MACA 2250 - Compositing & 2D Animatics

Credit Hours: 4.00

Prerequisites: MACA 1160, MACA 1200, and MACA 1900

MACA 2250 develops a stylized sequential animatic from concept to completion, using both traditional and digital techniques in a 2D environment. Students create and design a script, storyboards, and character style sheets in concept form, which they then digitize and illustrate for the purpose of animating in 2D form on the computer.

Location: South Campus

Contact Hours: 6
Billable Contact Hours: 6

OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES
Outcome 1: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to design, create, and execute an animatic.

Objectives:

Conceptualize visual ideas.
Create story concepts.
Create thumbnails.
Plan temporal connections.
Illustrate rough layouts.
Produce color comps.
Render a final product.
Animate objects in a 2-D environment.
Utilize sound effects to enhance the animatic.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to produce animation-ready artwork and graphics in a vector application.

Objectives: Students will utilize such tools as

Sketching.
Acrylic painting.
PhotoShop.
Illustrator.
After Effects.
Use and enhance RGB color transition.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to develop character and story into a working digital animated clip.

Objectives: Students will:

Produce traditional storyboards
Transfer sequential art to a digital environment.
Produce a finished product within designated timelines.
In delivering criticism of other’s work, be considerate and focus the discussion on items over which the person has control. Respond non-defensively to criticism of one’s own work received from others.
Successfully prepare artwork for print or web and create a printed presentation for the class.
Present thorough sequences with consistency.
Produce animated characters with sip-sync voice-overs.
Render high quality files for DVD and web presentation.

COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES
(Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)

1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.

2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.

3. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.

4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.

The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.

COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
Week Topic

Introduction/class foundation lecture
Story Ideation and Development
Storyboard/Concept Mechanics
Lab development
Adobe Illustrator Digital Art creation/finalizing animation plot and characters
2D Animation Techniques: Color and Mood/Movement and Pace
2D Animation Techniques: Adobe After Effects animation concepts/skills
Lab development
Pre-visualization: use of animation “dailies/roughs” for timing/pre-development
Digital Assets Development: scene backdrops/sound effects/voiceovers/special effects
Lab development
Post-visualization: Animation class critique/review
Lab development
Post-visualization: revision process development
Final review*
Utilized as a “float” week at instructor’s discretion to incorporate extra “lab development” time

Primary Faculty
Sheehan, Shawn
Secondary Faculty

Associate Dean
Hinrichsen, Timothy
Dean
Hutchison, Donald

Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088