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Credit Value: 3.0
Credit Value Notes: N/A
Effective: Fall 2012
Prerequisites:
(ANIM22350)
Corequisites:
N/A
Equivalents:
N/A
Pre/Co/Equiv Notes: N/A |
Course
Name (short): Cont, Des & Figurative Perform
School: Animation Arts and Design
Program(s):
Bachelor of Animation
Program Coordinator(s):
Mark Mayerson
Course Leader or Contact: Tim Mccormack
Originator: Paulette Geffros
Designate: Paulette Geffros
Version: 12.0
Status: Approved - Under Rev (AREV)
Calendar Description
This course is designed to provide students with opportunities to
develop a personalized vision and version of figurative expression.
Emphasis is placed on aspects of figurative graphic sensibilities and
enhancing the qualities of art direction and the specific demands of
complex film animation.
Typical Instructional Format
Studio Course
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42.0 |
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42.0 |
Courses may be offered in other formats.
Section I Notes:
Course Contributors: Rick Pottruff, Mark Thurman
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Detailed Description
This course is designed to provide students with opportunities to
develop a personalized vision and version of figurative expression.
Emphasis is placed on aspects of figurative graphic sensibilities and
enhancing the qualities of art direction and the specific demands of
complex film animation. Topics include an in-depth analysis of
lighting and form modeling and anatomical simplification based on
comprehensive knowledge and understanding of dynamic anatomy. In
addition, students focus on an appreciation and understanding of
figurative continuity, and graphic rhythm and the nature of figurative
exaggeration and distortion. Through interactive lecture, discussion,
demonstration and studio work, students examine the emotional and
technical level of the art form, relating it to the varied nature of
animation storytelling and allowing them to gain personal confidence
in their abilities to draw.
Program Context
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| Bachelor of Animation |
Program Coordinator: Mark Mayerson |
This course is part of the
core component of the third
year of the Bachelor of
Applied Arts (Animation)
Program. It is the fifth in a
series of eight Life Drawing
courses whose development
reflects comprehensive and
thoughtful scope, content
analysis, and sequence in the
delivery within the Life
Drawing stream. In addition,
it reflects continuity,
integration and balance
through the other streams at
an intermediate level and
reflects the complexity and
logic of the design of the BAA
(Animation) Program. It
prepares students for the
remaining courses within the
stream and for building
connections to storytelling,
character, animation and
performance to courses in
other streams within the
program.
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Course Critical Performance and Learning Outcomes
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Critical Performance
By the end of the course, students will have demonstrated the ability
to project the design of anatomy using light and shadow in nude figure
drawings in a range of movements and time constraints.
Learning Outcomes
To achieve the Critical Performance, students will have demonstrated
the ability to:
1. Create figure drawings expressing action and movement directly and
clearly.
2. Produce drawings that reflect believable qualities of physical
weight and gravity.
3. Generate drawings that project subtle qualities of volume and
space.
4. Enhance the quality of drawings through effective rendering of
light and shadow.
5. Explore the use of various media (e.g. conte, chalk, markers, water
colour).
6. Articulate elements of character, age, body type, pose and body
language visually.
7. Incorporate knowledge of styles and cultural graphic influences
within drawings.
8. Simplify anatomical complexity into convincing dynamic rhythms.
9. Complete drawings that reflect comprehensive knowledge of
figurative composition and scale.
10. Explain the function of life drawing in relation to animated
storytelling and animation production at a basic level.
11. Self critique and filter the analysis of others objectively.
12. Create a life drawing work book for on site sketching and related
idea development.
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Evaluation Plan
Students demonstrate their learning in the following ways:
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35% Portfolio #1 (Week 7)
35% Portfolio #2: including media studies (Week 14)
5% Anatomy Case Study
10% Heros Villains Character Design
10% Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
5% Life Drawing Work Book
100% Total
Late Policy for all courses in the program:
All assignments are due within the first 15 minutes after the start
of class on the due date. Late projects, submitted after the first 15
minutes of the start of class will receive a 20% grade reduction.
Late projects submitted the following week will receive a 30% grade
reduction. There will be no submission of work after the last day of
semester unless arrangements have been made and documented by the
professor.
Work that is more than one week late will not be graded unless a
prior arrangement has been made with the professor; the arrangement
must be documented on email or a memo, with the new due date
identified. There will be no resubmission of work unless, under
exceptional circumstances, this has been agreed to or suggested by
the professor. Again, a hard copy of the agreement is necessary.
If there is a valid reason for the late project, the student must
email the professor at least 3 days before the due date. If the
reason is deemed to be valid, there will be no late penalty. A new
due date with be set by the instructor.
