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Sep 08, 2024
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Spring 2024 Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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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 Repeatable: No Grade Type: Regular 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.
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