DXARTS 442 Win06 Syllabus

BOOKS

Technical

Birn, Jeremy. Digital Lighting and Rendering. New Riders, 2000.
Brinkmann, Ron. The Art and Science of Digital Compositing. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
Demers, Owen. Digital Texturing and Lighting. New Riders, 2001.
Driemeyer, Th. Rendering with Mental Ray Vol. 1 -2. Second edition, Springer, 2001
Foley, van Dam, Feiner, Hughes, Computer Graphics Principles and Practice, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
Jensen, Henrik Wann. Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping. AK Peters, 2001.
Kelly, Doug. Digital Compositing in Depth. Scottsdale, AZ: Coriolis, 2000.
Paolini, Marco. Shake 3 Professional Compositing and Special Effects. Peachpit Press, 2004.
Ratner, Peter. 3-D Human Modeling and Animation. Second edition, Wiley, 2003.
Riddell, Danny and Britt, Andrew. Maya Visual Quickstart Guide. Peachpit Press, 2001.
Shreiner, Dave et. al. OpenGL Programming Guide. Fourth edition, Addison Wesley, 2004.
Strothotte, Thomas and Schlechtweg, Stefan, Non-Photorealistic Computer Graphics, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.
Sybex, Character Rigging and Animation. Learning Maya 5 series, Alias, 2003.
Sybex, Dynamics. Learning Maya 5 series, Alias, 2003.
Sybex, Rendering. Learning Maya 5 series, Alias, 2003.
Unix in a Nutshell. O'Reilly and Associates.

Art and Theory

Crista Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Art@Science, 1998.
Der Derian, James. Virtuous War, Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network. Westview Press, 2001.
Grau, Oliver. Virtual Art from Illusion to Immersion. MIT Press, 2003.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. MIT Press, 2001.
Murray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck. MIT Press, 1997.
Sobchack, Vivian. Meta Morphing. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Stephen Todd and William Latham, Evolutionary Art and Computers

SITES

Artists and Art Projects

Stephen Wilson art and tech links - good categories are Virtual Art, Rapid Prototyping, Computer Media
International Databank for Virtual Art (german primarily)
Mind into Matter - 3D Prototyping exhibition
Char Davies - immersive breath-controlled VR experiences
Donna Cox - UIC VR
James Duesing - surreal animations
Jeffery Shaw - VR environments
John Mccormack - 3D artificial life
Johnathan Dady - construction drawings
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Margaret Watson - Liquid Meditiation VR
Maurice Benayoun - World Skin VR interactive photomontage concerning war
Special Treatment - VR pseudo-reconstruction of Auschwitz II/Birkenau, Poland
Kennith Huff - Abstract sculptural stills
Kenneth Huff's Siggraph Artist's statement
Stephen Larsen's homepage - Visual poetry in physical tension
Kent Oberheu - design and composition, often abstract
Platige Image - makers of award winning independant animation Cathedral
Terry Calen - Northwest native working primarily with abstracts.
Terry Calen's Siggraph Artist's statement
Annika Erixan - Swedish artist. CG projects, many based on reactions and experience with Chernobyl
Masa Innakage - "Abstract Realism"
Francois Rimasson - French artist. Classic painterly realism.
Eugene Tulchin - Photo and cg with a cubist and surrealist twist
Cubatron - large 3D light cube for Burning Man
4D Art
Tania Lopez Winkler and Martin Lutyens - Second Skin: an emergent architecture
Gary Day - Siggraph Artist's statement
Invisible Shape of Things Past (1995) - Enables users to transform film sequences into interactive, virtual objects.
Maurice Benayoun - World Skin - Interactive installation
Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss - Home of the Brain - Virtual Reality Installation
Daniela Alina Plewe- Ultima Ratio - Software and interactive Installation

Events

General 3D and Maya Resources

Alias/Wavefront - makers of Maya.
Highend3D.com, - the biggest 3DCG forum around.
3DLinks.com - a compendium of 3D links.
CGChannel - an online magazine.
Learning-Maya - oodles of tutorials
Inside Computer Graphics - another online mag with job listings, etc.
VFXpro - an industry special effects magazine
Digital Clay - Research into unique tactile computer modeling systems
Reproducing Real World Light - Sample color values for 3D lighting

Compositing and Shake

The Bluescreen/Chromakey Page - some tips about this subject
Highend2D, Highend2D Shake Macros - cousin of Highend3D
Shake stories - from the Apple website
Tippet Studios and Shake - more about how a particular studio uses Shake
Combining a CG element with a photo

Rendering Resources

Stereo 3D Graphics Converting a topological map to 3D stereo
Lord of the Rings Making of Gollum - quicktime move
Non-Photorealistic CG - a page of links to explore this subject further
3DRender.com, 3DRender.com (Maya reference pages)
Lighting and Rendering - the site of Jeremy Birn, author of Digital Lighting and Rendering

Math/Science Reference

Animation Links

Animation Magazine - the online arm of the print magazine.
Animation World Network - where animation professionals go to look for work and get the scoop on what's happening.
Women in Animation - organisation devoted to women's role in the animation - men very welcome to join.
Abstract Animation
2D animation principles applied to 3D - John Lasseter's paper concerning animation techniques.
Spicy Cricket Animation - an independant site with some really nice tips for animation techique

History of Computer Animation

Virtual Reality

Rapid Prototyping

VRML and Cortona Viewer Resources

Questions and Answers