UCSC - Data-Driven Animation for Science Communication
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Data-Driven Animation for Science Communication at Coursera Overview
Duration | 28 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Data-Driven Animation for Science Communication at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion
- Add to your LinkedIn profile
- 5 quizzes, 6 assignments
Data-Driven Animation for Science Communication at Coursera Course details
- What you'll learn
- Learners will be able to replicate the data-driven animation process from conceptualization to asset creation, data visualization, and composition.
- Learners will be able to make informed decisions between available programs and techniques for visualizing data.
- Learners will be able to distill the methods, results, and implications of scientific research into an accessible, succinct, and impactful animation.
- In this course each student will create a scientific animation that tells a story with data to better communicate scientific results along the way they will learn programming, science writing, and technical animation skills.
- This course trains students in data-based storytelling that promotes research and science communication for the benefit of communities and policymakers on local and global scales. Students will draft a science writing script, create custom raster and vector graphics, data visualizations, and animations in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Autodesk Maya. For their final project, students will assemble these data-driven assets into an animated video abstract.
Data-Driven Animation for Science Communication at Coursera Curriculum
Week 1—Planning your animation
🎥 Course Overview part 1
🎥 Course Overview part 2
🎥 Course Overview part 3
🎥 Lecture: Intro to Data Visualization
🎥 Lecture: Before You Animate
🎥 Lecture: Conceptualization
🎥 Lecture: Storyboards
🎥 Lecture: Animatics
🎬 Animatics Tutorial #1 & #2: Creating an Animatic in Premiere Pro
🎬 Animatics Tutorial #3: Setting up your project
🎬 Animatics Tutorial #4: Importing Media
🎬 Animatics Tutorial #5: Choosing Sequence Settings
🎬 Animatics Tutorial #6: Adding media to timeline
🎬 Animatics Tutorial #7: Adjusting Image Size and Location
🎬 Animatics Tutorial #8: Adding Captions
🎬 Animatics Tutorial #9: Exporting your animatic
📓Welcome—How to Prepare for this Course
Background—A New Approach to Data-Driven Storytelling
📓How to Navigate This Course
📓Alternative Software
📓Project Ideas
📓Session 1 Overview: Collaboration
📓Lecture: Before you animate: Data Description
📓 Style Guide
📓 Audience
📓 Script
📓 File Organization
🎤 Recording Tips
📓 Session 2 Overview: Conceptualization
📓 Storyboard
📓Creating an animatic in Premiere Pro
📓List of Key Assets
📓Budget & Contract (optional)
🤔 Week 1 Exit Quiz
💥 Style Guide
💥 Script
👀 Storyboard & Animatic
💬Share Your Script (optional)
Budget & Contract (optional)
Week 2—Creating assets: illustrations & graphs
🎥 Lecture: Digital Art
🎥 Lecture: Digital Illustration part 1
🎥 Lecture: Digital Illustration part 2
🎬 Illustrator Tutorial #1: Creating Vector Graphics
🎬 Illustrator Tutorial #2: Setting up Canvas with Reference Image
🎬 Illustrator Tutorial #3: Automatic Image Trace Function
🎬 Illustrator Tutorial #4: Using the Pencil Tool
🎬 Illustrator Tutorial #5: Adding Stroke and fill
🎬 Illustrator Tutorial #6: Using the Pen Tool
🎬 Illustrator Tutorial #7: Illustrating an Animatable Face
🎬 Illustrator Tutorial #8: Finishing Touches
🎬 Illustrator Tutorial #9: Exporting Vector Graphic Files
🎬 Photoshop Tutorial #1: Setting up Image Properties
🎬 Photoshop Tutorial #2: Setting up Layers
🎬 Photoshop Tutorial #3: Clipping Masks
🎬 Photoshop Tutorial #4: Digital Painting
🎬 Photoshop Tutorial #5: Adding Layer Styles
🎬 Photoshop Tutorial #6: Exporting Raster Graphics
🎥 Lecture: Data Visualization
🎥 Lecture: Intro to Coding for Data Visualization
🎬 Data Visualization Tutorial #1: Quick Data Visualization using JMP
🎬 Data Visualization Tutorial #2: Editing PDF Export Figure in Illustrator
🎬 Data Visualization Tutorial #3: Fixing mysterious graphical artifacts
🎬 Data Visualization Tutorial #4: Editing Text and Axis Labels
🎬 Data Visualization Tutorial #5: Adding a Clipping Mask of your own
