IS219

This course will provide an overview of the history and methods of the animated cartoon and feature film. Animation-bringing images to life-takes many forms. Traditional cel animation, stop motion, and digital techniques are all used to help create the "illusion of life," as Disney artists claimed during their Golden Age. Animated films, long considered mere entertainment for children, have tackled the issues of war and peace. This course will examine the popular and the underground, the mature as well as the entertaining. This course will look at the historical, social, political, cultural, and formal background of the last 130 years of animation, charting the rise of the artform from trick photography to the digital revolutions of the last thirty years.

Pacific NW College of Art