An Introduction to the world of 2D Animation. The topics covered under this course are Foundation Art, Drawing for Animation, Animation principles & techniques. This course also teaches the student about essesntials of animation analysis, cartoon principles, and animation layout using traditional and digital techniques.

Careers in the 2D Animation field include key and assistant animators, layout and storyboard artists, character and prop designers, inbetweeners and clean-up artists.

This course provides students with the advanced knowledge in principles of classical animation. The student will learn concepts such as squash and stretch, timing, path of action, anticipation, action-reaction, weight, volume, and staging. This course will also develop the student's animation design sense, with exercises in character design. The student will also learn technical skills to produce animation, such as how to flip and draw, and how to film animation using Light boxes & using punch sheets. Skills learned will be applied throughout the Digital Animation Program.