Art 263 Animation I (Section 1)

SCHEDULE

Professor Lee Crowe

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Office Hours By Appointment AC402: Mondays 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Please save all animation work as MOV files on a portable hard drive, Dropbox.com, CSUN Box, or Google Drive. Flash drives are acceptable for saving work but they are more corruptible and not recommended.

ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE AT THE START OF CLASS. Students may not work on assignments during critique. It’s important that you actively view your fellow classmates work and actively participate in critique. You can learn a lot this way! Please also refrain from doing other things during critique like being online or on your phone.

Please utilize the lab hours, which will be posted on the door, to do work outside of class. You may also work in the other animation lab, so make a note of those lab hours as well. If your assignment is not ready at the start of class, you may work on it later and show it later. Late work will lose grade points. See syllabus for info regarding submitting late work.

WEEK 1

Monday 1/25

  • Class overview, introductions, stop motion examples.
  • Historical screenings, discussion and lecture

Wednesday1/27

  • Homework: – Create a stop motion piece. Due in one week.
  • More stop motion examples; historical screenings

WEEK 2

Monday 2/1

  • Assignment 1: Twoflipbooks, due in one week. (You will be asked to film these later in the quarter, after the professor views them and returns them to you.)
  • Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
  • Work on Flipbooks if time allows.

Wednesday 2/3

  • Stop motion piece due.
  • Historical screenings,discussion and lecture
  • Work on Flipbooks if time permits.

WEEK 3

Monday 2/8

  • Assignment 1 due: Flipbooks
  • Discuss Assignment 2: Bouncing Ball animation.Due Wednesday 2/17.
  • Historical screenings if time allows

Wednesday2/10

  • Historical Screenings, discussion and lecture
  • Work on Bouncing Ball

WEEK 4

NO CLASS MONDAY 2/15 – PRESIDENT’S DAY

Wednesday2/17

  • Critique Assignment 2: Bouncing Ball
  • Discuss Assignment 3: Flag wave, duein two weeks
  • Homework: Spend at least an hour studying a real flag and doing quick sketches of the wave pattern. Fill up 8 pages in a sketchbook to show next class.
  • Historical Screenings if time allows

WEEK 5

Monday 2/22

  • Instructor will check sketchbooks for flag sketches
  • Work on flag wave
  • Historical screenings, discussion and lecture

Wednesday 2/24

  • Work on flag
  • Historical screenings, discussion and lecture

WEEK 6

Monday2/29

  • Work on Flag
  • Historical Screenings, discussion and lecture

Wednesday 3/2

  • Critique Assignment 3: Flag wave
  • Assignment 4: Biped walk, dueMonday March 14
  • Homework: Draw a simple “bean man” in several poses; fill at least two pages of your sketchbook; due next class.

WEEK 7

Monday 3/7

  • Review sketches
  • Work on bi-ped walk
  • Historical Screenings if time allows

Wednesday 3/9

  • Work on bi-ped walk
  • Historical Screenings,discussion and lecture

WEEK 8

Monday 3/14

  • Critique Assignment 4: Biped walk
  • Midterm quiz review

Wednesday 3/16

  • Midterm quiz – animation history covered up to this point

SPRING BREAK – NO CLASSES 3/21 OR 3/23

WEEK 9:

Monday 3/28

  • Homework 2: Resume, website, and cover letter, due 4/6
  • Historical screenings, discussion and lecture

Wednesday 3/30

  • Lecture on Action Analysis and The Twelve Principles of Animation

for Flour Sack animation.

  • Historical screenings, discussion and lecture

WEEK 10:

Monday 4/4

  • Assignment 5: Flour sack animation, due Wednesday 11/18.
  • Work on Flour sack
  • Historical Screenings if time allows

Wednesday 4/6

  • Resume, cover letter, and website due
  • Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
  • Work on Flour sack

WEEK 11:

Monday 4/11

  • Homework: film of flipbooks due in 2 weeks
  • Historical Screenings, discussion and lecture
  • Work on Flour sack

Wednesday 4/13

  • Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
  • Work on Flour sack

WEEK 12:

Monday 4/18

  • Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
  • Work on Flour sack

Wednesday 4/20

  • Critique Assignment 5: Flour sack
  • Historical Screeningsif time allows

WEEK 13:

Monday 4/25

  • Flipbook films due
  • Historical screenings, discussion and lecture

Wednesday4/27

  • Assignment 6: Group Project on the history of Global animation, due 12/2.(All group projects are due on this date even if you do not present on that day.) Decide world regions and divide into groups.
  • Historical screenings if time allows
  • Work on Group Projects

WEEK 14:

Monday 5/2

  • Historical screenings,discussion and lecture
  • Work on group project if time allows

Wednesday5/4

  • Final quiz review
  • Work on Group Projects

WEEK 15

Monday 5/9

  • Group project presentations

Wednesday 5/11

  • Group project presentations

EXAM WEEK

Monday 5/16 – 8:00 PM

  • Final exam–Animation history that was covered since midterm; the Twelve Principles.