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ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN PRAGUE

Animation: A Practice

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
309POA Z 1 16/S Czech winter
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.“

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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 2014/2015:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:
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The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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