ATEC 4370 ANIMATION

Course Hours: 3
Time: Wednesday 12:30 –3:15

Instructor: Bruce Barnes

Phone: (972) 883-2860
Office: ARTS 1.114
E-Mail: bruce.barnes@utdallas.edu

Office hours : by appointment

Course Description: Students will be introduced to fundamental animation principles

that are universally used in 3-D, 2-D and Web animation. We will work through a series
of exercises and have weekly crits on the projects.
Course Objectives Understanding and effectively demonstrating classic animation
principles in your work.
Assignments : The dates and requirements may change or be adjusted. I’ll base any
changes on the appropriate ordering of projects and on class progress.

Week One: Introductions, opening lecture, research

Week Two: squash and stretch projects
Week Three: morphing
Week Four: anticipation
Week Five: weight and balance
Week Six: cycles/walk or rain
Week Seven: partner project
Week Eight: lip sync
Week Nine: three emotions project
Week Ten: clothesline
Week Eleven: clothing
Week Twelve: Final: an animation, no less than 5 seconds, incorporating as many
principles as is appropriate for your project
Week Thirteen: work time/feedback

Final Projects :
Your final project must be turned in within a folder with a CD of your work and tests, the
paper drawings, your X-sheets, mechanicals and any related sketches or concept work
that relates to the evolution of your final project.
Grading : You will be evaluated based on:

Your growth and effective application of animation principles and

techniques
Successful completion of the assignments
Attendance
Class and Critique participation

Materials:
One 12” x 9” spiral bound sketchbook
A collection of b-pencils as well as “blues” and “reds”

Accommodation Process
It is the policy of UTD to provide reasonable and appropriate accommodations for
individuals with documented disabilities. This University will adhere to all applicable
federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and guidelines with respect to providing
reasonable accommodations as required to afford equal educational opportunity. It is the
student’s responsibility to contact the appropriate office in a timely manner if s/he desires
to arrange for accommodations.

Scholastic Dishonesty
UTD may initiate disciplinary proceedings against a student accused of scholastic
dishonesty. Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to statements, acts, or
omissions related to application for enrollment, the ward of a degree, and/or the
submission of one’s work of material that is not one’s own. Scholastic dishonesty may
involve one or more of the following acts: cheating, plagiarism, collusion, and falsifying
academic records.

Cheating is the willful giving or receiving of information in an unauthorized manner

during an examination, illicitly obtaining examination questions in advance, copying
computer files, copying internet material, using someone else’s work for assignments as
if it were one’s own, or any other disho nest means of attempting to fulfill the
requirements of a course.

Plagiarism is the use of an author’s works or ideas as if they were one’s own without
giving credit to the source, including, but not limited to, failure to acknowledge a direct
quotation.

10 % of your final grade will be based upon your attendance, being in your seat and ready
to begin at the start of class time and your participation. Any skipping out before the class
is dismissed will be re-recorded as an absence. Everyone will be permitted one unexcused
absence. Each absence after that will result in a one-grade drop per absence in your final
grade. Example: the final class work grade results in a B effort. If that student has 2
unexcused absences I will drop their grade two letter grades to a D. Their final grade for
the course will be a D.