Optics for Animation Artists

摘要“动画艺术家的光学”项目正在开发和评估课程材料，用于教授光学艺术学生，特别是那些主修动画，插图和相关领域，如建筑，工业设计，平面设计，新媒体和美术。圣何塞州立大学的研究小组汇集了两位在这一领域具有丰富经验的物理学家和两位非常活跃的动画和插图艺术家，该项目正在全球公认的旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区动画地区完成。在专业动画师的爆炸性领域中，许多人将其工艺的技术方面视为其行业中最快速发展（现在不可或缺）的组成部分。动画和插图专业的学生敏锐地意识到这些趋势，并了解他们未来的职业需要他们有越来越广泛的接触科学。该项目创建视觉资产（插图，视频等），制作带注释的幻灯片，设计课堂演示和工作室活动，制定照明项目，然后将所有这些元素组合到讲座包和教程中。开发的材料正在三种环境中进行测试：作为现有艺术课程中的嵌入式讲座，作为特殊的大师班研讨会，以及专门为动画师和插画师设计的新开发的通识教育物理课程。该项目正在改变本科科学教育的一部分，将物理科学的这一方面直接带给积极主动和服务不足的观众，即没有高级科学课程所需的数学背景的艺术家。正在制作的模块受到仔细评估，使美国艺术教育的广泛影响，并鼓励他们在其他文科类，侧重于科学和艺术的使用。

ABSTRACTThe "Optics for Animation Artists" project is developing and assessing curricular materials for teaching optics to art students, in particular those majoring in animation, illustration, and related fields such as architecture, industrial design, graphic design, new media, and fine arts. The San Jose State University group brings together two physicists of considerable experience in this area with two very active animation and illustration artists, and the project is being completed within the globally recognized animation region of the San Francisco Bay area. Many within the exploding field of professional animators identify the technological facet of their craft as the most rapidly advancing (and now indispensible) component of their industry. Animation and illustration students are keenly aware of these trends and understand that their future careers require them to have an increasingly broad exposure to science.The project creates visual assets (illustrations, videos, etc.), develops annotated slides, designs classroom demonstrations and studio activities, formulates lighting projects, and then combines all these elements into lecture packets and tutorials. Developed materials are being tested in three settings: as embedded lectures within existing art classes, as special Master Class workshops, and in a newly developed general education physics course designed specifically for animators and illustrators. The project is transforming one portion of undergraduate science education by bringing this aspect of physical science directly to a motivated and underserved audience, namely artists without the mathematics background required by advanced science courses. Modules being produced are subject to a careful assessment to enable a broad impact on U.S. art education and also to encourage their use in other liberal arts classes that focus on science and the arts.