This is a hands-on animation course that will provide a foundation for future work in Computer Graphics, Digital Art and Animation. Students will experiment with the techniques, tools, principles and methods of traditional animation. This course will provide insight into why some animation seems so alive, the art of storytelling over time, and some basic methods for creating interesting motion and characters. Through lectures, hands-on exercises, motion analysis and screenings, students will learn about a variety of animation techniques and gain a basic control of timing, spacing, weight and expressive motion. At the end of the quarter, each student will have a short reel of their work plus a new insight into the art of animation.
Animation is a labor-intensive process.
Students must be prepared to work hard, think creatively, refine and rework projects, exercise their imaginations and put in a good deal of time outside of class. Her films and the films she has worked on have won numerous awards and been screened across the United States and internationally. She has taught animation and film production at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, the Rhode Island School of Design and San Francisco State. Since moving back to the Bay Area from NY four years ago, Ms. Loeb has been working as an animation consultant at Interval Research in Palo Alto, in addition to directing and animating several commercials. She was also Animation Director on Making Tutti, an hour-long documentary with animation, which was nominated for an Emmy and aired on PBS nationally.