Action Analysis II

(3 Credits)

An intensive intermediate craft class exploring "personality" animation: creating characters that think and express emotions. Students analyze scenes in live action and animated films, including performances in drama, classical and modern dance, mime, opera, musical comedy, etc. and principles of communication in fine art painting, popular illustration, photographs, advertising, and modern/experimental artworks, etc. Each week students present for classroom critiques homework assignments, e.g., rough tests of animated characters endowed with a thought-process and emotions.