AN205 Animation: Pre-Production 3 credits
This course focuses on the behind-the-scenes aspects of developing animation projects, including a variety of technical and non-technical production issues. Topics include story and character development, bibles, turnarounds, character and background design, storyboarding and animatics.
Prerequisites: Life Drawing I
Fulfills: 200-Level Animation Elective; Studio Elective

AN220 Animation: Traditional and Digital 3 credits
This interdisciplinary course begins wtih a brief overview of the history of animation using drawing exercises involving story telling, character development and bringing pictures to life with mechanical animation devices such as Thaumatropes and Zoetropes. Students will then translate the tradition of hand drawn cell animation to digital tools by using a variety of techniques to create motion on a computer screen: drawing, collage, stop motion, rotoscoping and the incorporation of video and sound. Emphasizing planning, storyboards and time management, each student will finish the course with a completed short animation.
Prerequisites: Drawing I or Permission of Instructor; Co-Requisite: Drawing I for 1st Semester Freshman
Fulfills: Animation Requirement (Animation students); Graphic Design Elective (Graphic Design students); Time Based Media Requirement (Photography students); Digital Media Elective (Self Directed students); Studio Elective

AN230 Animation: 3-D 3 credits
This course focuses on using a graphical interface to generate virtual 3-D objects while using traditional processes. Emphasizing planning, project management, motion studies, and storyboarding, students will explore a variety of narrative and thematic assignments. Each student will finish the course wtih a completed short animation project.
Prerequisites: 15 Studio Credits, including LTT Elective or Permission of Instructor
Fulfills: Animation & Interactive Media Requirement; Graphic Design Elective (Graphic Design students); Time Based Media Requirement Elective (Photography students); Digital Media Elective (Self Directed students); Digital Sculpture Requirement Elective (Sculpture

AN299 Topics in Animation 3 credits
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in animation. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation.
Prerequisites: To be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
Fulfills: 200-Level Animation and Interactive Media Elective; Studio Elective

AN305 Animation and Interactive Media Projects I 3 credits
This is an opportunity for advanced students to work independently or in small groups in a structured critical environment. The final project of this course is a public presentation incorporating one or more of the following forms: 2D or 3D Animation, interactive media or web authoring.
Prerequisites: 15 Studio Credits; At least one of the following: Animation: Traditional to Digital; Animation 3-D; Web Authoring I; Interactive Design
Fulfills: 300-Level Animation and Interactive Media Elective; Studio Elective

AN310 Animation and Interactive Media Projects II 3 credits
This is an opportunity for advanced students to continue to work independently or in small groups in a structured critical environment for an additional semester. The final project of this course is a public presentation incorporating one or more of the following forms: 2D or 3D Animation, interactive media or web authoring.
Prerequisites: Animation and Interactive Media Projects I
Fulfills: 300-Level Animation and Interactive Media Elective: Studio Elective

AN399 Topics in Animation 3 credits
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Animation. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation.
Prerequisites: To be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
Fulfills: 300-Level Animation and Interactive Media Elective; 300-Level Studio Elective