Course Overview / Details
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
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
- All Standards
- Full Details
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
- Animation Jobs and Process
- Ethics
- History
- Story
- Storyboarding
- Sound Design
- Character Design
- Layout
- Background
- Animation
- Ink and Paint
- Modeling
- Texturing
- Lighting
- Rigging
- 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
- 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




