Animation II M

Unit 1: Professional Responsibility

• First week procedures

• Copyright, Fair Use, Plagiarism, and Cyber Safety

• File Management

Unit 2: Pre Production:

• 90 Second animation project

• Review storytelling

• Script Writing Review

• Character Design

• Concept Art

• Storyboard Animatics

Unit 3: Production

• Project management

• File formats & cross-platform compatibility

• Software techniques

• Rendering for animation

• Sound Design and Voice    

Unit 4: Post-Production

• Editing for animation

• Finish 90 second animation

Unit 5: 3D Modeling and Animation

• 3d vs 2d

• Autodesk Maya Intro

• Modeling Techniques

• Basic Animation and rendering

• 3D Walk Cycle

Unit 6: Character Setup

• Bones and IK

• Controls

• Skin weights

Unit 7: Materials 

• Creating textures and materials

• Material Nodes

• Texture Mapping

Fall CCA

Unit 8: Lighting and Rendering

• Adding lights

• Rendering scenes with different settings

Unit 6: Visual Effects

• Concept artist

• Technical Director

• Animator

• Pipeline

• Visual Development

• Lighting

• Software Dev

• Explore a role project (3 wks)

Unit 7: Professional Preparedness

• Soft skills

• succeeding in a studio environment

• Freelancing - being your own boss

• Mock Interview

Unit 8: Capstone (9 wks)

• propose a group or individual project

• Use pre, production, post timeline for completion

• Documenting process for portfolio

• Completed work comprehensive to previous units

Spring CCA

Required Project:

90 second short Pre Production- literature

• groups will go through the animation process from concept to execution. This is a multi-stage project:

◦ proposal

◦ pre-production

◦ animation progress

◦ final

Required Project:

• 90 second short post-production

• Technical challenge - self directed focus on a technology aspect of animation (rendering, environments, rigging, etc)

Required Project:

• Explore a role: create a project that would be an example of someone in the job

• Coding for Animation: using actionscript, create a procedural animation

• Mock interview

Required Project:

• Mock interviews

• Final project - group or individual, choice

Additional Activities:

Professional practices and communication, group critique, Adobe Animate training, Guest speaker (possible)

Additional Activities: 

group critique, contest submission, working with audio, character performance, Guest speaker (possible)

Additional Activities:

group critique, Guest speaker (possible), UIL

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-Professionalism

-Teamwork

-Problem Solving

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-Communication Skills

-Self Management Skill

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-Civic and Social Responsibility

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