This course is designed to give students an opportunity to experience another facet of animation pre-production: the script. Students develop a rough story idea, including characters, settings, conflicts, resolutions, and develop of a final, 22-minute script. Several smaller creative assignments lead to the final project. At the conclusion of the course, students will understand how to write a short script, have a body of creative pre-production suitable for animation development, and understand the aspects of storytelling that make a film memorable and successful. Prerequisite: AN 2310 Creative Visualization

Students explore different stylistic approaches for individual animated productions, and design original characters and environments. Areas of study include perspective, character and prop model sheets, background and character layouts, and proportion sheets (for multiple characters in a production). In addition, students produce full color samples of their master backgrounds and color keys of the main characters. Upon completion of this course, students will have a greater working knowledge of perspective and composition, knowledge of how these pertain to cinematic motion and design, and several finished works for their portfolios. Prerequisite: AN 3310 Character Animation + Motion Studies or AN 3720 3-D Computer Animation Motion Studies

This elective is an introduction to the arena of interactive game design. Students create digital animations that may be used in game design and creation. At the conclusion of the course, students understand the foundations of good game design, including story development, level design and modeling, lighting and texturing. Prerequisite: AN 3360 3-D Computer Animation Concepts + Techniques

Advanced students explore their creative ideas by stepping outside the boundaries of digital animation technology and art through the historic study and creation of unique animation. This experimental course allows the exploration of various forms of computer animation as a means of expression. Upon completion of the course, students will have expanded their artistic style through the creation of a finished animation. Prerequisites: AN 4420 3-D Advanced Dynamics + SFX

An advanced Technical Director class that examines basic programming and scripting techniques as related to specific CGI applications. Included are research, development, writing and testing of expressions and plug-ins for 2-D and 3-D software. Projects are integrated with other animation classes to solve production problems or create new CGI tools. At the conclusion of the course, students will have gained practical experience with various professional scripting/programming procedures by applying them to specific Animation Department production problems, and have a finished piece representing the work. Prerequisite: AN 4420 3-D Advanced Dynamics + SFX