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Course Industry Sector
Arts, Media & Entertainment

Course Originally Created By: CTE Online

Animation Model

Course Overview / Details

 

This instructional program prepares students to use artistic and technological foundations to create animated presentations for industry and entertainment. Students will develop basic drawing and design skills, learn the fundamentals and physics movement, the concept of communication to a given audience, and techniques for self-expression through a variety of animated formats. They will explore the careers and requisite skills required by animators in both entertainment and the business world.
 
About the Team:
 
This structure of this course and the materials contained within it were created by a team of educators from across the state with support from the CTE Online curriculum leadership team and detailed coordination provided by the Course Specialist Shawn Sullivan.

 

Program Information and Grade Levels

Grades:
9 to 12, College to Adult
Industries and Pathways:
Arts, Media & Entertainment, Media and Design Arts

CTE Course Certification Elements

  • Course Level: Concentration
  • CBEDS Course: Animation
  • CBEDS #: 5702
  • Total Hours: 540
  • Course Length: 2 Semesters
  • State Certified: No
  • Board Approval: No
  • Labor Market Demand: Medium
  • Is this course industry certified?: No
  • Course Type: Not Applicable
  • CSU/UC Approval: No
O*NET Occupations
Occupation NameOccupation Code
Multi-Media Artists and Animators27-1014.00
Graphic Designers27-1024.00
Audio and Video Equipment Technicians27-4011.00
Sound Engineering Technicians27-4014.00
Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers49-9061.00

Related Occupations

Standards

  • California Career and Technical Education Standards: 49
  • California Academic Content Standards: Integrated: 1 Reinforced: 22
  • California Standards for the Teaching Profession: 2
  • English Language Development Standards: 1
  • Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS): 1
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Competencies / Outcomes

  • Persistence of Vision
  • Story
  • Storyboarding
  • Sound Design
  • Character Design
  • Layout
  • Background
  • Animation
  • Ink and Paint
  • Modeling
  • Texturing
  • Lighting
  • Rigging
  • Squash and Stretch
  • Anticipation
  • Staging
  • Pose to Pose
  • Straight Ahead
  • Arcs
  • Follow Through
  • Slow In Slow Out
  • Secondary Action
  • Timing
  • Appeal
  • Exaggeration
  • Solid Drawing
  • Ethical Use

The student will be able to understand the scope and responsibilities of the following:

  • Writer
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Editor
  • Research and Development
  • Story Artist
  • Layout Artist
  • Matte Painters
  • Character Designer
  • Modeler
  • Technical Director
  • Animator
  • Sound Designer
  •  Composer

Outline

 

  1. Animation Jobs and Process
    • Ethics
    • History
    • Story
    • Storyboarding
    • Sound Design
    • Character Design
    • Layout
    • Background
    • Animation
    • Ink and Paint
    • Modeling
    • Texturing
    • Lighting
    • Rigging

 

  1. Animation Principles
  • Squash and Stretch
  • Anticipation
  • Staging
  • Pose to Pose
  • Straight Ahead
  • Arcs
  • Follow Through
  • Slow In Slow Out
  • Secondary Action
  • Timing
  • Appeal
  • Exaggeration
  • Solid Drawing

 

  1. Animation Production
  • Pre-production
  • Production
  • Post production
  • Writer
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Editor
  • Research and Development
  • Story Artist
  • Layout Artist
  • Matte Painters
  • Character Designer
  • Modeler
  • Technical Director
  • Animator
  • Sound Designer
  •  Composer

Units in this Course

  • Lessons in this unit will teach students about the history of animation, from the first inventions to present day techniques.  

    Animation History
    8 Hours
  • Lessons in this unit will teach students about the art theory of animation, from the elements and principles of art to the philosophy of Aesthetics.  

    Art Fundamnetals
    24 Hours
  • Lessons in this unit will teach students about the various concepts and areas to create art and animation.

    Art Production
    80 Hours
  • Lessons in this unit will teach students about the seven principles of character animation.   

    Character Animation
    80 Hours
  • Lessons in this unit will teach students techniques about various ways to plan, create  and prepare for animation in pre-production, production and post production.

    Production
    80 Hours
  • Lessons in this unit will teach students about the Jobs of animation.  

    Jobs of Animation
    16 Hours
  • Lessons in this unit will teach students about the  responsibilities of a media artist.

    Ethics
    5 Hours