ARTS 1316 DRAWING FOR ANIMATION

Course Hours: 3
Time: Wednesday 7:00 –9:45

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 animation drawing techniques that will better
enable them to develop, test and explore a wider range of options in their animations, concepts
and other time-based arts. We will work through a series of sketchbook exercises and have
weekly studio drawing sessions
Course Objectives: Developing personal styles and methods that are effective for time-based
projects.
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.

There are three assignments tracks; character, effects and background. Pick one course of
assignments to follow through the semester.

Character/Effects/Background

Week One: Introductions, self-portraits /Spheres/cubes/cylinders/cones

Week Two: 50 eyes/50 smoke/one point and two point perspective boxes
Week Three: 50 pairs of hands/30 fire plus definition/three point perspective
Week Four: 50 pairs of feet/50 breakage/copy buildings
Week Five: 50 poses/30 splashes plus definition/cityscape
Week Six: 50 skeletons + 5 extended studies/30 explosions plus definition/trees
Week Seven: muscles + 5 extended studies/30 waves plus definition/undergrowth
Week Eight: Twisting-torque/50 shadows/furniture
Week Nine: balance-weight-tension/tones& highlights/room fixtures
Week Ten: silhouette, and then push the pose/props/room interiors
Week Eleven: Cloth studies/ cloth studies /building materials textures
Week Twelve: Clothing/clothing/ interior textiles
Week Thirteen: 2 or more figures interacting/50 flags/

Final Projects :
Character: 35 sketches from life of fictive couples or groups.
Fx: 50 examples of the effects of wind on objects
Background: 3 house exteriors and interiors.
Grading: You will be evaluated based on:

Your growth and application of effective animation drawing techniques

Successful completion of the assignments
Attendance
Class and Critique participation

Materials :
Two 12” x 9” spiral bound sketchbooks
A collection of b-pencils as well as “blues” and “reds”
Black china markers
18x22 inexpensive pads of paper…manila is fine
An art drawing board (to brace the large pad for drawing)
A pad of tracing paper

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 dishonest 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.