2DAN 210 S002: Animation II
Continuing with the study of essential animation principles, students work at creating sophisticated movement phrases through a series of short assignments that focus on drawn animation. Students practice developing their animation by iterative refinement based on class feedback, progressing from rough to polished stages of production. An emphasis is placed on acting, staging, and timing. In addition, students employ film grammar, develop storyboards, and create short narratives by linking characters' motives and movement sequences with a variety of scenes, shots, camera angles, and editing points. A variety of relevant films are presented, relating contextually to lecture topics.
2DAN 200 Animation I
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Vanessa Schwartz received her Master of Fine Arts in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts. Her awards and honors for her animated films include a 1994 Oscar Nomination in the Animated Short Film Category; Channel 4 Young Filmmaker of the Year 1994, Student Academy Award Winner, The Janitor 1994; Ottawa International Animation Festival: Best First Film by Canadian.
She worked at Pacific Data Images (Now Dreamworks) in Palo Alto CA, as a 3D character animator on the Feature film Ants.
She has taught traditional and computer animation at the Academy of Art College, San Francisco Graduate School; California College of the Arts, Oakland CA; San Francisco Academy of Art, Foundation Program
In additional to teaching gesture drawing and animation at ECUAD, Vanessa has given several life drawings workshops to Pixar employees.
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Jan 8-Apr 20 12:30:00-15:20:00 |
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