EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION

Paper Code: 
BMA 214
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to

  1. Create vibrant and enthusiastic environment wherein students are guided through a multitude of experimental animation techniques to develop more diverse animation skills.

Course Outcomes (COs):

Learning Outcomes

 (at course level)

 

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Students will  :

CO56.      Correlate and assess old vs. new experimental animation techniques to device new techniques.

 

CO57.      Compose new experimental animation using various materials and methods.

 

CO58.      Adapt and mix new techniques to compose sequential thumbnails for films and advertisements.

 

CO59.      Design and build  advanced stop motion animation films & advertisements.

 

CO60.      Build animation projects using methods of innovative visual concepts.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Audio visual aids, Presentations, Creative thinking exercises.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Creating experimental shorts.

Assessment Strategies

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects, Consultancy projects.

 

 

CONTENTS


 

Exercise and execution based on difference types of animation techniques:

  1. Traditional animation [No. of Hrs. 18]
  2. Typography Animation [No. of Hrs. 18]
  3. Clay animation [No. of Hrs. 18]
  4. Sand Animation [No. of Hrs. 18]
  5. Flip book Animation [No. of Hrs. 18]
  6. Stop-motion animation [No. of Hrs. 18]
ESSENTIAL READINGS: 

  1. Richard Taylor, “Encyclopedia of Animation Techniques”, New Burlington Books, 2002.

  2. Tom Gasek, “Frame by Frame Stop Motion: Non Traditional Approaches to Stop Motion Animation”, Taylor & Francis, 2013

 

REFERENCES: 

Tony White, “Animation from Pencils to Pixels: Classical Techniques for Digital Animators”, Taylor & Francis, 2006.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-22
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