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ANIMA-4040-8: Animation Tutorial: Sculpture for Animation

Spring 2025

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

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: January 21, 2025 — May 12, 2025
Meetings: Sat 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 112
Instructor: Norman DeCarlo

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 2/16

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. All advanced animation students who have completed Animation 2 are welcome. Learn to design, build and sculpt three-dimensional clay maquettes as used in an animation studio setting. This class will discuss the purpose of character sculpting and its placement within the animation preproduction and production pipeline. Emphasis will be placed on basic principles of design such as balance, rhythm, contrast and harmony. This course will teach technique on how to build a clay model from the inside out; paying particular attention to the skeletal and musculature system. The goal of this class is to create unique and appealing clay-sculpted characters. An additional materials fee will be charged.

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