Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
Pros from Walt Disney Animation studios are helping visualization students at Texas A&M explore the relationship between the old-fashioned and the high-tech this summer.
Four teams of students are each creating a 30-second video from a story idea, provided by Disney, which involves two dogs: one a puppy, the other a robot.
“Disney animators are walking the students through the production pipeline, starting off with the story concept, through storyboards and final animation,” said Ann McNamara, assistant professor of visualization.
The students’ final projects, due July 30, will be 30-second animations produced in the same manner that a full-feature movie is produced by Disney.
“There’s two teams of five students and two teams of six,” said McNamara, serving as instructor/producer in the course, VISA 627 Design Communications 3, with Jill Mulholland, a lecturer in architecture. “Each student on each team takes responsibility for a part of the production. One might be in charge of story, one in charge of animation, another in charge of lighting,” she said.
Walt Disney Animation Studios released its first fully animated feature film, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” in 1937. Recent films by the studio include “BOLT,” “Chicken Little” and “Meet the Robinsons.”
- Posted: June 24, 2009 -
