Storyboarding for Animation

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Generate their own short narrative and create an accompanying storyboard sequence

• Produce an adapted storyboard sequence from an existing work

• Design individual storyboard panels according to effective compositional principles

• Identify and describe the use of successful visual storytelling techniques

• Analyze and effectively critique the storyboards of colleagues

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Introductory Assignments	20%
Adapted Story Project	25%
Final Project
Story, Character, Environment	20%
Final Animatic	35%

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
100-93	A
92-90	A-
89-87	B+
86-83	B
82-80	B-
79-77	C+
76-73	C
72-70	C-
69-67	D+
66-63	D
62-60	D-
Below 60	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance will be taken at the start of every class. More than four total absences will result in the loss of a letter grade off your final grade.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

• A sketchbook and pencil

• Headphones

Positionality Statement:

This course engages diverse scholarly perspectives to develop critical thinking, analysis, and debate, and inclusion of a reading does not imply endorsement.