Specialized Academy of Computer Media and Animation
Art & Animation 3-4
This class enhances techniques learned in Art and Animation 1-2 and Digital Art. Students plan sophisticated animations including sound track and sound effects. Students are exposed to real world applications of computer animation.
Student Knowledge
- Identify how the elements of art and the principles of design are applied specifically in animation
- Know the principles of traditional, cell-based animation and how they are applied with computers
- Identify specific jobs and fields that use computer animation
- Translate ideas into visually moving images
First Semester
- History of animation
- Traditional animation terms
- Photoshop/drawing
- Project: Animated GIFS
- Animation in professional fields
- Linear animation
- Cast to time
- Space to time
- Tweening-Director/Drawing
- Project: Short animation
- Storyboarding and characters
- Sound
- Animated short features and internet animated shorts- Director/Drawing and Scripting
Second Semester
- Vectors and graphics
- Print media
- Animating in vectors - Freehand/Illustrator/Drawing
- Project: Animated web banners
- Vectors and web page design
- Design for the internet
- Professional web design
- Interactivity- Dream weaver/Drawing
- Project: Web Page Design
- Animating and exporting for the web
- Sound formatting for the web
- Digital video capture - Flash/Video
- Project: An animated short for the web/animated video for the web
Skills and Approach
- Identify the structural components used in planning an animated project
- Execute scripts, diagrams, storyboards, and maps in creating animated computer-based projects
- Master advanced animation authoring software by creating their own animations
- Draw/design their own frame by frame sequences by hand and transfer and edit them in the computer
- Become proficient at generating graphic images for use in animation. Both hand-drawn and computer-drawn images will be manipulated and painted in computer programs
- Understand how computer animation is an indispensable tool that changes the way we will approach the future and how it affects the way we understand the present
- Effectively work with others in a multi-step process of planning, executing and critiquing multimedia animated prefects
- Compile professional quality portfolios of drawings, designs, and animations generated with and without the computer
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