Open to all majors, the Animation Minor has a production focus in creative storytelling, social issue documentary, artistic experimentation and visual effects.
Students make short animations using techniques like drawing, stop-motion, mixed media, and digital 2D, 3D and visual effects. Students gain a foundation in animation principles and pre-production, and practice the techniques used in cinematic fine arts, gaming, streaming and entertainment media, scientific and humanities fields. The Animation Society student club welcomes all students.
| Documentary Animation | Collage Animation |
| Experimental Animation | Digital Drawing-Painting |
| Narrative Animation | Rotoscope |
| Drawing | 2D Stop-Motion |
| Sand Painting | 3D Stop-Motion |
| Claymation | 3D & Visual FX |
Animation Advisors
- Martha Gorzycki: Fine Arts 335 - gorzycki@sfsu.edu
Animation Minor - 15 units
Students completing the minor need to take 4 required courses totaling 12 units, and 3 additional elective units.
The Minor in Animation's learning objectives strives to enable students to:
- Acquire basic skills in the formal and critical analysis of animation (including representations of race, class, gender and sexuality), focused by the analysis of representative works from a range of periods and cultures.
- Gain basic understanding of the relation of animation to other arts, to the development of new technologies, and to the industrial-social basis of domestic and international cultural production.
- Acquire the basic technical skills necessary for cinematic expression with animation.
- Develop basic skills in the organization and creation of meaningful form and content in animated works.