Course Description
Summary
This course will begin with essential animation techniques that have lasted more than a century: key frames, movement arcs, and easing. With hand drawn animation, we will design phenakistiscopes and weaving loops in order to get acquainted with the mechanics of animation. Examples of different techniques will be discussed in class for inspiration.
Through weekly assignments, we will practice hand drawn animation, replacement animation, paper puppets and cutouts, and rotoscoping. Students will learn to capture their work using Dragonframe, and move on into Adobe software for assembly and editing.
