Animation

IAI animation track requirement

Prerequisite: 1 year of Drawing & Painting (or equivalent portfolio with instructor’s approval)

This course is for students who want to develop skills in animation. Using the foundations of drawing, students will develop storyboards and design characters and worlds that come to life. Students will cover animation basics of storytelling, movement, timing, key frames, walk cycles and developing personality. Students will begin with stop motion animation and rotoscoping and move into Adobe Premier for the bulk of the course. Students will consider how moving images have the power to transport the viewer to imaginary worlds and transform culture.