Week 1

Class discussion: Introduction to Experimental Animation
Reading: “ What is Digital Cinema? ”Essay by Lev Manovich

Assignment 1: Music with sounds/harmonic and discordant sounds in relationship to movement.

Week 2

Class discussion: Stop frame animation
Assignment 2: Animate the Inanimate – any method digital or analogue.
Workshop: Assignment 1

Week 3

Class discussion: Painting on movies
Assignment 3: Hand to Eye – rotoscoping in painter
Workshop: Assignment 2

Week 4

Class discussion: Working with images sequences on the computer.
Film strip files, batch processing and moving masks.

Week 5

Class discussion: The exquisite corpse, surrealism and film
Workshop: Assignment 3
Assignment 4: Group projects in three parts

Week 6

Group projects continued

Week 7

Workshop: Group projects

Week 8

Assignment (Final Projects): Building on one of your completed animations or starting anew, begin working on final project.

Week 9

Assignment (Final Projects): Building on one of your completed animations or starting anew, begin working on final project.

Week 10

In class work & individual conference

Week 11

Workshop: Final Projects