CSE 450 - Animation Production Seminar Credits: 1 Fall Quarter Open to all students who have an interest in digital animation. Reviews and analyzes films, animated feature films, and television commercials. Emphasizes the technical and aesthetic basics of animation production in industry studio environments.

CSE 456 - Story Design for Computer Animation Credits: 4 Summer Quarter Animation principles and production for story development and design. Design, development, and production of several storyreels, which are a tool for the pre-production of animated features and shorts. Student will use authoring tools such as Adobe Premiere and Photoshop to present finished work. This course is open to all students but an application must be submitted for acceptace into course.

CSE 458 - Computer Animation Credits: 5 Autumn Quarter Prerequisite: either CSE 457, Music 403, or an Art Portfolio Website: http://www.cs.washington.edu/cse458 Introduction to basic principles of computer generated animation. Focus on the modeling, shading, lighting, and animating of 3D characters. Students from Art, CSE, and Music team up on projects to be built on commercially-available 3D packages. Interested students must submit an application for review before acceptance into course.

CSE 459 - Preproduction for Computer Animation Credits: 5 Winter Quarter Prerequisite: CSE 458 Website: http://www.cs.washington.edu/cse459/ Pre-production of collaboratively designed animated shorts. In-depth analysis of classical and computer generated works. Character design and pre-planning, concept art, story boarding, model sheets, storyreel and animatics. Character motion, design for multiple characters, and principles of animation as applied to character motion and effects.

CSE 460 - Animation Production Credits: 5 Spring Quarter Prerequisite: CSE 459 Website: http://www.cs.washington.edu/cse460/ Apply the knowledge gained in previous animation courses to produce a short animated film. Students will go through an animation industry standard production pipeline that involves modeling, texturing, lighting, animating, rendering, and post production.

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