion, composition,
staging, motion, evoking emotion, cartoon physics, character
development, story telling, acting, improvisation, physical movement,
exaggeration, Disney principles of animation, drawing, storyboards,
etc. Second, "Advanced Digital Animation" is a two-semester sequence in
which large groups of students develop a short animation. Students are
exposed to the full range of steps involved in the production process.
Topics include story and character development, visual art design, sound
and foley design, visual effects, lighting, rendering, optimization, and
advanced image composition. This presentation will be complemented by
the showing examples of student work from the two courses.

个人简介：

Brian A. Barsky is Professor of Computer Science and Vision Science, and
Affiliate Professor of Optometry, at the University of California at
Berkeley, USA. He is also a member of the Joint Graduate Group in
Bioengineering, an interdisciplinary and inter-campus program, between
UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, and a Fellow of the American Academy
of Optometry (F.A.A.O.). Professor Barsky has co-authored technical
articles in the broad areas of computer aided geometric design and
modeling, interactive three-dimensional computer graphics, visualization
in scientific computing, computer aided cornea modeling and
visualization, medical imaging, and virtual environments for surgical
simulation. He is also a co-author of the book /An Introduction to
Splines for Use in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling/, co-editor
of the book /Making Them Move: Mechanics, Control, and Animation of
Articulated Figures/, and author of the book /Computer Graphics and
Geometric Modeling Using Beta-splines/. Professor Barsky also held
visiting positions in numerous universities of European and Asian
countries. He is also a speaker at many international meetings, an
editor for technical journal and book series in computer graphics and
geometric modelling, and a recipient of an IBM Faculty Development Award
and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award.
Further information about Professor Barsky can be found at
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~barsky/biog.html.