Review of the Animation Principles using simple shapes (sphere, cube) animating these forms in a easy to understand demonstration | Carry over these principles into a flour sac character and finally into a simple character design of a human | Loose drawing overview and demonstrations

What motivates a character? Emotions? Dialogue? | How to take a large acting shot and reduce it to the essential body poses that will communicate the most with the least amount of drawings | Break down the behavior into Key poses

Stretch / Smears: Tips on the various styles of drawing motion blur and smears | Animating and demonstrating a simple flour sac and also a simple human character to showcase the effectiveness and pose to pose and straight ahead animation | In addition a demonstration on non performing character like Fire, and Water make a great demonstration of straight ahead animation

Silhouettes and finding the BEST pose for a given movement | Compare a movement with two versions of choreography | Version A is one with little attention to silhouettes and Version B is of the same animation utilizing more effective silhouettes.

Demonstrate overlap using a walking cycle | Create props like earring, hair, bags, and hats to convey the concepts of Overlap.

Utilizing Video footage to act out and/or reference the timing and mechanics of a performance | The video can be a dance movement, footage from a film, or a self made footage.

Create an an animation using an original design for a with a line of dialogue | Film reference, model sheets and character design studies will be created to help in this process.

Demonstrate how to smooth out the animation and introduce the inking and coloring process for next steps

Continue work on final projects