ADA203 - Interactive Animation Design Studio

Unit details

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Year:

2022 unit information

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Last updated: 4 March 2022

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne)
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Simeon Taylor
Cohort rule:

Nil

Prerequisite:

Students must have completed 4 units at level 1

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 3-hour seminar per week

Scheduled learning activities - cloud:

1 x 3 hour online seminar per week (livestreamed with recordings provided)

Content

This unit is an experimental studio based class exploring new innovative technologies relating to interactivity, AR, and VR. Students get the opportunity to make use of these technologies in combination with skills they've gained elsewhere to create exciting and novel design solutions. The main output of the unit is a major project responding to an open brief allowing students to develop their own interests within design, 3D animation and interactivity.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Demonstrate knowledge in designing and creating interactive applications, involving various methods of input and output

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO3: Digital literacy

ULO2

Research and innovate taking conceptual ideas and applying them to solve a given brief

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO3

Disseminate and pitch working proposals to given briefs, researching existing examples in the world

GLO2: Communication

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO4

Show an awareness of the importance in working collaboratively with their peers, to solve challenges presented through a brief

GLO5: Problem solving

GLO7: Teamwork

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - Investigations   40% Week 4
Assessment 2 - Pitch   20% Week 6
Assessment 3 (Group) - Project   40% Week 12

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.

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