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ANIMA-4040-7: Tutorial: Advanced Animation 3D Tips & Tricks

Fall 2020

Subject: Animation
Type: Workshop
Delivery Mode: Online
Level: Undergraduate

Course Dates: September 02, 2020 — December 15, 2020
Meetings: Mon 7:15-10:15PM
Instructor: Andreas Procopiou

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 6/8

Description:

Online course sections will be delivered mostly asynchronously, with some synchronous components that will be outlined in the course syllabus if applicable. All class work can be completed remotely, your instructor will work with you to ensure that you have the necessary tools and resources. 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 class builds upon skills and concepts from Animation 1 and Animation 2, and focuses on using staging, posing, spacing, and arcs to create more nuanced, refined, and authentic character performance. We will explore how analysis of inner emotional development and motivation can be expressed clearly with physical action and organic poses; how external activities can be performed so the audience can "read", or relate to inner emotions and character development. We will also continue to enhance production skills, especially developing faster blocking and posing passes to communicate and refine ideas in a production environment. Group critiques will develop your cinema vocabulary, collaboration skills, and how to express your opinions clearly. The classroom will be treated much like a studio, where animators are given goals to achieve by the following class.

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