Animation

Division:  Upper School

Department: Fine and Performing Arts:  Visual Arts 

Course Title/Code:  Animation     Art781, Art782, Art783   

(1 Trimester/ 5 periods per week)

This course is an advanced animation course that extends the methodologies learned in the Multimedia Production Technologies course. This class will require extensive independent work on projects culminating at the end of the trimester with a major video 2D or 3D animation that reinforces other academic or social aspects of the Cary Academy community. Students will work almost exclusively with Flash, Swift 3D, and LightWave which are 2D and 3D animation applications. Some minor work will be required in Premiere and AfterEffects. 

Prerequisite: This course is designed for students who either have completed the year-long Multimedia Production Technologies course or who are highly experienced with Flash, Premiere, and LightWave.

Grading: The class grade will be based on completion of project milestones and effort put into each project.

Projects: Projects will incorporate major modeling, animation, or composition using LightWave, Premiere, or After Effects. Projects will be reviewed and critiqued every two weeks. The projects will be completed by the making of a minimum 3-minute video that will also be converted into a streaming video to be placed on Cary Academy’s web site.  All projects will be placed in competition for the end of year Cary Academy Film Festival. Some of the areas that could be used as projects include the following:

• Animated Chess game
• Bowling with strange things
• Dominos
• Rubics cube
• South Park like characters
• Rube Goldberg machine
• Celshaded cartoons
• Baseball hat and shoes playing baseball (using models provided by LightWave )
• Roller coaster with multiple camera views.
• Fly thru a city skyline at night
• A billiards game using models provided by LightWave
• A 3D animation made with parts cut out of a 2D photo

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