Sara Payne

This class introduces the traditional animation techniques of creating movement through successive drawings. Techniques include metamorphosis, walking cycles, holds, squash and stretch, blur and resistance. Students use the pencil test Lunch-Box to view their work . Students complete a series of exercises encouraging a full range of animation skills and a final project. Films illustrating drawn-animation techniques are screened regularly.

This course addresses a wide range of animation techniques and materials, both analogue and digital. Students explore drawing materials, cut-outs, cameraless animation, under the camera destructive and constructive animation, and compositing. Expanding on skills developed in Animation I, students create more painterly and material-based work.

The class is structured around a series of workshops, lectures, discussions and critiques. Relevant works are screened as source of inspiration for our material explorations.

Students produce a series of quick assignments exposing them to new techniques, culminating in a final project due at the end of the semester.