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There can be only one: independent animation production for the lonely

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This beginner's course is aimed at the ambitious loner seeking to create independent animation without the luxury of a large budget or staff. Participants will learn professional production procedure and organization, geared to take their piece from concept to creation to festival submission. Topics covered will include production strategies for storyboarding, animatics and scratch-track creation, budget and scheduling, sound quality, viewing formats, editing and compositing, copyright issues, distribution and final submission to animation festivals. The emphasis will be on digital pre- and post-production concerns useful to all independent animators regardless of their chosen medium.

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Joel WAoki MPollak JDeYoung JUrsyn AChang W(2018)Massive collaborative animation projectsACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Educator's Forum10.1145/3215641.3215648(1-2)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3215641.3215648
Nosu KOsaki HTorii KAkiyama HKinoshita S(2012)Productivity and Quality Evaluation of 3D CG Short Animation GeneratedThe Journal of The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers10.3169/itej.66.J6366:2(J63-J68)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.3169/itej.66.J63

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There can be only one: independent animation production for the lonely
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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Joel WAoki MPollak JDeYoung JUrsyn AChang W(2018)Massive collaborative animation projectsACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Educator's Forum10.1145/3215641.3215648(1-2)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3215641.3215648
Nosu KOsaki HTorii KAkiyama HKinoshita S(2012)Productivity and Quality Evaluation of 3D CG Short Animation GeneratedThe Journal of The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers10.3169/itej.66.J6366:2(J63-J68)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.3169/itej.66.J63

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