Creative Development for Animation Production | 2DAN-310

Junior Film Project, Spring 2025

Junior Animation Project & Creative Activities

• Project prompt

Senior Project Proposal

• SPP prompt and presentation details – Stay tuned
• Notes about 3rd Year Panels – Stay tuned
• Example of a Senior Project timeline – Stay tuned

Details about submitting both your 3rd-year project and Senior Project Proposal are posted on the course Moodle site. Consequently, you will need to log into Moodle first.

Writing & Creative Development

With notes and prompts aligned with course work:

• Beat boards and storyboards
• Animatics
  • Preparing a WIP reel / animatic
• Character sheets
• Setting / background concepts
• Sample scene

Project Planning & Management

• OneDrive, how to organize a Project Document
• Calendar exercise
• Production schedules

Production

• Work-in-progress or WIP reels / animatics
• Citation of music sources and audio recordings
  • Further citation of sound effect recordings, as a cue sheet or kind of bibliography
  • Film credit design

Digital Animation Methods & Software

With links to information and production methodologies with:

• Output and presentation specifications for projects as movie files
• Digital paperless animation
  • Toon Boom Harmony
  • Adobe Animate
• Compositing, assemblage and editing
  • Premiere and media production
  • After Effects and animation methodologies
• Lens-based animation
  • Dragonframe

Sound for Animation

With notes and prompts aligned with course work:

• Output and presentation specifications for projects as movie files
• Sound resources
• The Sound Effects Library at Emily Carr University
• Citation of music sources and audio recordings
  • Further citation of sound effect recordings, as a cue sheet or kind of bibliography
  • Film credit design
• Adobe Audition notes
• Colour bars and reference tone
• ECU Media Resources Home Page

Animation Production Techniques

For storyboard templates, timing charts, and field guides