Page 12 - CAPE ANIMATION AND GAME DESIGN SYLLABUS

UNIT 1
MODULE 1: UNDERSTANDING ANIMATION AND GAME DESIGN (cont’d)

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT/EXPLANATORY NOTES

Students should be able to:

15. present project proposals; Skills and preparation required:
Research, time management,
communication.

Guidelines for effective oral and written
communication:

(a) diction;
(b) grammatical structures;
(c) knowing your audience:
relationship between audience
and diction;
(d) determine the purpose: inform,
persuade, instruct, entertain;
(e) structure: Beginning, Middle and
End;
(f) importance of the hook and types
of hooks, for example, statistics
and quotes.

Oral communication elements:

(a) tone and pitch;
(b) body language and movement;
(c) use of visual aids with specific
emphasis placed on multimedia;
(d) equipment and room check; and,
(e) importance of editing.

16. identify concepts and skills 12 principles of Animation (Walt Disney).
required for animation and game
design; Programming languages such as C#, Java
and Python.

Game Development Tools such as:
Construct 2 and Stencyl.

Examples of Open Source and Proprietary
software useful for animation and game
design.

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