Course Title: 2D Animation
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2007
Course Code: COSC5165L
Course Title: 2D Animation
School: 345T Creative Media
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6048 - Advanced Diploma of Multimedia
Course Contact : Josiane Meuller
Course Contact Phone: 99254585
Course Contact Email:josiane.mueller@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Course Contact: Nicole McKinnon
Course Contact Phone: 99254375
Course Contact Email: nicole.mckinnon@rmit.edu.auNominal Hours: 45
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
This semester long course covers skills required for thorough grounding in the principles of 2D animation. It also covers the covers the creation of 2D animation for a range of multimedia platforms and functions.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
CUFIMA03A Create 2D digital animation |
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CUFIMA03A/01 Identify animation requirements |
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CUFIMA03A/02 Identify scope of 2D animation software |
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CUFIMA03A/03 Product key drawings for animation |
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CUFIMA03A/04 Produce 2D animation |
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CUFIMA03A/05 Evaluate animation |
National Element Code & Title: |
ICPMM61DA Prepare Multimedia For Different Platforms |
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ICPMM61DA/01 Identify and describe multimedia delivery techniques |
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ICPMM61DA/02 Prepare data for multimedia platforms |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
Teacher guided instruction, class exercises, group projects, presentations, excursions, online research, simulated workplace activities and individual assignments
Teaching Schedule
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Week Commencing<o:p></o:p> |
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1<o:p></o:p> |
09.07.07<o:p></o:p> |
Introduction & history Examples of animation.<o:p></o:p> |
2<o:p></o:p> |
16.07.07<o:p></o:p> |
The bouncing ball – easing in & out, squash and stretch<o:p></o:p> |
3<o:p></o:p> |
23.07.07<o:p></o:p> |
Work on letter bounce and Present pencil test<o:p></o:p> Examples of morph animations<o:p></o:p> Assignment 01 Letter bounce pencil test<o:p></o:p> Examples of morph animations<o:p></o:p> |
4<o:p></o:p> |
30.07.07<o:p></o:p> |
Work on Morphing Assignment<o:p></o:p> |
5<o:p></o:p> |
06.08.07<o:p></o:p> |
Present Post–it Note Morph<o:p></o:p> Assignment 02<o:p></o:p> Post–it Note Morph due <o:p></o:p> |
6<o:p></o:p> |
13.08.07<o:p></o:p> |
Devising a character design<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> |
7<o:p></o:p> |
20.08.07<o:p></o:p> |
Present character designs<o:p></o:p> Assignment 03 Character designs due this week<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> |
8<o:p></o:p> |
27.08.07 <o:p></o:p> |
Present walk cycles. Observing and interpreting movement.<o:p></o:p> |
9<o:p></o:p> |
03.09.07<o:p></o:p> |
Assignment 04 Pencil tests due <o:p></o:p> Continue working on walk cycles<o:p></o:p> |
10<o:p></o:p> |
10.09.07<o:p></o:p> |
Assignment 04 Final walk cycle due<o:p></o:p> |
11<o:p></o:p> |
17.09.07<o:p></o:p> |
Lip Synch and analyising audio<o:p></o:p> Assignment 5 – Lip synch and audio analysis <o:p></o:p> In class exercise due end of class<o:p></o:p> |
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24.09.07<o:p></o:p> |
Mid-semester break<o:p></o:p> |
12<o:p></o:p> |
01.10.07<o:p></o:p> |
A look at Flash for animating<o:p></o:p> Using Flash to animate & Flash animation<o:p></o:p> |
13<o:p></o:p> |
08.10.07<o:p></o:p> |
Work on the lip synch<o:p></o:p> |
14<o:p></o:p> |
15.10.07<o:p></o:p> |
Work on the lip synch<o:p></o:p> Assignment 06 lip synch due<o:p></o:p> |
15<o:p></o:p> |
22.10.07<o:p></o:p> |
Key drawings and in betweens analysing movement<o:p></o:p> |
16<o:p></o:p> |
29.10.07<o:p></o:p> |
Studio week for 1<sup>st</sup> years<o:p></o:p> |
17<o:p></o:p> |
05.11.07<o:p></o:p> |
Work on movement or action.<o:p></o:p> Assignment 07 movement due this <o:p></o:p> |
18<o:p></o:p> |
12.11.07<o:p></o:p> |
Presentation week<o:p></o:p> |
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Last day of Semester 2: Fri 16.11.07.<o:p></o:p> |
Occasionally to accommodate the principles of flexible learning, minor adjustments may be made to this schedule. Check the course website here:
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Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
No other resources are required but check with the teacher for any optional resources.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment takes the form of six practice-based assignments involving creative response to a brief. Students will design and execute digital animation for a range of different multimedia platforms.
Assessment Tasks
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Assignment 01<o:p></o:p> Letter bounce pencil test<o:p></o:p> |
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Use the first letter of you name to bounce, squash and stretch. Do it very roughly in pencil. Scan it in as grey scale and put it into the computer program. Use between 10 to 12 drawings, think for a way that you might turn it into a cycle. Use tracing paper or post-it notes. <o:p> </o:p> This will be presented as a rough “pencil test”. A pencil test is the rough version that an animator does to make sure the movement is working well. |
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Assignment 02<o:p></o:p> Post–it Note Morph <o:p></o:p> |
Create a morphing animation using 30 – 40 post-it note pages. Coloured in Photoshop, constructed in Flash with music and sound effects. |
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Assignment 03<o:p></o:p> Character Designs<o:p></o:p> |
Devise appropriate characters for animation. |
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Assignment 04<o:p></o:p> Walk cycle assignment<o:p></o:p> |
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Part 1: a pencil test of the walk cycle Part 2: final walk cycle that includes coloured walk cycle, with background music and sound effects. <o:p> </o:p> |
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Assignment 05<o:p></o:p> Lip synch and audio analysis<o:p></o:p> |
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Class based exercise. Getting a character to talk. <o:p> </o:p> |
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Assignment 06<o:p></o:p> Lip synch <o:p></o:p> |
Your character must speak a minimum on 7 words. The animation must include appropriate background. |
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Assignment 07<o:p></o:p> Movement assignment <o:p></o:p> |
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Your character must move. Include appropriate background and audio. <o:p> </o:p> |
Assessment Matrix
Not applicable
Other Information
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