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Lucas Green

Sessional Faculty

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Education:

BMA, ECU

Bio

Lucas is a Vancouver-based animator and illustrator. A prairie boy turned west coast wanderer, Lucas collaborates with clients around the world to create striking, character-driven visuals for film, TV and print. He is the co-creator of the webcomic The Constant Star and illustrator of the award-winning graphic novel King Warrior. His work in film and TV includes the SyFy series Vagrant Queen and Astrid and Lilly Save the World, and Tubi Originals Z-Suite, Slay, Invasive and Invasive II: Getaway.

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Research Interests

Lucas’ professional practice is deeply process-oriented. Through his teaching, he seeks to remove creative barriers to encourage frictionless animation and design workflows. Driven by an interest in the intersections of language, mythology and science, he is currently working on a short film, based on Korean folklore, that explores and supports language revitalization efforts of the endangered Jeju dialect.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
2D Animation 2DAN 200 26/FA

Description

Through the observation and analysis of movement, students learn ways to create animated motion by studying introductory animation principles. Individuals work on a series of short assignments that support lecture topics. A particular focus is placed on drawn animation, where students create rough line-tests, critique work in class, make corrections to their animation, etc. A variety of important films are presented, relating contextually to lecture topics.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

2D Animation 2DAN 201 26/FA

Description

Students are introduced to two-dimensional animation production methods and learn introductory-level 2D computer animation concepts and techniques. Through a series of creative projects, students explore drawn animation rendering methods, as well as scanning, digital imaging, compositing, interpolated movement, digital puppets, and the fundamentals of digital video production. At the end of the course, students are versatile with a range of digital production techniques that form the core workflow modalities of animation production.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

2D Animation 2DAN 401 26/FA

Description

Senior Animation Production Lab I supports technical aspects of production methodologies for animation filmmaking. The course supports the progressive development of 4th year animation projects, and covers design and prototyping of animation materials and methods, animation, production workflows, colour management, design for colour grading and output media formats, and sound design and production. Students learn to connect creative research with known and emerging technologies, and to scope and design an animation film project using industry production standards, in preparation for a variety of exhibition settings.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.