ART (0104) 456 - Advanced Animation Projects

Credits: 3.00

Students will apply skills developed in areas of animation, story-telling, and film production to produce individual animated projects of several minutes in length. Students will prepare and present premises for their film, a pitch bible, plot, script, story-boards, and animated sequences in preparation for producing the final film.

Prerequisite 1: ART (0104) 295/COM (0108) 295 - Visual Narrative I and COM 225 and COM 345
Course Learning Goals: Part I: Conceiving the project

Students will:

develop and present a proposal for a short animated film.
write a logline and premise for the proposed film and if appropriate, character description(s) and description of context and/or the environment the proposed characters inhabit.
develop two-dimensional concept art featuring: character designs; prop designs; environments; and examples displaying the visual stylizations appropriate to the project

Part II: Preparing the film

Students will:

write a “shooting script” indicating scenes, shots, environments, characters, and, if necessary, dialogue.
create a storyboard of the film project.
translate the storyboard into a brief animatic indicating sound, timing, and any necessary edits.
plan out timing and animation for each scene.

Part III: Producing the film

Students will:

record dialogue and collect or record any required sound and music clips.
animate each scene in the method appropriate to their project (2D, drawn, digital, etc.).
upload and import their animated sequences and recordings into Adobe After Effects.
edit their projects, bringing audio and visual elements together and timing the film appropriately.
upload their films to YouTube or another video platform.
present their films to the class.