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Real-Time Animation and VFX

Create interactive real-time animation and visual effects using the latest in industry pioneering real-time rendering and fx simulation engines and interactive environment building software.

Animation Project Completion

Complete your final thesis project. Critiques from both the instructor and fellow classmates will improve your character animation abilities. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 891.)

Feature Animation 2

You will be guided through specialized assignments that focus on the artistry of animation. You’ll animate bipedal characters to push, pull, and throw, focusing on realistic movement, weight, and anticipation. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 697B.)

Traditional Animation Principles and Pipelines

Experience what it’s like to work as an assistant animator. To increase your ink and paint skills, you’ll learn digital and traditional tools to create a finished full color scene from rough animation.

Introduction to Rigging for Animators, Rigging

Learn character design and 3D character set-up for the animator. You’ll learn methodology and strategies to create readily revisable characters for maximum flexibility in a 3D environment.

Traditional Animation

To master the twelve principles of animation, you’ll learn its terminology and history and practice storyboarding and character forms.

Stop Motion

You’ll animate a stop motion puppet to better understand character expression, pantomime, and the process and principles of classic animation. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 380.)

Traditional Animation 2

Strengthen your knowledge of animation. Focusing on inbetweening, flipping properly, pencil pressure and consistency of drawing, you’ll learn simple character design, simple storyboards, and to use work sheets.

Stop Motion

You’ll animate a stop motion puppet to better understand character expression, pantomime, and the process and principles of classic animation. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 780.)

History and Techniques of VFX

Apply an historic knowledge of special effects techniques to contemporary visual effects and animation. You’ll study in-camera techniques, traditional stop motion, motion control, matte paintings, miniatures, computer-generated visual effects and animation, and compositing.