DANM-Digital Arts and New Media

DANM 100A Animation I

Hands-on course introduces students to basic methods and practices in animation while exposing them to independent animation artists. Students explore techniques ranging from hand-drawn, frame-by-frame animation to object animation and pixilation. (Formerly course 131, Introduction to Animation.)

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior majors and graduate students in digital arts new media, art, computer science game design, film and digital media, and theater; or by permission of instructor.

General Education Code

PR-C

Quarter offered

Winter, Summer

DANM 100B Animation II

Expands on student understanding of both experimental and conventional animation techniques. Workshops in 2D drawn, stop-motion, and stop-action animation methods are combined with tutorials of the post-production process, screenings of animation examples, and critique.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): DANM 100A or DANM 131, or ART 107, or CMPM 25 or CMPM 26, or by permission of instructor. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students.

General Education Code

PR-C

Quarter offered

Spring

DANM 218 Interactive Game Design

As a team, students design a working prototype of a game including the Design Document, Prototypes, and Game Implementation. Introduced to advanced media types including 3D animation, principles of object-oriented programming, digital music, and video. Strongly recommended that students have a working knowledge of programming language, preferably an object-oriented language (Macromedia Lingo preferred).

Credits

5

Instructor

Barry Sinervo

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. Upper-division undergraduates may enroll with permission of instructor.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Winter

DANM 225 Theater, Drama, and the Pixar Feature

Viewing of the Pixar Animation Studios canon combined with lectures on the major art history movements within discipline of theater history and its attendant dramatic literature: The Marxist Epic: A Bug's Life and the Backstage Musical; Shakespeare's Comedic Weltanschauung: Finding Nemo; Postmodern Criticism: Toy Story; French Romanticism and the Hugo Hero: Monsters, Inc.; Alger, Albee, and The Incredibles' American Dream.

Credits

5

Instructor

Daniel Scheie

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. Upper-division undergraduates may enroll with permission of instructor.

DANM 226 Creativity, Collaboration, and Professionalism in Art

Exploration of the practice of making a living, as well as a life, in art. Examines strategies for connecting with the community using outreach projects and the joys and sorrows of working collaboratively. Compares corporate and nonprofit funding paths and the business of showing work while maintaining creative challenges.

Credits

5

Instructor

Tandy Beal

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. Upper-division undergraduates may enroll with permission of instructor.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Spring

DANM 249 Faculty Seminar

Faculty lectures to familiarize first-year DANM graduate students with program faculty members and their creative work and research so the students can select their faculty advisers and thesis committee members.

Credits

2

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Winter