Art 263 Animation I (Section 1)
SCHEDULE
Professor Lee Crowe
Email: MyFriendlyCrow@gmail.com
Office Hours By Appointment AC402: Mondays 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Please save all animation work as MOV files on a portable hard drive, Dropbox.com, CSUN
Box, or Google Drive. Flash drives are acceptable for saving work but they are more
corruptible and not recommended.
ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE AT THE START OF CLASS. Students may not work on
assignments during critique. It’s important that you actively view your fellow classmates
work and actively participate in critique. You can learn a lot this way! Please also refrain
from doing other things during critique like being online or on your phone.
Please utilize the lab hours, which will be posted on the door, to do work outside of class. You
may also work in the other animation lab, so make a note of those lab hours as well. If your
assignment is not ready at the start of class, you may work on it later and show it later. Late work
will lose grade points. See syllabus for info regarding submitting late work.
WEEK 1
Monday 1/25
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Class overview, introductions, stop motion examples.
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
Wednesday 1/27
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Homework: – Create a stop motion piece. Due in one week.
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More stop motion examples; historical screenings
WEEK 2
Monday 2/1
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Assignment 1: Two flipbooks, due in one week. (You will be asked to film these later
in the quarter, after the professor views them and returns them to you.)
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
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Work on Flipbooks if time allows.
Wednesday 2/3
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Stop motion piece due.
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
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Work on Flipbooks if time permits.
WEEK 3
Monday 2/8
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Assignment 1 due: Flipbooks
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Discuss Assignment 2: Bouncing Ball animation. Due Wednesday 2/17.
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Historical screenings if time allows
Wednesday 2/10
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Historical Screenings, discussion and lecture
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Work on Bouncing Ball
WEEK 4
NO CLASS MONDAY 2/15 – PRESIDENT’S DAY
Wednesday 2/17
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Critique Assignment 2: Bouncing Ball
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Discuss Assignment 3: Flag wave, due in two weeks
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Homework: Spend at least an hour studying a real flag and doing quick sketches of
the wave pattern. Fill up 8 pages in a sketchbook to show next class.
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Historical Screenings if time allows
WEEK 5
Monday 2/22
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Instructor will check sketchbooks for flag sketches
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Work on flag wave
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
Wednesday 2/24
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Work on flag
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
WEEK 6
Monday 2/29
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Work on Flag
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Historical Screenings, discussion and lecture
Wednesday 3/2
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Critique Assignment 3: Flag wave
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Assignment 4: Biped walk, due Monday March 14
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Homework: Draw a simple “bean man” in several poses; fill at least two pages of your
sketchbook; due next class.
WEEK 7
Monday 3/7
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Review sketches
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Work on bi-ped walk
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Historical Screenings if time allows
Wednesday 3/9
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Work on bi-ped walk
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Historical Screenings, discussion and lecture
WEEK 8
Monday 3/14
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Critique Assignment 4: Biped walk
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Midterm quiz review
Wednesday 3/16
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Midterm quiz – animation history covered up to this point
SPRING BREAK – NO CLASSES 3/21 OR 3/23
WEEK 9:
Monday 3/28
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Homework 2: Resume, website, and cover letter, due 4/6
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
Wednesday 3/30
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Lecture on Action Analysis and The Twelve Principles of Animation
for Flour Sack animation.
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
WEEK 10:
Monday 4/4
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Assignment 5: Flour sack animation, due Wednesday 11/18.
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Work on Flour sack
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Historical Screenings if time allows
Wednesday 4/6
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Resume, cover letter, and website due
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
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Work on Flour sack
WEEK 11:
Monday 4/11
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Homework: film of flipbooks due in 2 weeks
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Historical Screenings, discussion and lecture
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Work on Flour sack
Wednesday 4/13
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
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Work on Flour sack
WEEK 12:
Monday 4/18
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
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Work on Flour sack
Wednesday 4/20
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Critique Assignment 5: Flour sack
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Historical Screenings if time allows
WEEK 13:
Monday 4/25
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Flipbook films due
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
Wednesday 4/27
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Assignment 6: Group Project on the history of Global animation, due 12/2. (All
group projects are due on this date even if you do not present on that day.) Decide
world regions and divide into groups.
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Historical screenings if time allows
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Work on Group Projects
WEEK 14:
Monday 5/2
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Historical screenings, discussion and lecture
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Work on group project if time allows
Wednesday 5/4
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Final quiz review
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Work on Group Projects
WEEK 15
Monday 5/9
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Group project presentations
Wednesday 5/11
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Group project presentations
EXAM WEEK
Monday 5/16 – 8:00 PM
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Final exam – Animation history that was covered since midterm; the Twelve Principles.