Course Overview
Experimenting with techniques for visual storytelling, structure, story building, writing for animation • Examining indigenous narratives, both contemporary and traditional to gain an understanding of storytelling methods pertinent to our culture • Creating dramatic flow, planning, pacing, sequencing, organizing visual flow and continuity in storyboards • Co-ordinating character, scene length, pace of action • Choreographing scene change and camera movement • Planning, examining, analyzing and pacing character behaviour • An exposure to various animation techniques • Workshops using both 2D and 3D techniques on Computer, Film, Video etc. • Production of professional stop-motion animation puppet and usable set props. • Understanding how a stop-motion animation production works • Sculpting, mould making, armature construction and casting techniques. • Methods to fabricate a stop-motion animation puppet • Techniques for set construction. • Doping, animating, lighting and shooting • Post production techniques.
| Total Credits | 6.0 |
| Type | Theory |
| Lecture | 2.0 |
| Tutorial | 2.0 |
| Half Semester | N |
| Text Reference | 302225 Robert Russett and Cecile Starr, Experimental Animation, Origins of a New Art A Da Capo Paperback, NY, 1998302225 Peter Lord and Brian Sibley, Cracking Animation 302226The Aardman book of 3D Animation, Thames and Hudson Ltd; 2 edition (25 Oct. 2010)302225 Richard Taylor, Encyclopedia of Animation Techniques, Book Sales, 2004302225 Michael Frierson, Clay Animation: American Highlights 1908 to Present, Twayne Publishers, February, 1994302225 Chris Patmore; The Complete Animation Course: The Principles, Practice, and Techniques of Successful Animation, Barron302222s Educational Series, 1st August, 2003302225 Frank Thompson, The Making of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Disney Editions, 2002302225 Peter Lord and Brian Sibley, Cracking Animation 302226The Aardman book of 3D Animation, Thames & Hudson, 2000References for scripting302225 Marilyn Webber, Gardner302222s Guide to Feature Animation Writing: The Writer302222s Road Map Garth Gardner Company, 2002302225 Jeffrey Scott, How to Write for Animation, Overlook Press, 2002302225 Marilyn Webber, Gardner302222s Guide to Animation Scriptwriting: The Writer302222s Road Map,302225 Garth Gardner Company, 2002302225 Jean Ann Wright, Animation Writing and Development: From Script Development to Pitch302225 (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation), Focal Press, 2005 |
About Instructor
Prof. Sumant Muralidhar Rao | Prof. Phani Prasad Rao Tetali
