Intro to Animation

This semester I have chosen to take the Intro to Animation course as my elective class. I decided to take Animation as I once dreamed of being a cartoonist and drew several comic books while in middle school. Before my interest in film sparked a change of career choice, I had wanted to work for either Nickelodeon or Adult Swim. The class will prove to be interesting and above all challenging as I am not familiar with the Illustrator and Flash programs, however I do learn fast with computer programs. Our first assignment was a small flipbook that we would create in order to get an idea of the most basic principle of animation (motion imagery comprises of a collection of still images that when shown in rapid succession creates the illusion of motion). The point is that we will take this premise and apply it to vector-based drawings to create a new type of animation the likes of which pioneers like Walt Disney could not have foreseen.