Animation Laboratory
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Classification |
Keyword |
CNAEF |
Design |
Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S
Cycles of Study/Courses
Teaching Staff - Responsibilities
Teaching language
Suitable for English-speaking students
Objectives
Animation practice deepening within the scope of conventional or experimental animation. Introduction to the basic rules of a animation film project: script, narrative, imaginary, characters and animated expression. Going through the three essential phases that characterize animation filmmaking: pre-production, production and post-production. Professional and artistic work contexts approaches, in the production of story-boards, animatics, character design, art direction and production maps. The student's should prove a creative attitude, critical consciousness of the potential and limits of the media used and the components of video-cinematography in animation expression. Animation being a collective work with a common objective, teamwork is encouraged and therefore the distribution of tasks; at the same time the sharing of efforts and individual creativity.
Learning outcomes and competences
Be able to understand and work though the three key stages of animation production: pre-production, production and direction, and post-production.
Working method
Presencial
Program
Several animation applications will be covered: author films, experimental animation, animation series, special effects, title credits, institutional ads, documentary. Project development emphasizing the production and post-production \ digital edition. The student will experience fundamental aspects in animation filmmaking: 1. Duration, movement, time and metamorphosis. 2. Technical and technological issues. Shooting in stop motion or frame by frame. Record and editing of video and audio. 3. Analysis of animation in video and cinema. Metamorphosis. The shot and continuity. Set design and lighting. Montage. Narrative structure (parallel, mosaic, linear and non-linear, synchronous and asynchronous). 4. Introduction to animation history. Viewing and analysis of different animation film techniques. The experience of the image-movement and the experience of the image-time. The visual narrative, filmic imagery and animated expression.
Mandatory literature
Gilbert, Wayne; Simplified Drawing for Planning Animation, Anamie, 1999
Purves, Barry J.C.; Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance, Focal Press, 2007
White, Tony; Animation from Pencils to Pixels: Classical Techniques for the Digital Animator, Focal Press, 2006
White, Tony; How to Make Animated Films: Tony White's Complete Masterclass on the Traditional Principals of Animation, Focal Press, 2009
Williams, Richard; The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet, Faber & Faber, 2002
Wright, Jean Ann; Animation Writing and Development: From Script Development to Pitch, Focal Press, 2005
Teaching methods and learning activities
Lectures deepening animation film language and history. Practice classes in which an author animation project is developed, and film production techniques are developed, namely: filming, film writing, editing, directing and production.
keywords
Humanities > Arts > Fine arts > Plastic arts
Humanities > Arts > Visual arts > Film studies
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation without final exam
Assessment Components
Designation |
Weight (%) |
Participação presencial |
30,00 |
Trabalho laboratorial |
70,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Designation |
Time (hours) |
Elaboração de projeto |
60,00 |
Frequência das aulas |
45,00 |
Trabalho laboratorial |
57,00 |
Total: |
162,00 |
Eligibility for exams
Effective participation in individual work and team work. Production of the project.
Calculation formula of final grade
Estimated average of all work undertaken. Effective participation.
Observations
In this discipline, it is understood that the student already has some experience in this field so he must go through pre-production, production and post-production with more autonomy and organizational skills.
The class cultural context may lead to classes with lectures in both languages: English and Portuguese. Discussion and project follow-up can take place in English and French.