This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
Overall techniques and methodology, modern solution to the problems, examples from productions.
Analysing and creating action - examples of extracting key and timing information from live action and inventing from scratch.
Total contact hours: 57
Private study hours: 93
Total study hours: 150
Only available to students on programmes owned by The School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Main assessment methods
Portfolio1 (20%)
Portfolio2 (80%)
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
1. The analysis of physical motion and the extraction of solid animation schemes from it.
2. The creation of locomotion cycles of the major categories and the creation of transitions between them.
3. The placing of cycles on movement paths and their adaptation in an animation editor and subsequent customisations of the results.
4. The creation of large scale effects from such results under specific animation briefs.
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