Character Animation and Sequential Storytelling

Animation here is treated as a storytelling medium rather than a software skill — the central question is how a character, a sequence of frames, and a controlled rhythm of images can carry a narrative that a viewer actually feels. You'll move through the full pre-production pipeline (idea, script, storyboard, character and environment design, color script) and then animate short exercises like a bouncing ball with personality or a falling leaf with a tiny story, applying the 12 principles across traditional, cut-out, stop-motion, and digital techniques. As a studio elective in COMD, it complements the department's design and visual communication courses by giving you a working vocabulary for sequential art, and the portfolio pieces you build here are the kind of work that lands you internships in animation, motion graphics, or game studios.