{"id":1453,"date":"2019-02-05T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2019-02-05T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:41:18","slug":"non-photorealistic-animation-siggraph-1999-course-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/non-photorealistic-animation-siggraph-1999-course-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Photorealistic Animation (SIGGRAPH 1999 course notes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SIGGRAPH99-Curtis-NPA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1457 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_5269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1325\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_5269.jpg 1325w, https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_5269-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_5269-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_5269-1024x485.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1325px) 100vw, 1325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Way back in 1999, I had the pleasure of contributing a segment to a SIGGRAPH course on non-photorealistic rendering. By that point I had made a whopping two-and-a-half animated short films with different visual styles (<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cassidy\/brick\">Brick-a-Brac<\/a><\/em>, <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cassidy\/fishing\">Fishing<\/a><\/em>, and a never-finished <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cassidy\/newchair\">The New Chair<\/a><\/em>) which in those innocent times made me an authority on the subject. So I threw together a loose framework based on what I&#8217;d learned from those experiences, and built my piece of the course around that.<\/p>\n<p>I went back and re-read it the other day, and was surprised to find a lot of it still holds true. In particular, one lesson that we carried through in both <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tZwAbpbtsb0\">Pearl<\/a> <\/em>and <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TH3HOcRayC8\">Age of Sail<\/a><\/em> is that if you plan ahead and you&#8217;re smart about it, committing to a stylized look can also save you a lot of time and money.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re interested in making a film with a new visual style, but you just don&#8217;t know where to start, have a look!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SIGGRAPH99-Curtis-NPA.pdf\">SIGGRAPH 99 Course 17: Non-Photorealistic Animation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 1999, I had the pleasure of contributing a segment to a SIGGRAPH course on non-photorealistic rendering. By that point I had made a whopping two-and-a-half animated short films with different visual styles (Brick-a-Brac, Fishing, and a never-finished The New Chair) which in those innocent times made me an authority on the subject. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/non-photorealistic-animation-siggraph-1999-course-notes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Non-Photorealistic Animation (SIGGRAPH 1999 course notes)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-npar","tag-siggraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}