Animation

This specialty is established to satisfy the desperate need of talents of our country’s cartoon industry and related industries. Targeted on television station, animationcompany, film and TV series production companies, network companies, gamecompanies, advertisement companies, we dedicated ourselves to the cultivation of compound-type professional talents who are of good Arts and humanities accomplishment, solid foundation of animation artistic theories, experienced in Cutting-edge technology of animation, relatively strong ability of artistic creation and creating practice, the ability to direct and create Animation and cartoons. They can undertake the task of Video post-production and game artistic design. As the construction site of Provincial characteristicspecialty, it has conspicuous regional advantages in the respects of specialty construction, school running level, and teaching quality. This specialty mainly provides such curriculummodules as Theories of Animation, Film, and TV, Basis of Animation, computer aided design, animationdesign, Animation Production, specialty practice and animation application, etc.

Courses in this program are as follows:

An Introduction to Animation

Credit points: 3

Credit hours:36

Course Number: 0363101

This course requires students should grasp the nature of animation development and the specialized theories of animation, including the origin and development of animation, the classification of animation, the artistic features of domestic and overseas animation, the technological process of animation production, the qualifications of the creator, the theory of animation production. Through elucidating the basic concepts concerned and appreciating typical films, a solid specialized foundation will be laid for animation majors.

Animation Motion Regularity

Credit points: 3

Credit hours:48

Course Number: 0363110

This course requires that students grasp the motion regularity of various objects and the ways of presenting them, developing the sense and ability of creating motional effect. The contents of the course include the basic motional principle and the presenting techniques of common objects. Through teachers’ theoretical elucidation and students’ counterdraw and imitation of typical examples, students gradually develop the ability of displaying various motional principles freely, adroit in the basic methods and techniques of presenting motional objects.

Scene Design

Credit points: 3

Credit hours:48

Course Number: 0363108

This course requires that students grasp the spacial features of animation scene, the drawing methods, and creating principle, understand that scene design is the spatio-temporal formative arts, which serve the development of plots , display of conflicts, and depiction of characters. The contents of the course includes the design techniques of composition of animation scene, color, shadow, perspective view, motion, etc. Through elucidation of basic concepts, analysis of typical cases and design exercises, students are to grasp the techniques and methods of scene design.

Creation of Two-Dimensional Animation I

Credit points: 6

Credit hours: 96

Course Number: 0364105

The contents of this course cover the whole technological process of the creation of Two-Dimensional Animation, including the steps from writing play, drafting stroyboards of words and pictures, to creating, editing, dubbing, incidental music, post production, etc. Students are guided to decide upon their own creation orientation according to their interest and advantages. The focus is to cultivate students’ ability of independent thinking and situation controlling. Through the creation of short animated film, students’ ability of creation will be examined, and the disadvantages in specialized ability will be made up for.

Creation of Two-Dimensional Animation II

Credits: 3

Credit hours: 80

Course Number: 0364109

This course requires that students should be experienced in the methods of animation creation, know well the duties of each department, understand the relationship between individual work and collective creation. The contents of this course include the choice of creating method, definition of individual responsibility, plan of technical process, down to the start of real creation and completion. Through the elucidation combined with exercises, each group can carry out the process of animation creation as a team. Students can understand the importance of haring out the work and helping each other, and learned to strike a balance between personality and cooperation so as to bring into full play the advantages of cooperation and fully arouse the enthusiasm for participation and creation.