Advanced Animation

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

• 4. Quality education
• 5. Gender equality
• 8. Decend work and economic growth
• 16. Peace, justice and strong institutions

Objectives

This subject aims to complete a narrative animation short, in which the student learns to develop a narrative story, generate initial ideas, create concept art , design storyboards and produce the final animation. In addition, the student learns to apply the appropriate visual style to the content to be communicated, thus reinforcing the knowledge acquired in previous subjects (Digital Animation, Fundamentals of Animation, 3D Modeling).

Learning outcomes

• Learn new techniques of artistic representation.
• Implements complex audiovisual projects.
• Develop creative and innovative communication interfaces.
• Acquire knowledge and improve your professional training.

Skills

General skills

• Combine scientific knowledge with technical skill and technological resources to deal with difficulties in professional practice.
• Desire to take part in lifelong learning, innovate, create value and acquire new knowledge.

Specific skills

• Design, model and animate 2D and 3D characters and environments through the use of digital tools.
• Organize, design and implement multimedia projects that ensure meeting prior specifications on the basis of needs and available resources.

Basic skills

• Students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have competencies typically demonstrated through drafting and defending arguments and solving problems in their field of study.

Core skills

• Become the protagonist of one's own learning process in order to achieve personal and professional growth and acquire all-round training for living and learning in a context of respect for linguistic, social, cultural, gender and economic diversity.
• Interact in international and worldwide contexts to identify needs and and new contexts for knowledge transfer to current and emerging fields of professional development, with the ability to adapt to and independently manage professional and research processes.

Content

1. Illustration and storyboard techniques
2. Advanced 2D and 3D animation techniques
3. Video rendering techniques

Evaluation

The subject is assessed continuously, mainly through face-to-face exercises and tutoring. Deliveries are scheduled in the Virtual Campus classroom.

The final assessment is obtained from the weighted average of the different activities planned during the course. The weighting is as follows:

• Final project: 50%
• Assessment tests: 30%
• Participation and monitoring: 10%
• Oral presentations: 10%

Projects are done individually, unless otherwise directed by the teacher. No recovery phase is foreseen.

Methodology

The sessions are practical and dynamic, with exercises that take place in the classroom in which the concepts and methods explained by the teachers are applied.

On the other hand, the teacher monitors all the practices that are carried out as the course progresses.

To ensure student learning, tutoring is personalized.

Bibliography

Key references

• Richard Williams (2009). The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators (3 ed.). Faber and Faber.

Further reading

Teachers will provide complementary bibliography and compulsory reading throughout the course via the Virtual Campus.