Students are introduced to the basic principles of animation and will create their own 2D animations primarily through traditional stop-motion. Many of the projects will focus on simple hand methods. The four main projects they will be producing in this class will be an Animated Portrait, Hand-drawn Character Dance, Claymation and a final project where the student can choose medium/style/technique.

Students will enter the role of “Artist” and become animators using the skills, tools and processes required to express themselves in a variety of animation media. Along the way we will examine the history of animation and the power and influence traditional animation and computer generated imagery has in our contemporary culture. 

Magnet students in the Film Integration course independently research and present on production practices utilized by a Classical Hollywood studio.