Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the global history of animation.
2. Distinguish different forms and techniques in animation practice.
3. Engage in animation history from the form’s emergence in the early twentieth century to the most recent achievements in the field.
4. Understand principles germane to the illusion of movement.
5. Investigate topics of interest within animation studies, from formal and aesthetic perspectives to social, cultural, and political ones.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Devise research methods informed by understanding of material animation techniques.
2. Develop skills in fundamental techniques of material animation.
3. Engage in animation criticism informed by historical knowledge and exposure to the most recent achievements in the field.
4. Understand techniques and principles germane to the illusion of movement.
5. Investigate topics of interest within animation practice.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Work with a large team in committees to curate a small film festival from start to finish.
2. Communicate in a professional manner with invited artists and audiences.
3. Design and execute a public event, including marketing materials, in collaboration with a group.
4. Develop community engagement opportunities through targeted outreach initiatives.
5. Manage technical aspects of collecting and preparing works for public screening.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of animated film in terms of key directors, studios, films, themes, and animation techniques.
2. Analyze animated feature films from social, historical, ideological, formal perspectives.
3. Identify and compare trends in animation from different studios and different historical and geographic contexts.
4. Recognize and apply key concepts in the historical and theoretical study of animation.
5. Understand contemporary debates about animation and children’s popular culture and formulate original arguments and interpretations.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Design digital drawing projects to express original visual ideas.
2. Manipulate line, colour, and shape to convey design concepts, emotions, or narratives.
3. Apply knowledge of art-historical precedents to build upon a tradition of drawing.
4. Analyze their own and one another’s drawing projects, to determine potential solutions to visual problems.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze animated films with attention to technical processes and social and historical contexts.
2. Evaluate the aesthetic possibilities unique to animation and use them to make moving-image media.
3. Apply technical skills in a variety of 2D animation methods to create short animated sequences.
4. Synthesize specific interests within the field of independent animation to develop a personal visual style.
5. Apply traditional frame-by-frame animation skills with control over timing and spacing.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop critical writing skills from course literature.
2. Produce a research-based essay.
3. Co-organize and deliver a seminar based upon given and student-researched material.
4. Analyze and discuss animation works within the context of their production.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Configuring project settings and devices used for 3D sculpting.
2. Managing workflows: software fundamentals (examining a variety of software tools and their differences and commonalities), media management (merging objects, autosave settings, file size, render settings).
3. Ability to create 3D content: box modeling, 3D sculpting, titles, shapes, characters, basic animation and key frame manipulation.
4. Rigging 3D Models: creating a joint system to create a PLA (point level animation) necessary for augmented reality and virtual reality, spline animation.
5. Making use of procedural animations such as Pose Morph, Deformers, Xpresso, Mograph effects in Cinema 4D.
6. Integrate audio: reactive sound, sound design, foley, score, dialogue editing, sound mixing.
7. Implement a wide variety of post-production and SFX techniques: colour correction, compositing effects, adding/creating CG elements.
8. Integrating motion-captured data with rigged characters.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand animation’s complex status within the broader landscape of film and media through engagement with contemporary debates in animation studies and classroom dialogue.
2. Gain familiarity with the variety of cultures surrounding animated media through professional networking and experiential learning opportunities in the animation industry, festival circuit, and contemporary art venues.
3. Develop specific technical skills in traditional animation, 2D and 3D digital animation, and interactive technologies, through rigorous practice in filmmaking, multi-modal art-making and other forms of artistic inquiry employing specialised animation techniques and tools.
4. Engage in critical self-reflection and peer-critique through dialogue and writing, in an environment that encourages the use animation as a platform for discussion among peers.
5. Interrogate issues pertinent to the social context of animation production, such as labour conditions, economic contexts, transnational exchanges, race and gender representation and authorship through reading and analysis of animation history and studies texts.
6. Gain awareness of current and developing criticisms of established norms in the field, through reflective engagement with reclaimative and political artworks by next-generation, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ voices in contemporary independent animation.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Distinguish between a variety of animation styles and techniques.
2. Use a digital animation program competently.
3. Plan a technical workflow from start to finish.
4. Plan a narrative or experimental work through storyboarding and preliminary testing.
5. Explain aesthetic, theoretical, and social issues in one's own work and the work of others.
6. Implement strategies for sound-image synchronization.
7. Understand file specs and delivery issues such as video compression, frame rate, and resolution.