On completion of this lesson you should be able to:

List the learning outcomes of the module

List the content of the unit

Identify a range of animation types

Developing Animation

Unit aim

The aim of this unit is to give you basic knowledge of;

• Animation styles and techniques

and

• For you to develop basic skills for animation techniques.

Unit introduction

Animation production is a significant activity in the media

sector, in television programmes, but also on the internet

and in the computer games industry.

While computer-generated animation is now very popular,

traditional techniques such as stop frame animation are still

widely used.

You will be introduced to a number of animation techniques

but should focus on one specific technique for the

production of an animation sequence.

You will experiment with a range of animation techniques

including Flipbooks.

You will be able to produce a short animation sequence.

Different Styles of Animation

There are THREE main styles of animation..

Can you think of what they might be?

Different Styles of Animation

1)Traditional Hand Drawn Animation

2) Stop Motion Animation

3) Computer Generated Animation

Can you think of any examples?

Different Styles of Animation

1)Traditional Hand Drawn Animation

Different Styles of Animation

2) Stop Motion Animation

Different Styles of Animation

3) Computer Generated Animation

Different Styles of Animation

Hand Drawn Animation

Simple!

On completion of this lesson you should be able to:

List the learning outcomes of the module

List the content of the unit

Identify a range of animation types