Course Name (short): 2D Applications
School: Animation Arts and Design
Program(s): Bachelor of Animation
Program Coordinator(s): Mark Mayerson
Course Leader or Contact: Multiple Course Leaders
Originator: Barbara Mathieu
Designate: Barbara Mathieu
Version: 3.0
Status: Approved (APPR)

Calendar Description
Students construct finished scenes by creatively working with 2D animation software. Students apply digital production workflows in the creation of scenes and understand why that flow is important.

Typical Instructional Format

Courses may be offered in other formats.

Section I Notes: This course is taught by Barnabas Wornoff and Ryan Irwin

Detailed Description
Students construct finished scenes by creatively working with 2D animation software. Virtual cameras and multi-layered layouts are used to construct a scene in 3D space. Both digitally drawn animation and symbol animation are created to complete the scene. Students apply digital production workflows and understand why that flow is important. This knowledge helps the students adapt to different studio productions.

Program Context

 Critical Performance:
Students will have demonstrated the ability to use animated character
assets in a 2D digital environment.  Advanced features and procedures
will supplement the animation to prepare this content for the
composite stage of the film process.

To achieve the critical performance, students will have demonstrated
the ability to:
1.  Evaluate artwork for software application compatibility
2.  Interpret digital reference to guide animation performance
3.  Incorporate colour management into a scene
4.  Organize image assets in virtual 3-D space
5.  Formulate image resolution with respect to planned camera motion
6.  Compose camera motion in 2D application
7.  Construct character for symbol scene
8.  Pose character through time and fine tune to enhance performance

Students demonstrate their learning in the following ways:

1.	Classical Animation:

        -  Rough Poses		 5%
        -  Tight		 5%
        -  Clean Line		 5%
        -  Colouring		 5%
        -  Shadows & FX	         5%

2.	Animation Walk			
        -  Walk Cycle		10%
        -  Start and Stop 	 5%

3.	Final Character Animation:
        -  Character build	15%
        -  Body Acting		10%
        -  Face Acting		10%
        -  Background 		 5%
        -  Overall		 5%
        -  Camera 		 5%

4.	Active participation    10%

                       TOTAL   100%

- ToonBoom Animate Forum: http://www.toonboom.com/support/forums/animate/
http://www.toonboomtutorials.com/

-ToonBoom Harmony documentation
-Adobe TV: http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-flash-professional-cs5/
-Adobe - 1K
tool:http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-flash-professional-cs5/using-spring-properties-with-ik-bones
- Lynda.com (available at Sheridan)

Some details of this outline may change as a result of circumstances
such as weather cancellations, College and student activities, and
class timetabling.

  
Week 1
- Go through outline. 
- Go through ToonBoom Harmony and get a general understand of the
  working of all the menu¿s drawing features, library and network. 
- Introduce Assignment 1, classical animation 
- Roughed out animation keys dude week 2. 
  -  Key animation must have single character walking in 3Q 
     perspective getting bigger
  -  Must stop center screen
  -  Must turn to face profile in opposite direction
  -  Must be between 10-15 rough key drawings of full body character

Week 2
- Review key poses
- Demo on shift & trace and how to tighten up drawings on a new layer
- Tightened up on model keys due week 3. 

Week 3
- Review tightened up keys
- Demo on proper industry cleanup with both pencil and brush
- Demo on proper colouring with custom palette
- Cleaned up coloured keys due week 4. 

Week 4
- Review coloured and cleaned up keys. 
- Demo on adding modules in network for shadows, highlights, and drop
  shadows
- FX on keys due week 5. 

Week 5
- Review FX layers and modules on keys. 
- Hand out prebuilt character of bull to students
- Demo on how to properly add rows of keyframes to pose character
- Demo on how to add antic and extreme poses to 
- Demo on how to tween character in both the tweening 1's method, and
  2's method
- Demo on how to add secondary action on arms, head, and tail to
  offset motion and add variation
- Students must build 6 separate poses, then antic, then extreme, and
  settle properly from one pose to the next. 3 using 1's with ease
  outs, 3 using 2's with ease outs. 
- 6 tweened poses dues week 6. (no facial acting)

Week 6 (Thanksgiving Monday)
- Review tweened poses. Go over proper antic, extreme and settle
  poses. 
- Review proper ease out methods using 1's and 2's. 
- Assign simple acting with face acting and lipsync
- Animated shot due week 7 using either 1's or 2's. 

Week 7
- Review tweened animation. Give tips and pointers. 
- Demo on character building
  - Drawing elements
  - Pegging elements
  - Changing rotation points
  - Building the network hierarchy
  - Hand library (10 hands, 5 each side)
  - Mouth library (Happy and Sad full mouth sets)
  - Blinks
- Built character due week 8

-Break week-

Week 8
- Review characters built
- Demo on adding cutters, deformers, and colour overrides, and
  grouping
- Final built character due week 9

Week 9 (Walk cycle)
- Review characters with deformers, and other modules
- Review how to animate with rigged characters again.
  - Rows of keyframes
- Demo on 4 main poses of walk cycle
  - Stride, Down, Midstride, Up
- Walk cycle with character due week 10

Week 10
- Review walk cycle 
- Demo on how to start and stop a walk from a standard standing
  position
- Demo on building backgrounds with Photoshop
- Work period on walk and starting and stopping.
- Walk with start and stop due week 11, Pick line of dialogue 10  
  seconds long, bring in next class. Rough BG due week 11

Week 11
- Review walk with start and stop
- Review Rough BG
- Import audio into scene
- Line of dialogue 10 seconds long, (240 frames) and first draw thumb
  nails in storyboard pro, and then import thumb nails into shot to
  start posing your character using rows of keyframes
- Rows of keyframes due week 12. Final BG due week 12

Week 12
- Review rows of keyframe poses
- Review how to animate with a rigged character
  - Antic and Extreme positions
  - Adding breakdown poses
  - Duplicating drawing parts to push posing
  - Tweening and putting things on 1's or 2's
  - Adding ease out to movements to settle naturally
  - Offsetting arms, head, secondary, etc. 
- Antic and extremes with tweening for keyframes due week 13

Week 13
- Review tweened animation
- Demo on acting and animating
- Demo on camera. Using it for camera moves or cuts within a shot
- Workshop on face acting
- Final animation due week 14 with 

Week 14
- Review final animation
- Work period to finish animation shot