CMT 2103 – 2D and 3D Animation

Week 1, Week 2, Week 3

• Module guide
• Project Brief
• Week 1 – Introduction To Animation
• Week 2 – Traditional and Modern Animation
• Week 3 – Animation Principle
• History of Animation Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBeQfJ7MBU
• History of Animation Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuzGsXzbG0M
• History of Animation Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuHnJozhYYM
• 12 Principle of Animation 1 (Link)
• Animation research activity – Search for animation assets, model sheets, and character design.  Get some idea by sketching and mind mapping to get clear with your animation.
• Folio – Animation definition (from your point of view)

Week 4

• Animation Production (Dropbox link)
• Computer Animation Role Definition (link)
• Inspired 3D Short Film Production: Production Planning (link), Example of Animation Flow Chart by Jung-Ho Kim’s Venice Beach.

Week 5

• Storyboarding and Scripting (Dropbox link)
• Story boarding for Animation (Youtube)
• Watch VLOG1 to VLOG6 how to create animated short by Rubberonion studio

Week 7

• Intro to 3D (Dropbox link)
• See Web References in Animation and make further research in Project 1(a)

Week 8

• 3D Processes (Dropbox link)
• Rendering in computer graphics (Wikipedia)
• Using ray-traces 3D renderer (Video2brain)

Week 9

•  Animation Special Effects (Dropbox)
• Character Rigging, Deformations, and Simulations in Film and Game Production (PDF)
• Rigging Characters in Animation (PDF)
• 3D Texture (PDF)
• Computer Animation and Special Effects  (PDF Slide)

Week 10

• Web Animation (Dropbox)
• We Choose the Moon
• Waterlife
• Animated GIF
• Dynamic HTML

Week 11

• Digital Animation (Dropbox)
• Digital Animation (Wikipedia)

Week 12

• Animation Compression (Dropbox)
• Progress Presentation

Week 13

• Animation Tools and Software (Dropbox)

Week 14

• Pre-XAD – Group Presentation