A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.

James Trainor

Professor

Bio

Associate Professor, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation (2000). BA, 1983, Columbia University, NY. Films: The Fetishist; The Bats; The Moschops; The Magic Kingdom. Screenings: Whitney Biennial; Anthology Film Archives; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Chicago Filmmakers; Sundance Film Festival; New York Animation Festival; Pacific Film Archive; Nashville Film Festival; Rotterdam Film Festival, Netherlands; Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greece; Golden Horse Festival, Taiwan; La Xina A.R.T., Barcelona. Awards: San Francisco International; Black Maria Film Festival; NY Underground Film Festival; Cinematexas Film Festival; Big Muddy Film Festival; Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This class introduces the traditional animation techniques of creating movement through successive drawings. Techniques include metamorphosis, walking cycles, holds, squash and stretch, blur and resistance. Students use the pencil test Lunch-Box to view their work . Students complete a series of exercises encouraging a full range of animation skills and a final project. Films illustrating drawn-animation techniques are screened regularly.

Class Number

1602

Credits

3

Description

This class introduces the traditional animation techniques of creating movement through successive drawings. Techniques include metamorphosis, walking cycles, holds, squash and stretch, blur and resistance. Students use the pencil test Lunch-Box to view their work . Students complete a series of exercises encouraging a full range of animation skills and a final project. Films illustrating drawn-animation techniques are screened regularly.

Class Number

1419

Credits

3

Description

This class introduces the traditional animation techniques of creating movement through successive drawings. Techniques include metamorphosis, walking cycles, holds, squash and stretch, blur and resistance. Students use the pencil test Lunch-Box to view their work . Students complete a series of exercises encouraging a full range of animation skills and a final project. Films illustrating drawn-animation techniques are screened regularly.

Class Number

1614

Credits

3

Description

This class introduces the traditional animation techniques of creating movement through successive drawings. Techniques include metamorphosis, walking cycles, holds, squash and stretch, blur and resistance. Students use the pencil test Lunch-Box to view their work . Students complete a series of exercises encouraging a full range of animation skills and a final project. Films illustrating drawn-animation techniques are screened regularly.

Class Number

1444

Credits

3

Description

This course introduces students to the basic elements of a screenplay, including format, terminology, exposition, characterization, dialogue, voice-over, adaptation, and variations on the three-act structure. Weekly meetings feature a brief lecture, screenings of scenes from films, extended discussion, and assorted readings of class assignments. This is primarily a writing class, with students required to write a four-to-five page weekly assignment related to the script topic of the week.

Class Number

1605

Credits

3