The basic late policy as laid out above will be followed, except in
the instance that an instructor requires a variation in policy. That
variation will be provided to the student in writing as part of the
actual assignment, which will be handed out by the instructor.
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Provincial Context
The course meets the following Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities requirements:
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Essential Employability
Skills
Essential Employability Skills emphasized in the course:
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X
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Communication
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X
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Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
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Interpersonal
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Numeracy |
X
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Information
Management |
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Personal
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Notes: N/A
Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition
PLAR Contact: Tim Mccormack
Students may apply to receive credit by demonstrating achievement
of the course learning outcomes through previous life and work experiences.
This course is eligible for challenge through the following
method(s):
| Challenge Exam |
Portfolio |
Interview |
Other |
Not Eligible for PLAR |
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X |
X |
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Notes: Both are required.
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Some details of this outline may change as a result of circumstances such as weather cancellations, College and student activities, and class timetabling.
Effective term: Fall 2012
Professor: Tim Mccormack
Textbook(s): Textbooks: N/A
Materials: 18 x 27 newsprint, spring clips, conte/carbon pencil
Applicable student group(s): Bachelor of Applied Arts (Animation)
Course Details:Students should arrive at Semester 5 with a solid foundation of
structural and dynamic anatomy. This semester, students develop skills
in expressing and exploring personal idioms of figurative form.
Volume, design, figurative continuity and graphic harmony are a major
focus. Students display confidence in figurative representation, and
research, relate and adopt drawing relationships to animation
processes.
Course Details:
Students should arrive at Semester 5 with a solid foundation of
structural and dynamic anatomy. This semester, students develop skills
in expressing and exploring personal idioms of figurative form.
Volume, design, figurative continuity and graphic harmony are a major
focus. Students display confidence in figurative representation, and
research, relate and adopt drawing relationships to animation processes.
Week 1
Introduction to Graphic Continuity, Design, Rhythm, Structure
Continuity, and Figurative Performance. Expectations and Procedures.
Overview of Requirements for the course
WEEK 2
Dynamic gesture. Directional Forces How and Why of Application
throughout the Figure. Performance and Acting. Continuous gesture,
multiple poses and memory studies.
WEEK 3
Light and Shadow. Application and methodology. Tonality and modeling
the form. Tactile drawing using the sense of touch to enhance form and
structure. Contour, tactile hatching and volume.
WEEK 4
Structural anatomy of movement overview. Dynamic Gesture and the
simplification of Anatomical Complexities. Cases study: the shoulder
girdle. Anatomy of movement descriptive analysis studies based on
student¿s diagnosis areas of structural weakness. Master reference.
WEEK 5
Anatomy overview continued. Cases study the leg, foot and ankle.
Planting the figure. 3-d head studies
WEEK 6
Superheroes and Villains. Design, Character Construction
Deconstruction, Continuity of Distortion. Double model. facial
caricature. Media Studies: marker and inks.
WEEK 7
Monsters and Aliens. Transmogrifications of the model continued
(deseve et. al.)
PORTFOLIO #1 DUE
WEEK 8
Portfolio reviews and figure studio workshop.
WEEK 9
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Site Sketching and Character Investigation
WEEK 10
Media studies. Material Handling, Investigation and Possibilities: Pen
ink and wash. Monochromatic. Caran d¿Ache crayons. (Heinrich Kley,
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec)
WEEK 11
More media studies. Watercolour & gouache - limited palette.( Feliks
Topolski)
WEEK 12
Clay sculpture sectional analysis (Honore Daumier)
WEEK 13
Clay sculptural sectional analysis
WEEK 14
Studio class. Review and PORTFOLIO #2 DUE
Academic Honesty
The principle of academic honesty requires that all work submitted for evaluation and course credit be the original,
unassisted work of the student. Cheating or plagiarism including borrowing, copying, purchasing or collaborating on
work, except for group projects arranged and approved by the faculty member, or otherwise submitting work that is not
the student's own violates this principle and will not be tolerated. Instances of academic dishonesty, including
assisting another student to cheat, will be penalized as detailed in the Student Handbook.
Students who have any questions regarding whether or not specific circumstances involve a breach of academic
honesty are advised to discuss them with the faculty member prior to submitting the assignment in question.
Discrimination and Harassment
Sheridan is committed to provide a learning environment that respects the dignity, self esteem and fair treatment
of every person engaged in the learning process. Behaviour which is inconsistent with this principle will
not be tolerated. Details of Sheridan's policy on Harassment and Discrimination are available in the Student Handbook.
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