Animation: A Practice
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 309POA | Z | 1 | 16S | Czech | winter |
Subject guarantor
Name of lecturer(s)
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.
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.
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.“
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 2018/2019:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor-1819 (required subject)
- Film Directing_Bachelor-1718 (required subject)
- Documentary Film - Bachelor - 1819 (required subject)
- Cinematography - Bachelor - 1819 (required subject)
- Production - Bachelor-1819 (required subject)
- Editing - Bachelor-1819 (required subject)
- Photography CZ - Bachelor - 1819 (required subject)
- Sound Design - Bachelor-1819 (required subject)
- Animation - Bachelor - 1718 (required subject)
- Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor - 1819 (required subject)