GRADUATE DIPLOMA Programme in Animation Film Design
 
SEMESTER 4 Discipline
Sr.no
Course Title
Total Course Duration (Hrs)
1
 Visual Thinking
35
2
 Design Drawing for Animation 1
175
3
 Elements of Animation 1 (Typography)
70
4
 Introduction to Films (History of Cinema)
70
5
 Basics of Video 
140
6
 Digital Methods 4 (Toon Boom / US Animation)
105
7
 History of Art 2
70
8
 Inter Design Studies 4 (signs and symbols)
35
SEMESTER 5 Discipline
Sr.no
Course Title
Total Course Duration (Hrs)
1
 Elements of Animation 2 (Photography)
35
2
 Design Drawing for Animation 2 (Personality and Caricature)
140
3
 Elements of Animation 3 (Basic of Movement kinematics)
140
4
 Design Drawing for Animation 3 (Illustration)
70
5
 Animation Writing and Story Telling
35
6
 Elements of Animation 4 (Visual Scripting)
105
7
 Elements of Animation 5 (Time Laps)
35
8
 Digital Methods 5 (Toon Boom / US Animation Projects)
35
9
 Self Study Documentation (Indian Traditional Plastic & Performing Arts) (During Vacation)
70
10
 Inter Design Studies 5 (Transportation Graphics)
35
SEMESTER 6 Discipline
Sr.no
Course Title
Total Course Duration (Hrs)
1
 Open Elective
35
2
 Music Appreciation
35
3
 Elements of Animation 6 (Advance Kinematics)
210
4
 Script Writing
35
5
 Sound Design
35
6
 Editing 
70
7
 Elements of Animation 7 (Story Boarding)
140
8
 Elements of Animation 8 (Pixilation)
35
9
 Digital Methods 3 (Premier / FCP)
70
10
 Inter Design Studies 6 (Psychology)
35
11
 Industrial Internship (Extended in the Vacation) 
140
SEMESTER 7 Discipline
Sr.no
Course Title
Total Course Duration (Hrs)
1
 Elements of Animation 9 (Model Animation)
70
2
 Acting Workshop (Staging / Enactment / Performance)
35
3
 Project Management
35
4
 Project 1 (Non Narrative)
315
5
 Digital Methods 4 (3D max / Character Studio)
70
6
 Project 2 (Narrative or Non Narrative - Continue over 8th sem.)
140
7
 Inter Design Studies 7 (Spatial Design)
35
SEMESTER 8 Discipline
Sr.no
Course Title
Total Course Duration (Hrs)
1
 History of Design
35
2
 Project 2 (Continue from 7th sem.)
490
3
 Design Management
35
4
 Colloquium Paper
35
5
 Pre-Graduation Presentation
70
6
 Pre-Graduation Preparation (Research)
35
SEMESTER 9 Discipline
Sr.no
Course Title
Total Course Duration (Hrs)
1
 Graduation Project
560