Animation - Second-Year Studio II

Catalog description

This studio is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of visual storytelling, and its expression in the form of the drawn storyboard. Students will explore how stories are structured, and how they are written and formatted for film. Topics include: story structure and character story arc, plot, theme, roles and character archetypes. Through lecture, discussion of examples from film, and demonstration, students develop economical drawing skills to express a narrative through a sequence of storyboard panels using the visual grammar of filmmaking. Prerequisite: ANIM 210 and ANIM 215 with semester grades of "C" or higher or instructor permission. Corequisite: ANIM 315. ANIM 321.