Architecture 5422: Computer Animation Design in Motion
Due: In-class screening July 6, 2021

Exercise 2: in and out of time

Create a 1 to 2 minute animation with human, machine-like and/or anthropomorphic form that incorporates varied passages of time (e.g., time lapse, real-time, frozen moments), and possibly reordered time imagined events (e.g., reverse motion), or revisited moments in time for the same event. This exercise is open to free interpretation. Incorporate sound either in terms of captured voices, synchronized sounds or short musical passages.

For some background concepts, read the following excerpts from the two references on the topic of time:

1. Kevin Lynch. "What Time Is This Plass, MIT Press, 1972 (excerpt, pages 117 - 120).
2. Rainer Maria Rilker, "The Notes of Malte Laurids Brigge", 1910, in Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sarte, Edited by by Walter Kaufman, The World Publishing Company, 1963 (excerpt, pages 116 to 120).

General instructions:

1. Use ergoman (a hierchically linked human figure we will use in the workshops) or similarly hierarchically linked objects.
2. Create one or several separate sequences at the same resolution.
3. Work with at least several objects
4. Render your work in medium raytrace quality.
5. Record your work to a jpeg or png animation sequence(s) and compile the resulting animation into a movie file.
6. Place your work in your personal submit folder on the CLASSES server under the subfolder named "exercise2" and email a short 1 to 2 paragraph written description to the course instructor. Alternatively place your work in your file drop folder on Collab on the sub folder named "exercise2".

NOTE: The CLASSES server is accessible from anywhere on grounds. Or you can also access it from off grounds through installing UVA's VPN (virtual private network) service on your personal computer:

Mac - smb://Classes.arch.virginia.edu/CLASSES (use Mac  OS “Go/Connect to Server” utility)
Win - \\Classes.arch.virginia.edu\CLASSES (use Windows OS “Start  Run” command)

When logging into the CLASSES server by means of the Windows OS “Start Run” option, type eservices\ followed by your UVa computing ID (e.g., eservices\ejm9k) similar to instructions for accessing the university’s computer network via UVA’s VPN system. The eservices\ prefix is not needed when using the Mac OS method.

If you wish to read more details see: https://web.arch.virginia.edu/uploads/documentation/computer-setup/