GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Elective: Animation/GIT 303
Course Title: Elective: Animation
Credits 3 ECTS 5
Semester 5 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Asst. Prof. Melda Öncü Yıldız
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://www.gsf.gazi.edu.tr/kisiler2007/melda.htm
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  m.oncu@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Will be able to create storyboard for the animation scenario.
Will be able to design useful characters and backgrounds for animation
To be equipped with the skills and technical competency to render a given story into a 2 dimensional animated movie
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  Introduction to 2D animation (technics, process and history)
2. Week  Properties of the tools menu in Adobe Flash CS3
3. Week  How storyboards works?
4. Week  Caharacter design
5. Week  Using timeline in Adobe Flash CS3
6. Week  Motion and shape animation in Adobe Flash CS3
7. Week  Symbols and movieclips in Adobe Flash CS3
8. Week  Backgrounds and moving objects
9. Week  Midterm Exam
10. Week  Designing movable objects
11. Week  Animated layers inside of symbols
12. Week  Adding audio files to the scene; synchronization, timing and spacing
13. Week  Designing the space
14. Week  Effective movements
15. Week  Using various affects on the scene transition
16. Week  Final Exam
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  -Richard Williams, The Animator’s Survival Kit, Faber and Faber,Inc., 2001 -Selçuk Hünerli, Canlandırma Sineması Üzerine, Es Yayınları, 2007 -
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration, Drill-Practice
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  -
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
40
 Assignment
0
0
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
40
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
3
42
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
0
 Searching in Internet and Library
14
1
14
 Designing and Applying Materials
14
4
56
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
10
10
 Final and Studying for Final
1
10
10
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
132
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
5.28
 ECTS: 
5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1By learning the necessary information in terms of historical, theoretical and practical in the field of visual communication design, and using this information in integrate of each other, consideration and positioning own works in the sight of these information in a critical way.X
2By following the national and international developments, implementing own practices in a contemporary level in accordance with these developments.X
3To be able to learn technical information and artifice those are used necessarily parallel in technological developments and use them in own works.X
4To have the necessary information and experience in two-dimensional and motion image production, processing and consideration.X
5To create appropriate color, value and composition containing stain functional, aesthetic and design elements for unique visual communication.X
6To produce creative concepts and turn those concepts to graphic, photographic, illustrative, three-dimensional, motion or interactive visual expressions.X
7To produce original visual solution by considering different projects in terms of visual communication design.X
8To be able to design the steps of practical projects in relation with the field, to provide process management and to earn the discipline to complete the projects successfully in the given time.X
9To attain the sources for field works and to plan owns development process.X
10To use in a respective and sensitive way to social values and personal benefits, the theoretical, technical and technological information that is gained in practical works which is relative to the field, in accordance with ethical and legal regulations.X