EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION (PRACTICAL)

Paper Code: 
BMA 214
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
6
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives: This course will enable the students to

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):

Course 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.

 

Exercise and execution based on difference types of animation techniques:

1.     Traditional animation

18 hrs

2.     Typography Animation

18 hrs

3.     Clay animation

18 hrs

4.     Sand Animation

18 hrs

5.     Flip book Animation

18 hrs

6.     Stop-motion animation

18 hrs

 

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  • Tom Gasek, “Frame by Frame Stop Motion: Non Traditional Approaches to Stop Motion Animation”, Taylor & Francis, 2013.
  • Richard Taylor, “Encyclopedia of Animation Techniques”, New Burlington Books, 2002
REFERENCES: 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

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

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Academic Year: 
2022-23
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