This course will offer skill development in using software to develop storyboards and 2-dimensional animation, including creating, importing, and sequencing media elements to create multi-media presentations. Emphasis will be on conceptualization, creativity, and visual aesthetics.  This course takes the students through various aspects of animation using different 2-dimensional software.  Developing concepts, storyboarding, and producing several 2-dimensional animations will be accomplished.

The 2D course is an intermediate course for digital and cut-out animation. This course provides students with the fundamental skills to produce traditional style animation and puppet animation and the knowledge of energy principles to be built upon in subsequent classes leading up to the Portfolio course. Students can also apply skills learned in this class in other areas, including motion graphics and basic traditional animation.