Hampton City Schools

Curriculum Implementation

June 2002

Prepared by

Laurie Smith and Vivian Griese

Updated March 2007 by Ai Choo Ashe

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Curriculum

3D Animation

Level 1 – First Year

Program Emphasis: The student develops and refines attitudes, knowledge, and skills through the manipulation of the 3D animation program. 3D animation includes the creation of objects and the ability to animate movement. The student will recognize the relationships this art has to other fields including technology, media, and mass communication.

Curriculum:

  • Content and skills to be taught
  • Suggested strategies for teaching
  • Assessment of student learning
  • Social and emotional climate where learning takes place

This curriculum is constantly building and evolving around the individual student’s skill and commitment. Each lesson builds upon previously learned concepts. All concepts are expected to be integrated in each successive level of complexity.

Software:

  • Lightwave 3D Animation
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements
  • IMovie digital editing

Curriculum

3D Animation

Level 1 – First Year

Visual Arts Standards of Learning

Visual Communication and Production

AII.1The student will expand the use of a sketchbook/journal by adding preliminary sketches, finished drawings, critical writings, and class notes.

AII.3The student will demonstrate effective use of the elements of art and the principles of design in a variety of art media.

AII.4The student use technology to create and manipulate images.

AII.6The student will use historical subject matter and symbols as inspiration to produce works of art.

AII.7The student will employ the visual problem-solving process in the production of original works of art.

AII.8The student will adhere to ethical procedures when producing works of art.

AII.11The student will identify artists and visual arts resources within the community.

AII.12The student will demonstrate an understanding of an art career through oral or written communication.

Cultural Context and Art History

AII.1.5The student will identify and examine works of art in their historic context and relate them to historical events.

AII.1.7The student will examine and discuss societal conditions that influence works of art.

Judgment and Criticism

AII.20The student will describe, analyze, interpret, and judge works of art using an expanded art vocabulary.

AII.21The student will use an expanded art vocabulary to assess personal works of art in terms of effectiveness in the communication of ideas.

AII.23The student will identify and analyze characteristics of works of art that represent a variety of styles.

AII.24The student will participate in class critiques and criticisms based on one or more established models (e.g. Feldman, Broudy, Barrett).

Aesthetics

AII.27The student will discuss how responses to natural environment differ from responses to the man-made or constructed environments.

AII.28The student will demonstrate the ability to reflect on and analyze personal responses to works of art and artifacts.

AII.29The student will support opinions by reasoned processes using an expanded art vocabulary.

AII.30The student will describe, refine, and organize personal ideas about the aesthetic qualities of a work of art.

AII.31The student will research and investigate the intentions of those who created specific works of art.

AII.32The student will investigate and demonstrate that art can be viewed from a variety of aesthetic stances.