Animation: A Practice

Subject guarantor:

Jan KLOS

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan KLOS

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Comprehend and learn to manipulate reverberation sensations. Experience the magic of „moving pictures“.

Mode of study:

Day 1.

- lecture on the principles of recording movement and various movement styles.

- examples of production processes of traditional drawn animated films ( that is a few various well done example of the technology).

- short film presentation (study material)

- creation of one's own written etude - drawing on an exciter lamp system: subject matter, balance, hand, pen, tracing paper

Day 2.

- recording the work on Linetest - individual students, one after another.

- closing discussions regarding usual discrepancies between beginning ideas and results.

- with instructor's „staff“ assistance (Dept. students of KP production) provides each participant a CD for their personal portfolio.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

No prior knowledge required.

Recommended optional programme components:

No prerequisites.

Course contents:

Prepare students some „difficult lessons“ (4-5 hours) focused on a drawers work, which with short lectures (fundamental information, 2 -3 hours) creates a „model“ of an animator's day.

Recommended or required reading:

- Composition „START“ (how long I can see contrasting information projected in 1/50 of a second.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lectures, short film presentations, recording Linetest exercises, discussions.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Traditional hand-drawn animation in the 4:3 format can time out simple movments - events - and image rhythm.

Credit is awarded for at least 4 hours of „respectable effort.“

Course web page:

Note:

Why draw for 5 hours maximum? It often happens that the untrained hand in long-term scribbling succumbs to tendon problems.

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animation - Master (faculty subject)
• Documentary Film - Bachelor (faculty subject)
• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (faculty subject)
• Film Directing - Bachelor (faculty subject)
• Cinematography - Bachelor (faculty subject)
• Production - Bachelor (faculty subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor (faculty subject)
• Editing - Bachelor (faculty subject)
• Sound Design - Bachelor (faculty subject)
• Photography CZ - Bachelor (faculty subject)