Art Education Lessons:Cartooning & Animation

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Animation Syllabus

Objective: To prepare student for future studies in Media Arts and Animation. In this independent study the students will do advanced work in animation extremes and in-betweens. By the end of the school year the students will have created an animated short.

Software: Line Test Program, Flash, iMovie, After Effects, (possibly Animo or flipbook).

Text: Animation by Preston Blair, The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas by Richard Williams

_____ 100 pts: Character Designs & Development
_____ 100 pts: Film work and Animation interplay
_____ 100 pts: Animation Work (Walk Cycle-Loop, Body Motion, Line tests)
_____ 100 pts: Production work: Interpretation of the script, production of the piece.
_____ 100 pts: Critique
_____ 100 pts: Character Designs & Development
_____ 100 pts: Film work and Animation interplay
_____ 100 pts: Animation Work (Facial Expressions, Lip Synching, Line tests)
_____ 100 pts: Animation Work (Acting, Lip Synching with body motion)
_____ 100 pts: Production work: Interpretation of the script, production of the piece.
_____ 100 pts: Critique

_____ 800 pts: Animation in-betweens / extremes
_____ 200 pts: Background paintings and drawings
_____ 100 pts: Marketing (Poster design, etc)

Essay on the history of animation:

Build a complex timeline describing major developments in this focused study. Must include dates and information on major happening (i.e., sale of personal computers, major video game machines, software, and technology in animation). Use no quotes-only original writing.

Do a separate timeline of what you think will happen in the future. (i.e., [2070] First bio-virtual suits sold in Japan. German company, Rez-Tech, introduced 300 outfits that were offered to the public for $600,000 each. They sold out in 2 hours. Popular games dig dug and pac man were re-introduced as virtual reality games).