These projects will be 20-60 seconds long. Students are not expected to enter the course with any drawing skills, so grading will not be based on the quality of the drawings. Instead, consideration will be given to the quality of motion, the understanding of the principles and the ability to make the assignments expressive. Students will be expected to work and rework assignments in order to improve them. This is a beginning course that would be suitable for undergraduate and graduate students.
Animation is labor intensive.
Homework will be required each week. In a manner analogous to medical imaging techniques which allow for the remote examination of the body's interior in real time, students in this course will construct creative, time-based three dimensional visualizations of information, ideas or sensations that are usually beyond direct sensory perception. Drawing I, Collage, or Inscription Technologies. The group will be chosen to strike an overall balance between students with a fine arts background and those with a technical background in 3D modeling or programming. The course is the third and final element in the year long sequence of 3D modeling, animation, and narrative courses, in which students produce full screen, multiple character, short CG animation.