This document outlines the content and learning objectives of an animation techniques unit. The unit aims to provide basic knowledge of animation styles and techniques and develop skills in animation. It introduces different types of animation including traditional hand drawn, stop motion, and computer generated animation. Students will experiment with techniques like flipbooks and produce a short animation sequence.

1. On completion of this lesson you should be able to:
List the learning outcomes of the module
List the content of the unit
Identify a range of animation types

2. Developing Animation
Unit aim
The aim of this unit is to give you basic knowledge
of;
• Animation styles and techniques
and
• For you to develop basic skills for animation
techniques.

3. Unit introduction
Animation production is a significant activity in the media
sector, in television programmes, but also on the internet
and in the computer games industry.
While computer-generated animation is now very popular,
traditional techniques such as stop frame animation are still
widely used.
You will be introduced to a number of animation techniques
but should focus on one specific technique for the
production of an animation sequence.
You will experiment with a range of animation techniques
including Flipbooks.
You will be able to produce a short animation sequence.

5. Different Styles of Animation
There are THREE main styles of animation..
Can you think of what they might be?

6. Different Styles of Animation
1)Traditional Hand Drawn Animation
2) Stop Motion Animation
3) Computer Generated Animation
Can you think of any examples?

7. Different Styles of Animation
1)Traditional Hand Drawn Animation

8. Different Styles of Animation
2) Stop Motion Animation

9. Different Styles of Animation
3) Computer Generated Animation

10. Different Styles of Animation
Hand Drawn Animation
Simple!

11. On completion of this lesson you should be able to:
List the learning outcomes of the module
List the content of the unit
Identify a range of animation types