Syllabus	Forget the Film, Watch the Titles	Motionographer.com	U of MN Animation Home Page
Class Outline	Final Project	VideoCoPilot.net	Links
Recommended Texts		CreativeCow.net	John Lasseter's Principles of Animation
		After Effects tutorial at the Adobe web site
Assignments		A boatload of tutorials from Tutorialized.com	After Effects CS3 Hotkeys
Assessment		All kinds of tutorials, galleries and insight into the CG world of 3D, 2D and otherwise at CGSociety.org

Class outline and schedule:
ARTS3604
ARTS5640
Animation, Fall 2008

Class Date	Mtg.	Topics covered, (subject to change)
Sept. 8	1	Introduction to the class and each other, Introduction to animation as an art form,  Two Words assignment given, discussion of methods and projects After Effects intro demo.
Sept. 15	2	Working with Photoshop and After Effects Two Words assignment due, Dialogue assignment given Storyboards and other work flow methodologies, more history and techniques, the Fundamental principles of Animation
Sept. 22	3	Working with 3D, working with music Dialogue assignment due, Music assignment given
Sept. 29	4	3D, Photoshop, Music and text. The how and why of  style sheets, storyboards and animatics
Oct.  6	5	Music assignment due, Title Sequence assignment given
Oct. 13	6	More on the how and why of pre-viz tools: Style Sheets, Storyboards, Animatics. Fun Title Sequence-y things: Track Mask, Stroke, Particles and more.... Discussion of the final project. Work Time!
Oct. 20	7	Title Sequence assignment due, Finals assignment given
Oct. 27	8	Final Project proposals due.
Nov. 3	9	Final Project Animatics due.
Nov. 10	10	Working
Nov. 17	11	Project roughs 1 due.
Nov. 24	12	Working
Dec.  1	13	Project roughs 2, (80% mark) due
Dec. 8	14	Working
Dec. 15	15	Final Showing?

updated: November 23, 2008