This course is an introduction to applied communication, with particular emphasis on the development of speaking, listening, reading, writing and thinking skills. The language skills developed in this course are useful to students in college courses as well as in the workplace. This course introduces the basic techniques of movement. Dance, theatre, and mime techniques are explored and imagination is developed through theatre games and skits. Choreographs are studied and composed as are techniques which allow character development to be revealed through movement.
Assignments involve the use of drawings plus acting in skits.
This course allows students to advance to more complex forms of animation. This course advances into a more detailed study of the anatomy of humans and animals. Students learn to draw figures in motion. The focus is on perspective figure drawing, gestures, and detailed studies. This course continues to develop the drawing skills acquired in ANI1514.