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4.00 Credits
This project-centered course engages students in non-narrative, alternative aspects of video and digital production. Students develop an aesthetic that explores, challenges, extends, or subverts mainstream narrative or documentary structures. Topics include camera experimentation and image manipulation; development of personal, political, or social themes; and distribution and marketing of experimental work. 4 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 24-2910 PRODUCTION III
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4.00 Credits
This project-centered course stimulates and assists students in the creation of an alternative film, video, or digital work. Students will employ an aesthetic that explores, challenges, or subverts mainstream narrative or documentary structures. The class builds on topics from Experimental Production I, including camera experimentation and image manipulation as well as the development of personal, political, or social themes. Festivals, distribution, and marketing of experimental film and video will also be emphasized. The class will produce a show at the end of the semester. 4 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 24-2560 SHORT FORMS IN FILM & VIDEO, 24-2900 HISTORY OF VIDEO AND DIGITAL ART, 24-2910 PRODUCTION III, 24-3915
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4.00 Credits
Students learn how to combine their existing skills and develop new ones in digital video production, computer animation, image manipulation, and digital editing. In this project-oriented class students learn to synthesize several media elements on a computer to produce an original work for display on the internet. Instruction emphasizes basic programming techniques as well as artistic and commercial applications of multimedia. 4 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 24-2910 PRODUCTION III
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4.00 Credits
As an introduction to basic film animation techniques for persons with little or no animation production experience, this course will explore basic animation techniques including object, drawn, and 3-dimensional, including concept development, storyboarding, and final production techniques. Animated films and videos, both domestic and international, will be screened and discussed. You will be expected to complete short exercises in each of the techniques mentioned, then complete a 10-second final project from storyboard to final shooting onto film. 4 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 WRITING AND RHETORIC I
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Directed Studies are learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in the development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade. 1-3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 26-1000 ANIMATION I, COMPLETED APPLICATION AND DEPARTMENT APPROVAL
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on establishing a thorough understanding of the traditional animation production process, from storyboard creation to final shooting. In class exercises will explore both analog and digital equipment and terminology used in the process, as well as the procedure for exposure sheeting camera and compound moves culminating on the completion of a 20-second lip-sync animated film shot on a LunchBox Sync DV . The recording and editing of dialogue and sound effects will be an integral part of the process. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 26-1000 ANIMATION I
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce the beginning student to the three 3-dimensional computer animation applications that they will be studying in future semesters: Maya, XSI, and 3D-Studio Max. Concepts, relationships between concept and technical skills, and the need to understand the historical development of 3-dimensional computer animation will be emphasized. Exercises will highlight application similarities and differences, while showing that the process becomes increasingly familiar as each application is explored. 4 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 35-1300 DIGITAL IMAGE DEVELOPMENT
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3.00 Credits
Through this drawing-intensive course, you will acquire an understanding of figurative human emotions and movements, enabling you to create believable animated characters. You will create model sheets, learn the principles of animation, and learn how to endow your characters with believable actions and acting. Digital pencil testing will allow for the building of the animation from basic motion to more refined movements and emotion. Particular attention will be given to timing, layout, the creation of extreme drawings, and the process of inbetweening. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 26-1000 ANIMATION I
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3.00 Credits
The objective of this course is to explore alternative approaches to the normally highly structured, technically oriented process of creating an animated film. You will be expected to be curious and imaginative as you are introduced to unorthodox approaches including sand, pastels, drawing directly on film stock, paint-on-glass, and other techniques. You will also view and discuss films created by non-mainstream artists/animators such as Len Lye, Norman McLaren, and others, which will introduce you to highly graphic and imaginative movement and messages. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 26-3040 ANIMATION STORYBOARD AND CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
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3.00 Credits
In this class, you will gain a basic understanding of threedimensional animation using armatures, puppets, and objects. With the use of a Video Lunchbox, you will investigate the nature of human movement, and cover topics such as timing, weight, exaggeration, composition, lighting, and narrative approaches. You will also become familiar with various materials and tools as you explore ways to create characters and simple scenery. A variety of stop-motion films, spanning a wide range of genres, will be viewed and discussed. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 26-1000 ANIMATION I
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