Projeto tiras animadas: uma análise das estratégias de ensino-aprendizagem em animação baseadas no conceito de embodiment

Abstract

This work aims to reflect on the teaching of animation, in particular, on the animation of characters with a focus on the use of strategies that consider the subject's own body and their movements as a methodological basis, from the perspective of the embodied mind (GIBBS, 2005). The aim is, therefore, to verify whether and how the use of these strategies generate impacts on the teaching-learning process of animation, especially on the teaching-learning process of the introductory contents in the area. Therefore, the research was developed in three phases: the first occurred in the elucidation of the concepts about the development and production principles related to the performance of animated characters; on the perception of body movement staged from the process of embodying sensory information; and on the teaching-learning process based on studies from the neuroscientific field. The second phase consisted of the delimitation of the corpus of study that refers to the online content of the blog of the Extension Project Tiras Animadas of the Center for Studies in Image Design of the School of Design of the State University of Minas Gerais (ED/UEMG). This content consists, especially, of six experience reports on the teaching-learning processes in animation of characters whose methodology was based on aspects of the concept of embodiment, in addition to the short films produced – finished or not. The third phase consisted of empirical data analysis, developed from Bardin's (1977) content analysis structure, which consists of three stages: pre-analysis, material exploration and treatment of results, inference and interpretation. The analyzes developed point to a diversity of processes, considering the embodied experiences generated by the subjects involved in their production and teaching-learning practices. As well as the impacts produced with regard to the creation of animated performance from imagined performance, but also in the memorization and development of instrumental contents in animation from the use of staging, analysis and kinesthetic perception. Finally, it is expected that this work contributes to the field of study of the teaching-learning processes in Arts, in particular, in the perspective of teaching-learning the Art of Animation in dialogue with the field of cognitive sciences.