Week Lab / Lecture Assignments / Labs
Pre-Production
1) 1/22 - 1/26 Lab TBS Intro / tools and workspace     L1 TBS intro Tutorials
  Lec Class intro / semester plan / story-script     A1  Cartoon reviews
 
2) 1/27 - 2/2 Lab TBS Camera views   Cartoon story - narrative L2 TBS Animate in 3D space
  Lec Cartoon Pitch / Storyboards with visual writing A2 Cartoon Pitch (in class)
          A3 Cartoon Story and Script
 
3) 2/3 - 2/9 Lab Scanning / vector conversion in TBS   Cartoon script L3a TBS scanning/vectorization
  Lec Making of Tarzan   2 column format
 
4) 2/10 - 2/16 Lab TBS camera control (pan, zoom, truck)   Cartoon storyboards L3b TBS scanning/vectorization
  Lec Peer recommendations     A4 Cartoon Storyboards
 
5) 2/17 - 2/23 Lab Holiday M 2/18   Production
  Lec Audio processing / dialogue / x-sheets   dialogue, music, sfx A5 Cartoon reviews and updates
 
6) 2/24 - 3/1 Lab TBS Audio / TBS sceneplanning     A6 Cartoon x-sheets
  Lec media: optimization, management, formats x-sheets A7  Cartoon soundtrack(s)
 
7) 3/2 - 3/8 Lab TBS lip sync   Character development L5 TBS lip sync
  Lec background art, image processing   Backgrounds (for animatic) A8 Cartoon backgrounds
 
8) 3/9 - 3/15 Lab Animatic production   Animatic A9 Cartoon title and credits
  Lec  
  Lec Drawing keys and extremes    
 
9) 3/16 -3/22   Spring Break    
 
10) 3/23 - 3/29 Lab Animatic Production     A10  Cartoon Animatic
  Lec Drawing keys and extremes    
 
11) 3/30 - 4/5 Lab TBS special effects   Keys, Extremes, Inbetweens A11 Completion Plan
  Lec Drawing keys and extremes   Pencil tests
 
12) 4/6 - 4/12 Lab Cartoon production     Pencil tests
  Lec Pencil tests / Peer recommendations    
 
13) 4/13 -4/19 Lab Cartoon production   Clean-up
  Lec Pencil tests / Peer recommendations   Digital Ink and Paint
 
14) 4/20 - 4/26 Lab Cartoon production    
  Lec Drawing keys and extremes   Post-production
 
15) 4/27 - 5/3 Lab Cartoon production    
  Lec Output options and properties   Special Effects
 
16) 5/4- 5/10 Lab Cartoon production   Media Packaging
  Lec Cartoon Screening   Output to DVD and web A10  Cartoon completion
 
17) 5/11 - 5/17 final class meeting    Cartoon Screening
(schedule and points may be adjusted as semester progresses due to extenuating circumstances)
*Assignments must be completed to a C or better grade before continuing 
to next assignment. The can mean redoing the assignment.

schedule subject to modifications due to extenuating circumstances