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Publication Date May 2012 Contents Your Art Curriculum............................................................................................................................. 11 About Toon Boom Studio ............................................................................................................................... 12 About The Art Curriculum ............................................................................................................................... 13 Lesson Breakdown .......................................................................................................................................... 14 What is in Each Lesson? ............................................................................................................................ 14 What are the Lessons About? ................................................................................................................... 15 What Are the Required Tools? ................................................................................................................. 16 Where Can I Find More Information? ....................................................................................................... 16 Will There Be Homework? ............................................................................................................................... 17 Lesson 1: History of Animation ................................................................................................. 19 Lesson Objectives ........................................................................................................................................... 20 Total Lesson Time: One class ................................................................................................................... 20 Lecture Notes .................................................................................................................................................. 21 History of Animation ................................................................................................................................. 21 In the Beginning ................................................................................................................................. 21 What is an Optical Toy? ..................................................................................................................... 21 What is Persistence of Vision? ............................................................................................................ 21 The Zoetrope ..................................................................................................................................... 22 The Thaumatrope ............................................................................................................................... 22 The Flip Book ..................................................................................................................................... 23 The Praxinoscope ............................................................................................................................... 23 The Movie Camera ............................................................................................................................. 23 Winsor McCay and Gertie the Dinosaur ............................................................................................ 24 The Peg Bar ........................................................................................................................................ 24 The Rotoscope ................................................................................................................................... 24 The Many Innovations of the Walt Disney Studios ............................................................................ 25 Activity: Build Your Own Thaumatrope .......................................................................................................... 26 You will need: ..................................................................................................................................... 26 How to make a Thaumatrope ................................................................................................................... 26 Lesson 2: Animation Techniques............................................................................................. 29 Lesson Objectives ........................................................................................................................................... 30 Total Lesson Time: One class ................................................................................................................... 30 Lecture Notes .................................................................................................................................................. 31 Animation Techniques .............................................................................................................................. 31 Traditional Animation ............................................................................................................................... 31 Full Animation .................................................................................................................................... 32 Limited Animation .............................................................................................................................. 32 Rotoscoping ....................................................................................................................................... 32 Digital Animation ...................................................................................................................................... 33 Digital Cut-out Animation .................................................................................................................. 33 Paperless Animation ........................................................................................................................... 33 3D Animation ..................................................................................................................................... 34 Motion Capture .................................................................................................................................. 34 Stop-Motion Animation ............................................................................................................................ 34 Puppet Animation .............................................................................................................................. 35 Claymation ......................................................................................................................................... 35 Cut-out and Silhouette Animation ..................................................................................................... 36 Object Animation ............................................................................................................................... 36 Sand Animation ........................................................................................................................................ 37 1 Toon Boom Studio Art Curriculum - Student Guide Activity: Research a New Animation Technique ..............................................................................................38 Lesson 3: Animation Workflow ..................................................................................................39 Lesson Objectives ............................................................................................................................................40 Total Lesson Time: One class ....................................................................................................................40 Production Staff and Outsourcing ...................................................................................................................41 Production Staff - Descriptions .................................................................................................................41 Animatic Editor ...................................................................................................................................41