BFA: Digital Animation

Curriculum Information

• Curriculum Check sheet for BFA in Digital Animation

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• Animation Core and Animation Studio Courses (45 credits)

  Animation Core (30 Credit Hours)

  ANIM 3600 - Foundation Animation
  ART 3015 - Electronic Illustration
  ART 3150 - Figure Drawing
  ART 3160 - Painting I
  ART 4024 - Motion Graphics
  ANIM 3620 - Storyboarding & Composition
  ANIM 3630 - Environments for Animation
  ANIM 3640 - Character Development
  ANIM 3650 - Digital Animation Production I
  ANIM 3660 - Digital Animation Production II

  
  Animation Studio (15 Credit Hours)

  Select 15 credits from among the following four repeatable classes.
  No single class in this area may be taken more than three times for credit.

  ART 4255 - Advanced Study of the Figure
  ART 4035 - Concept Art
  ANIM 4630 - 3D Animation Modeling
  ANIM 4650 - Digital Animation Studio

Admission

• Apply to Enroll in Upper-Level Digital Animation Courses

  It is important that students interested in applying to the Digital Animation concentration talk to the faculty advisors of the area. The office hours are posted on the Faculty Web Page.

  Sandee Chamberlain
  Assistant Professor of Digital Animation 
  Email: schamb37@kennesaw.edu
  Website: sandeescribbles.com
  Office: TBD

  Upper-Level Portfolio Instructions

  These instructions are for students who have already been accepted to the BFA in DigitalAnimation. Students in the BFA in Digital Animation are required to submit a portfolio for review by the faculty after the completion of introductory coursework. This is a different portfolio from the one required for acceptance into the major. If you have not formally been accepted to the BFA, change your selection for Type of Portfolio to Entrance to the BFA or Entrance to the BS in Art Education as appropriate. 

  To submit your mid-level review portfolio for Digital Animation, upload the following:

  1. Three of your best drawings from ART 2150 Drawing II. Images should be uploaded asJPEGs with height and width pixel dimensions no smaller than 400 pixels and no larger than2000 pixels (images should approximately fill the screen at a sharp resolution but not be solarge to cause slower upload/download speed). The work should be photographed with goodlighting and cropped to the image. If work is not rectangular, please make the background gray, black, or white without distracting elements.
  2. Three of your best projects from ART 2550 Computer Applications in Art
  3. Three of your best animations from ANIM 3600 Foundation Animation
  4. Two of your best projects from ART 3015 Electronic Illustration 

  The portfolio review occurs once the student has enrolled in two of the following three classes:

  ANIM 3620: Storyboarding & Composition
  ANIM 3630: Environments for Animation
  ANIM 3640: Character Development

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Facilities and Resources

• Features of the Digital Animation Area

  VA 224 Design Studio
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  • Hours vary depending on class assignments. Please contact studio coordinator for hours.
  • iMacs, Cintiqs, Epson scanners, and Ricoh Printers available

  Two iMac Computer Classrooms
  Each class room has twenty-two student workstations equipped with the following resources.

  • 21.5-inch iMac (i7 processor with 16 GB RAM)
  • Wacom 22HD Creative Pen Cintiq Display
  • 21.5 inch iMac lectern with projection screen capable of demonstrating use of software
  • Adobe Creative Cloud including all of the most recent versions of software (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Animate, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Bridge, Lightroom)
  • Maya and other software sometimes used for animation and illustration
  • One workroom with a photography studio and a mat-cutting and project assembly workspace

  Printers & Peripherals

  • Three Ricoh Color Laser Printers capable of printing on paper media up to 12 x 18 inches
  • Several Epson V500 scanners (8.5x11 in.)
  • Three Epson V700 scanners with transparency adapters (8.5x11 in.)
  • Three Epson Expression XL12,000 scanners (12.2x17.2 in.)
• Student Pro-bono and Freelance Animation Work

  Our students are focused on very demanding coursework, and therefore, they are not available for any pro-bono commercial projects. If you have a budget for a project, please contact Assistant Professor Sandee Chamberlain (schamb37@kennesaw.edu) to present your concept. Please have a one-page project brief, a script, and a proposed budget prepared. 

  Please note: there are no guarantees that your project will be pursued by students. If a project is pursued, all contracts and paperwork for the project must originate from the student(s) only. This is non-negotiable.