Description
In this course, students will develop animation and micro storytelling skills by focusing on the process of creating frame-by-frame digital drawings and keyframe movement for animation. This course will serve as an introduction to both the professional digital software Harmony by Toon Boom and the process of digital drawing and character movement. Instruction will include line style, visualization, character development, continuity, timing, and compositing. All production steps required to develop simple, 2D digital animations will be demonstrated and applied through exercises aimed at the production of a single animated scene. Students will develop and refine their personal style through exercises in digital animation and assignments directed at increasing visual understanding. Students will learn about body mechanics and motion flow in the development of animated characters and backgrounds through techniques that include walk cycles, rotating forms, transformations, holds, smear fram