CS91 - 3D Animation and Scientific Visualization

sean finney
spring 2002

3-D animation and scientific visualization is the study of making cool things and animating them, thus making them totally sweet. these cool things include, but are not limited to:

• setting things on fire
• spheres with your name etched onto them (in flames, naturally)
• particle emitters (where'd i put that...)
• rings that do nothing but spin (actually, this one's lame, but it serves to show how even something lame can be made cooler)
• spheres containing smaller spheres that bounce around (where'd i put that...)
• an annoying block guy who talks too fast but dies to make up for it
• ninjas (just think of how sweet they'd be animated...)
and most of all:
• GIANT KILLER ROBOTS

of course, to those who are unenlightened in the ways of 3d animation, there are some things that may not seem as cool, but I guarantee you they are. these things include topics such as:

• how to render from the command line
• how to make movies from maya scenes.

and in case you didn't catch it, here's my final project.

and a few shoutouts:

• sproul
• mike
• john
• shannon
• jonah