ILS 340 - Drawing for Animation

3 credit(s)
An intermediate-level course building on skills taught in Drawing for Illustration and introducing new concepts with an emphasis on animation principles. Focus of the course is on developing advanced sketching principles in preparation for clearly visualizing compositions and forms leading toward producing final illustrations for animation. Skills in perspective, proportion, and anatomy are reviewed and expanded through close examination of the human figure and its placement in space, the effect of various lighting situations, and the rendering of costumes, props, and surroundings. Projects involve the construction of sets, models, and imagined scenes as reference for fully realized drawings. Hand-drawn 2-D animation is introduced and explored through a variety of assignments analyzing the movement of objects in space and drawn in preparation for animation. Maquettes are built to investigate character design and to aid in understanding the third dimension in preparation for stop-motion animation.
Prerequisite(s): ILS 210 and ILS 220, or permission of instructor.

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