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The stop motion minor becomes a vehicle for both majors and non‐majors to gain experience in a quickly growing field. Portland is an animation town, with three stop‐motion features in production this last year alone. We are lucky to regularly invite local industry professionals to share their work and expertise. Stop Motion as an art practice forms easy linkages with other majors and minors from Sculpture to Fashion to Illustration to Print Media to Applied Craft and Design. Animated Arts invites a healthy cross‐disciplinary mixing of students with varying post grad goals be it industry or indie media production.
Our curriculum has an open studio format giving students a chance to gain a basic understanding of animation and explore pathways toward puppet fabrication, costuming, set construction, lighting, rigging, and cinema, prop sculpture, character development, storyboarding, and animating. With a general knowledge of animation, students can build out their portfolio demonstrating specific stop motion craft skills that are also imbued with their own creative spark.
Featured courses: Stop‐motion animation, Advanced Stop‐motion animation, Puppet Fabrication, Collaborative Production.
AA231 Animation I: Methods, Materials & Motion (Fall or Spring), and
two of the following: AA237 Stop Motion, AA335 Special Topics: Adv. Stop Motion, AA238 Puppet Fabrication.
Choose two from: AA238 Puppet Fabrication, AA236 Character & Identity, IL264 Character Design, AA335 Special Topics: Production Col‐lab, IM251 Performance IM351 Intermedia Studio, SC491 Experimenting With Materials, CW224 Scripting: Comics and Games and Stories, AA335 Animated Arts Special Topics, AA336 2D to 3D Production, AH219 Art History Special Topics.
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