This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This module is a group project which allows the student to work on a model of an actual animation job provided by our industrial partner. Each group produces an animation from established plates and models to a 4 week deadline. The student works with a model of a production pipeline, becoming familiar with the production process, chains of approval and departmental divisions.
Total contact hours: 56
Private study hours: 94
Total study hours: 150
Portfolio (100%)
• Visual Effects in A Digital World: A Comprehensive Glossary of over 7,000 Visual Effects Terms by Karen E. Goulekas Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1st edition (August 22, 2001) ISBN: 0122937856
• Walt Disney's Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation by John Canemaker Publisher: Disney Editions (October 31, 2001) ISBN: 0786864966
• Producing Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation) by Catherine Winder, Zahra Dowlatabadi Publisher: Focal Press (May, 2001) ISBN: 0240804120
• Special Effects: The History and Technique by Richard Rickitt Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications (October 1, 2000) ISBN: 0823077330
Background Reading:
• Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm by Patricia Rose Duignan Publisher: Del Rey; 1st ed edition (October 1, 1996) ISBN: 0345381521
• The Game Asset Pipeline by Ben Carter Publisher: Charles River Media (September 2004) ISBN: 1584503424
• Special Effects: An Oral History, Interviews with 37 Masters Spanning 100 Years, Pascal Pinteau Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN: 0810955911
• From the Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects, Norman M. Klein Publisher: The New Press ISBN: 1565848039
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
In the context of undertaking a group project, understand the constraints and terminology of a professional animation and visual effects environment. These outcomes are related to the programme learning outcomes in the Computer Animation MSc curriculum map as follows: A1-A7, B1-B4 and C1-C6.
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