🎬 Data Visualization Tutorial #6: Exporting your illustrator file as a PNG
📓 Session 3 Overview: Digital Art & Design
📓 Session 4 Overview: Data Visualization
🤔 Week 2 Exit Quiz
💥Critique & Reflection: Animatics & Key Assets
💬 Share Your 2D Raster & Vector Graphics (optional)
💬 Share your Key Figure (optional)
Week 3—2D Animation with Adobe After Effects
🎥 Lecture: Animation & Motion Graphics
🎥 Lecture: Introduction to Animation
🎬 After Effects Tutorial #1: Intro to 2D Animation in After Effects
🎬 After Effects Tutorial #2: Importing Assets & AE Orientation
🎬 After Effects Tutorial #3: Working with Shape Layers
🎬 After Effects Tutorial #4: Animating Shape Paths & Colors
🎬 After Effects Tutorial #5: Adding Trim Paths and Line Effects
🎬 After Effects Tutorial #6: Adding Textures and Layer Blending Modes
🎬 After Effects Tutorial #7: Adding & Animating Illustrator assets
🎬 After Effects Tutorial #8: Parenting Layers
🎬 After Effects Tutorial #9: A Little Bit About Masks
🎬 After Effects Tutorial #10: Exporting Animation
🎥 Lecture: Animating 2D Data
🎥 Lecture: 2D Data-Driven Animation
🎬 Animating-Geospatial-DataTutorial
🎬 2D Data Driven AnimationTutorial #1: Composition Setup & Data Import
🎬 2D Data Driven AnimationTutorial #2: Animating 2D Data in After Effects
🎬 2D Data Driven AnimationTutorial #3: Composition Setup & Data Import
🎬 2D Data Driven AnimationTutorial #4: Add Visual Effects & Text
🎬 2D Data Driven AnimationTutorial #5: Make an Axis & Labels for Your Graph
🎬 2D Data Driven AnimationTutorial #6: Exporting Your 2D Animation
📓 Session 5 Overview: Animation & Motion Graphics
📓 Opening Activity: Animation Storyboard Sketch
📓 Session 6 Overview: Animating 2D Data
📓 Opening Activity: 2D Data Animation Storyboard Sketch
🤔 Week 3 Exit Quiz
💥 Review Animation Storyboard Sketch
💥 Review 2D Data Animation Sketch
💬 Sharing Your Scene With Motion Graphics (optional)
💬 Share Your Key Figure (optional)
Week 4—3D Animation with Autodesk Maya
🎥 Lecture: Introduction to 3D Animation
🎬 Animating a Locomotion Cycle Tutorial #1: Intro to 3D Animation in Autodesk Maya
🎬 Animating a Locomotion Cycle Tutorial #2: Working with Polygons
🎬 Animating a Locomotion Cycle Tutorial #3: Simple Animation
🎬 Animating a Locomotion Cycle Tutorial #4: Adding Lights
🎬 Animating a Locomotion Cycle Tutorial #5: Rendering with Arnold Renderer
🎬 Animating a Locomotion Cycle Tutorial #6: Narwhal Scene Exploration
🎬 Animating a Locomotion Cycle Tutorial #7: Creating Controls to Place & Pivot model
🎬 Animating a Locomotion Cycle Tutorial #8: Animating a Locomotion (Swim) Cycle
🎬 Animating a Locomotion Cycle Tutorial #9: Adding Offset for an Organic Animation
🎬 Animating a Locomotion Cycle Tutorial #10: Export Playblast from Maya
🎬 Animating a Locomotion Cycle Tutorial #11: Create mp4 Sequence of PNGs in AE
🎥 Lecture: Animating 3D Data
📓Coding Maya Tutorial #1: Introduction
📓 Coding Maya Tutorial #2: Script Editor
📓Coding Maya Tutorial #3: Connecting Swim and Glide Controllers
📓 Coding Maya Tutorial #4: Connecting Data to Animation
📓 Session 7 Overview: Intro to 3D Animation
Opening Activity: 3D Exploration in Maya
📓 Session 8 Overview: Animating 3D Data
📓 Code From Tutorial
🤔 Week 4 Exit Quiz
💬 Share Your Animated 3D Scene (optional)
💬 Share Your Data-Driven 3D Animation (optional)
Week 5—Final Composition: Editing and Communication Strategy
🎥 Editing & Compositing
Guest Lecture: Music Composition with Connor Vance
🎬 Editing & Compositing #1: Generating Automated Captions
🎬 Editing & Compositing #2: Linking After Effects Compositions
🎬 Editing & Compositing #3: Masking on 2D Graphics
🎬 Editing & Compositing #4: Editing Audio
🎬 Editing & Compositing #5: Example Final Composition
🎬 Editing & Compositing #6: Visualizing Sound
🎬 Editing & Compositing #7: Compositing and Animation in Linked Compositions
🎥 Final Critique & Communication Strategy
📓 Session 9 Overview: Editing, Compositing, and Custom Musical Scores
📓 Session 10 Overview: Communication Strategy
📓 Create Science Communication Strategy (optional)
🤔 Week 5 Exit Quiz: Self Reflection
💥 Science Communication Strategy (optional)
👀 Final Composition
💬 Update Your Storyboard (optional)
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