This Experimental Animation course is designed to give students an intensive overview of animation as a fine arts practice - ranging from the projected image to the sculptural. In the class, we will be screening and studying a variety of artists and how they use the form as expression outside of the traditional narrative structure we see in the mainstream. Some artists include: Takeshi Murata, Ryo Orikasa, Janie Geiser, Caleb Wood, Melissa Ferrari, Pia Borg, Nienke Deutz, Martha Colburn, Dahee Jeong, Eric Dyer, Anthony McCall and others.?
Accompanying these screenings, a workshop portion will allow students to put into practice their own ideas of what experimental animation is by utilizing some basic techniques explored in the course. Some techniques include: Replacement, Collage, Rotoscope, Pixelation, and object animation. With the use of the Dragonframe software, one will investigate objects/materials utilizing the camera; studying its textures, forms, as well as any inherent movement it might produce. By the end, students will have a handful of short animation exercises completed as well as a final piece utilizing ideas learned within the course that can potentially take the form of: short video/film, installation, sculpture or photographic series.