Course: Introduction to Hand-drawn Animation 1

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Course title Introduction to Hand-drawn Animation 1
Course code KAU/ANKA1
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Domlátil Vojtěch, Doc. MgA.
  • Kočí Vojtěch, MgA.
Course content
1.-13. Animation of characters in elementary movement actions. Walk, run. Technical elements of animation. Methodology. Work procedures of an animator.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Collaborative instruction, Instruction based on dialogue, Multimedia supported teaching, Students' portfolio, One-to-One tutorial, Skills demonstration, Task-based study method, Individual study, Seminar
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 20 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Active, creative and inquisitive approach to tasks, ability to do a long term concentrated work, as well as individual insight, are the necessary conditions.
to reproduce basic drawing forms with their technological and expressional specifics, to compare and analyze different artistic expressions by criteria of esthetics, semiotics and technique on basic level, to reproduce knowledge about visual means suitable for animated creation, to specify basic knowledge of supporting arts disciplines and options for stylization of figural motives,
Skills
to use basic drawing techniques and mediums on level from level of a sketch to final drawing of mostly firural motives,, to design visual graphics metaphors with erudition on options of animation, in a few steps to describe the story through means of artistic expression, to work independently and activelly and flexibly react to evaluating commentary of the teacher, to show own creativity on generally assigned task, to show the will to find different artistic solutions, alter them and constructivelly evaluate,
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
The student will be able to animate characters in elementary movement actions.
of technological procedures in the field of animation exercises and cartoon animation, of basic methodology and procedures of animator, about historical and contemporary style canons used in different genres of art and animated production and its styization, of knowledge of basic animators and programators terminology, to understand the relationship between both disciplines, about project planning both individually and in a team (sketches, scenarios, storyboards, animating and programming works)
Skills
to use basic drawing animation techniques for designing a character in variety of motion actions, with understanding, to discusses the theme and proposes an innovative construction of a story (scenario, storyboard), to understand and pay attention to creative and artistic side of animation, to pay attention to hold the rhytm and building of action, to be able to accept and assert in a way the evaluation and critical response, is able of own basic reflection of own work,
Competences
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teaching methods
Knowledge
Seminar
Multimedia supported teaching
Task-based study method
Collaborative instruction
One-to-One tutorial
Discussion
Skills
Skills demonstration
Individual study
Students' portfolio
Competences
Discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Seminar work
Individual presentation at a seminar
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Competences
Seminar work
Recommended literature
  • krátké ukázky z mnoha animovaných filmů, které jsou charakteristické právě použitou animační technologií..
  • Boček, Jaroslav. Jiří Trnka : Historie díla a jeho tvůrce. Praha : Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1963.
  • Dovnikovič, B. Základy kreslené animace.
  • Dutka, Edgar. Scenáristika animovaného filmu ; Minimum z historie české animace. Praha (1 vyd.), 2002.
  • Klusáková, Veronika. Dějiny českého animovaného filmu.
  • Kubíček, Jiří. Úvod do estetiky animace. Praha : Akademie múzických umění, 2004. ISBN 80-7331-019-8.
  • Poš, J. Český animovaný film.
  • Švankmajer, Jan. Síla imaginace.
  • Urc, Rudolf. Animovaný film. Bratislava : Osveta, 1980.
  • Valušiak, Josef. Základy střihové skladby. V Praze : FAMU, 2005. ISBN 80-7331-039-2.
  • Wiedemann, Julius. Animation Now!. Hong Kong : Taschen, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8228-3789-4.


Study plans that include the course
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