Specialized Academy of Computer Media and Animation
Art & Animation 1-2
Students learn how artists today are using technology to make creative and innovative digital animations. Art and Animation is a project-based class which will motivate students to plan, organize, execute, and critique their own computer animations. The pre-requisite for this course is a passing grade in the Computer Applications course, or an exhibition of computer competency to the instructor.
Student Knowledge
- Identify how the elements of art and principles of design are applied digitally through communication media
- know the career paths and job opportunities available for computer artists and animators
- Know how to translate their ideas into tangible moving images
First Semester
- Survey the history of animation
- Computer basics
- The elements of art and the principles of design
- Photoshop software
- Cut, copy, select, paste, format, save as, filter
- Flipbook animation (Project)
- Beginning narrative animation (Project)
Second Semester
- The multimedia and interactive environment
- Careers in animation
- Anti aliasing versus aliasing
- Director: Keyframes, score (timeline), cast to time, movies
- Acquiring sound
- Animation and the web
- Flash: An online portfolio
- Interactivity: Behaviors, scripts and lingo
- Director: A linear animation (Project)
- An educational application (Project)
- An animation for the web (Project)
Skills and Approach
- Identify the structural components used in planning a multimedia project
- Execute diagrams, storyboards, and maps while creating animated computer-based projects
- Use a variety of two-dimensionsal, frame-based animation programs to create multimedia projects
- Gain proficiency in working and manipulating images in programs like Photoshop
- Acquiring and editing sound in Sound Edit 16, and composting and programming in programs such a Flash and Director
- Reflect about and interpret the saturation of digital images in society and the bombardment of images in the media
- Understand how computer animation is an indispensable tool that changes the way we come to understand the present
- Work effectively with other in a multi-step process of planning, executing, and critiquing multimedia animated projects
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Art & Animation 1-2
Art & Animation 3-4
Digital Art & Imaging
Digital Film Making
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Interactive Multimedia
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