COMPUTER ART: ADVANCED STUDIO

Winter 2025

Announcements

Have a good summer!

Grades for the Group Project are posted.


Course Information

You’re not going in with a solution. If you have a solution going into a project, that’s like throwing a dart at the wall and then drawing a target around it afterwards. If you have a design and solution in mind, you’re probably doing it wrong.

Stephan Larson

email:  stlarson@nmu.edu 
phone: x1488 (227-1488)
Office: 84 ART -- Office Hours

Syllabus/FAQ
Semester Schedule
Lab Hours

 

Stuff to LOOK AT

DAM - Digital Art Museum
Breaking Point and a Breakdown (photogrammetry)
Making Moves (photogrammetry)
OFFF CMDX titles, making of (photogrammetry)
How to Train Your Dragon projection mapping
QuickMagic. Another mocap from video tool.
MakeHuman - quick "people" models
Unreal Metahuman - mostly quick "people" models
Evolved Virtual Creatures
MTV Chart Strugglers
Hunters main title sequence
Joyce Ho - Semi-Permanent titles
Pollinate - Chain Reaction from Belief Design.
Beeple Challenged
Adobe Neo and Firefly
Press-Pause-Play
Poof and breakdown of AI process

Semester Schedule

The Experiments
Jan 13 (T) Intro. Module 1 intro.
Jan 15 (R) Experimentation and group think.
Jan 21 (T) No class. NMU closed.
Jan 23 (R) Module 1 due. Module 2 intro, production, and discussion.
Jan 28 (T) Module 2 due. Module 3 intro.
Jan 30 (R) Experimentation and group think.
Feb 4 (T) Module 3 due. Module 4 intro.
Feb 6 (R) Mocap in depth. Experimentation and group think.
Feb 11 (T) Automotons.
Feb 13 (R) Module 4 due. Project 1 intro.
Feb 18 (T) Preproduction for Project 1 due.
Feb 20 (R) Three shapes micro project.
Feb 25 (T) Project 1 rough due.
Feb 27 (R) Project 1 final due. Review PortDev.
PortDev
Mar 4 (T) Spring Break - no class.
Mar 6 (R) Spring Break - no class.

Mar 11 (T)Cross Pollination and discussion.
Mar 13 (R) Pitches for PortDev due.
Mar 18 (T) Visual libraries. Micro project.
Mar 20 (R) AI in the pipeline.
Mar 25 (T) Press-Pause-Play discussion.
Mar 27 (R) PortDev v1 due. Review Group Project.
Apr 1 (T) IAR - No class.
Apr 3 (R) PortDev v2 due. Finalize group proposals. Group Project proposals due.
Group Project
Apr 8 (T) Group work.
Apr 10 (R) TBD
Apr 15 (T) TBD
Apr 17 (R) TBD
Apr 22 (T) Evaluating the Group Project.
Apr 24 (R) Group Project rough due.
Apr 30 (W) 12:00 - 1:50pm. Final: Group Project final due