Action Analysis I

Catalog description

The key principles and mechanics of animation motion, including timing, spacing, staging an image for clarity, imparting a feeling of weight in animation graphics and characters, etc. Live-action and animated films are studied frame by frame providing a detailed analysis of the movements. Students present test animation exercises (i.e., a character walking on a windy day) digitally for class criticism. This course is based on the intensive studies done in the 1930's at the Walt Disney Studio for the purpose of improving their animated films. "I definitely feel," Disney wrote in 1935, "that we cannot do the fantastic things, based on the real, unless we first know the real."