MACA 2250 - Compositing & 2D Animatics

Credit Hours: 4.00

Objectives:

1. Conceptualize visual ideas.
2. Create story concepts.
3. Create thumbnails.
4. Plan temporal connections.
5. Illustrate rough layouts.
6. Produce color comps.
7. Render a final product.
8. Animate objects in a 2-D environment.
9. 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

1. Sketching.
2. Acrylic painting.
3. PhotoShop.
4. Illustrator.
5. After Effects.
6. 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:

1. Produce traditional storyboards
2. Transfer sequential art to a digital environment.
3. Produce a finished product within designated timelines.
4. 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.
5. Successfully prepare artwork for print or web and create a printed presentation for the class.
6. Present thorough sequences with consistency.
7. Produce animated characters with sip-sync voice-overs.
8. Render high quality files for DVD and web presentation.

• Communication: The graduate can communicate effectively for the intended purpose and audience.
• Critical Thinking: The graduate can make informed decisions after analyzing information or evidence related to the issue.
• Global Literacy: The graduate can analyze human behavior or experiences through cultural, social, political, or economic perspectives.
• Information Literacy: The graduate can responsibly use information gathered from a variety of formats in order to complete a task.
• Quantitative Reasoning: The graduate can apply quantitative methods or evidence to solve problems or make judgments.
• Scientific Literacy: The graduate can produce or interpret scientific information presented in a variety of formats.

1. Introduction/class foundation lecture
2. Story Ideation and Development
3. Storyboard/Concept Mechanics
4. Lab development
5. Adobe Illustrator Digital Art creation/finalizing animation plot and characters
6. 2D Animation Techniques: Color and Mood/Movement and Pace
7. 2D Animation Techniques: Adobe After Effects animation concepts/skills
8. Lab development
9. Pre-visualization: use of animation “dailies/roughs” for timing/pre-development
10. Digital Assets Development: scene backdrops/sound effects/voiceovers/special effects
11. Lab development
12. Post-visualization: Animation class critique/review
13. Lab development
14. Post-visualization: revision process development
15. Final review*
16. Utilized as a “float” week at instructor’s discretion to incorporate extra “lab development” time