Animation 2: DreamLab Studios

Engage in the full creative process of making short animated films on social topics, exploring stop motion techniques like object, pixilation, cutout, and clay animation

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About Course

Craft stories with stop-motion

During this course, students are engaged in the comprehensive artistic process of creating their own short animated films on social topics.

Students practice stop-motion animation creation in different techniques (object, pixilation, cutout, clay).

Skills

Skill-up approach

Animating
Video editing
Sound Design
Artistic research
Critical Thinking
Visual Storytelling
Creative writing

Syllabus

Step-by-step to the Result

Research through art!: Anti-bullying Stop Motion Animation
- Principles of cutout animation
- Artistic research
Project: anti-bullying stop motion animation
Educate!: Educational Hand-drawn Animation
- Aesthetic visual tools
- Animating visuals in hand-drawn technique
Project: educational hand-drawn animation
Create!: Meaningful Stop Motion Animation
- Models, clay puppets, props and scenery
- Music and sound effects
Project: meaningful stop motion animation
Go viral!: Project publishing
- Intellectual property rights
- Basic tools of video editing
Project: animation showreel

Hands-on Projects

Case-based Portfolio

"Animation 2: DreamLab Studios " final project

A 1–2 minute long showreel combined from a digital portfolio of 4 animated films created during the course in a manner that meets current animation industry expectations, and shows the student’s proficiency with different animation techniques.

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