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ACT550 - Advanced Acting for Animators

The focus of this course is to create a working knowledge that is fully applicable to the realities of working in the animation industry.  Focus is given to analysis of their own and other student's work. Using film examples, both live action and animation, students will study the good, the bad and the embarrassing to create characters, and scenes that are moving and connected to an audience.

Pre-requisite: ACT 450

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ANI501 - Advanced Animation Principles

In this subject the student will explore the basic principles of animation and movement through a series of practical assignments. The principles will include squash and stretch, timing and motion, anticipation, action, reaction, overlapping action, slo-in and slo-out, arcs, exaggeration, appeal, timing charts and exposure sheets. The student will take the principles learned in this course and apply them in 3D.

Pre-requisite: ANI 400

Co-requisites: ANI 524, ANI 504, CHR 531, STR 500 and LAY 511

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ANI502 - Advanced Life Drawing

This course will provide the student with a sound knowledge of observational drawing skills. Its primary focus will be structural drawing, which will introduce students to human anatomy. For the length of the course, a portion of every class will be devoted to gesture drawing followed by a short anatomy lecture on various areas of the skeleton. Joint articulation will be stressed. There will also be a brief discussion on the dynamics of structural drawing, which will be assisted by historical images.

Pre-requisite: LIF441

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ANI504 - Advanced Lighting: Texturing and Rendering

In this course the student will be introduced to the principles involved in lighting, texturing and rendering in Maya. Emphasis will be placed on creating proper polygonal UV layouts and on creating photo-real renderings. Only Maya lights, materials and the software render will be used during this course.

Pre-requisite: ANI 400

Co-requisite: ANI 501, ANI 524, CHR 531, STR 500 and LAY 511

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ANI512 - Storyboarding for the 3D Environment

In this subject, the student will be introduced to the various cameras in Maya and how they function.
In addition, the student will learn about how the Maya camera resembles live action cameras in terms of depth of field, focus and motion blur. The student will see examples from films to demonstrate concepts like time compression, time expansion, various types of camera moves, cutting on action, etc. The student will perform a series of exercises with the Maya cameras and will storyboard and pre-visualize an animation based on content supplied by the instructor.

Pre-requisite: STR 400

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ANI521 - Basic 3D Modeling

In this subject the student will be introduced to the principals involved in modeling in Maya. A variety of modeling techniques for creating both organic and hard surface models in both polygonal and NURBs surfaces will be explored. Students will create a series of models culminating with the creation of characters, props and environments for their final production.

Pre-requisite: ANI 400
Co-requisites: ANI 501, ANI 524 and ANI 531

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ANI524 - Advanced Animation Tools

This course teaches the tools and principles necessary to create advanced motion for characters, cameras, and objects in Maya software.

Pre-requisite: ANI 400
Co-requisites: ANI 501, ANI 504, CHR 531, STR 500 and LAY 511

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ANI531 - Basic Rigging for 3D Animators

In this subject the student will be introduced to the principles involved in rigging in Maya. A variety of rigging techniques and tools will be explored. Students will create a simple character rig as well as bind/skin geometry to that rig.

Pre-requisite: ANI 400

Co-requisites: ANI 501, ANI 524, ANI 521 and ANI 531

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