Anticipation, Follow Through, Overlapping Action, and Secondary Action

The Three Parts of Staging

Cultivating Healthy Animators

Now is the time of the semester when students (and instructors) might start feeling the physical effects of…

Assignment: Stopmotion Extravaganza

• Learning the Dragonframe interface
• Navigating group dynamics

Collaborative Learning Through Stopmotion

Students come into our program at all levels of ability and experience. Some have an intuitive sense of timing and spacing while others love animation, but have never considered the actual process of breaking down a movement into frames. As in any course…

Sound Design Crash Course

Our program has a sound design course that all animation students are required to take, but not all of them have taken it when they get to my Intro to Animation course. So as we move into final projects, I spend part of a class period with a brief lecture on how to approach sound…

Animation Fundamentals, flipped!

There’s a time and a place to flip the classroom, and I think teaching the animation fundamentals is…

Animation Fundamentals, flipped!

There’s a time and a place to flip the classroom, and I think teaching the animation fundamentals is…