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ANIMA-4040-3: Animation Tutorial: Advanced Visual Storytelling

Spring 2023

Subject: Animation
Type: Workshop
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: January 17, 2023 — May 07, 2023
Meetings: Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - 110 (Animation Computer Lab)
Instructor: David Meyers

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 8/8 Closed

Description:

Animation Tutorials are production workshops for advanced level animation students. Depending on the instructor, students will complete a sequence of animation exercises or one semester long project. Critiques will be conducted similar to studio dailies where the instructor gives the student production notes in order to improve their animation. Based on this assessment, it is the student's responsibility to improve their work. All advanced animation students who have completed Animation 2 are welcome.This course is an introduction to professional concepts, methods, and exercises used in Visual Storytelling. Lectures include translating a screenplay, staging characters within a frame more effectively, standard filming language and concepts, cinematography, storyboarding principles and feedback, improv for story ideas, character arcs and themes, showing not telling a story basics, and how to use editing to create the story more effectively.

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