Computer Graphics and Animation

Tutorials

2D Graphics

• 2D Drawing
  • Downloading and setting up T3D
  • Drawing lines and circles
• 2D Transformations
  • Manual tranformations
  • Transformations using Matrices
  • Combining transformations

3D Graphics

• 3D Objects
  • Creating new T3D applications
  • Pyramids and cylinders using Meshes
• Sweeps and Composites
  • Composite objects using Sweeps

Animation and Effects

• Lighting and Shaders
  • Gouraud and Pixel shaders
  • Oren-Nayar illumination
• Animation
  • Smooth interpolation
  • Animation using Key Frames
• Textures
  • Manual texturing
  • Procedural texturing
• Effects and Sound
  • Skybox and fog
  • Billboards
  • Terrain
  • Music and sound effects

Assessments

• In-Semester Test C++ programming exercise to test your basic programming skills to produce 2D graphics.
• Assignment 1 Write code to create 3D objects that may be used in assignment 2. Assesses your knowledge of 3D representations and programming.
• Assignment 2 Create a short animated movie. Assesses your understanding of 3D programming and animation.