Course Title

Advanced Digital Animation

Course Description

Students will utilize action-scripting and advanced multimedia and web video production techniques to deliver dynamic, data-driven content to any audience, increasing the standards for layout, design and production. (Can substitute Advanced Animation Techniques for this course).

Contact

Carrie DeMuth
405-743-5426
cdemu@okcareertech.org

Knowledge and Skills

• Apply intermediate scripting techniques for interactive design.
• Use various types of loops to repeat actions.
• Use callbacks to set up functions.
• Use functions to recycle blocks of script.
• Use arguments and return results.
• Store related collections of variables and functions.
• Create custom object classes.
• Use properties of graphical objects to build advanced interactivity.
• Add navigation, audio, and user interaction to presentations.
• Attach behaviors.
• Write scripts with Action Script.
• Make Web content with Shockwave.
• Use properties of graphical objects to build advanced interactivity.
• Create a soundtrack for an interactive web site.
• Create, manage, and modify cast members and sprites.
• Add navigation, video, audio, and user interaction to presentations.
•  Attach behaviors.
• Write scripts with Lingo.
• Prepare and deliver movies and animations.
• Make Web content with Shockwave.
• Create CD Business cards/Portfolio.
•  Demonstrate knowledge of how to use a scripting language to program a site.
•  Demonstrate knowledge of the uses and advantages/disadvantages of various scripting languages.
• Resolve product problems.
• Identify problems and propose solutions.
• Implement solutions in code and documentation.
• Apply advanced modeling techniques.
• Select color and textures to enhance 3D graphics and/or special effects.
• Interpret how different light sources affect a scene or object and create effective lighting.
• Transform objects through translation, rotating, and scaling.
• Apply animation techniques to objects.
• Render images to create desired results.
• Apply 3D modeling and animation solutions for interactive media presentations.

Adobe - http://www.adobe.com/training/

Media Production:   Motion Graphics Artist - http://www.okcareertech.org/testing/Skills%20Standards/Information_Career_Cluster.htm

Brainbench - http://www.brainbench.com

Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) - http://www.ciwcertified.com/certifications/program.asp

Accountability Measures, Assessments, or Evaluation Procedures

Adobe - http://www.adobe.com/support/certification/

Media Production: Motion Graphics Artist - http://www.okcareertech.org/testing/Skills%20Standards/Information_Career_Cluster.htm

Brainbench - http://www.okcareertech.org/certify

CIW - Certified Internet Web Professional - http://www.ciwcertified.com/

WOW - World Organization of Webmasters - http://www.joinwow.org/

Industry Alignments

(Select from the following)

Adobe Video Specialist:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Premiere
• Adobe After Effects

CIW Site Designer:

• Foundations Exam
• Site Designer Exam

 Brainbench (3 exams required):

• Adobe Photoshop
• Macromedia Flash
• Select one:
• Macromedia Director
• 3D Studio Max
• Active X
• JavaScript

ODCTE:

• Media Production: Motion Graphics Artist

Curriculum Resources

• Macromedia: Training from the Source Books
• MAYA Learning Community (Personal learning edition of MAYA is free to download)
• Lynda online learning library
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Action Script:   Training from the Source, Macromedia Press, ISBN#0321213432
• Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted, Friends of Ed, ISBN#1590592360
• Extending Flash MX 2004: Complete Guide and Reference to JavaScript Flash, Friends of Ed, ISBN# 1590593049
• Director MX 2004, Training from the Source, ISBN # 0-321-22365-9
• Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book, ISBN # 0-321-10379-2
• After Effects 6.0, Hands-On-Training, ISBN # 0-321-22854-5
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 H.O.T., Beyond the Basics ISBN # 0-321-22853-7
• Macromedia Flash Professional 2004 Application                 Development, Training from the Source, ISBN # 0-321-23834-6
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004, The Complete Reference, 2nd Edition, ISBN # 0072229209
• How to Do Everything with Macromedia Flash MX 2004, ISBN # 0072229691
• Career Cluster Resources for Information Technology - http://www.careerclusters.org/resources/ClusterDocuments/itdocuments/ITFinal.pdf

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