The Department of Animation was set up in 2011 to train talent for the cultural creative industries and to promote the digital content industry. The Department regularly holds international animation festivals, symposiums, forums, workshops and other activities. Its long-term goal is to nurture generations of professionals for making animation feature films to advance Taiwan’s animation film and TV industry. A. Educational Objectives To cultivate humanistic qualities, social concern and professional ethics on animation and technical talents. To foster the technological knowledge and skills in modern animation through domestic and international professional information related to animation learning, technology, aesthetics and practice. To foster the animation creative talents for cultural and creative industries. B. Basic Skills Indicators Artistic and humanistic qualities: have appreciation abilities for all types of art forms and aesthetics.. International and multicultural perspective: understand cultural diversity and localization and develop a global vision and transboundary thinking. Communication and teamwork: develop narrative and expression abilities and strengthen the students’ communication and teamwork. Social concern and ethics: enhance the commitment for the social environment and have work ethics. C. Core Capabilities Image thinking and analytical skills: use visual language, analyze film composition and artistic perspective, cultivate individual thinking and creative ability. Story-telling ability and creativity for animation: have basic professional skills in diverse story-telling and animation making. Professional skills and innovative ability: familiar with the professional knowledge and the integration of the latest digital production technology with the animation creativity. Digital technology and interdisciplinary abilities: comprehensive digital art learning and creative ability in an interdisciplinary art. The development ability for animation art: foster art creativity and originality and develop proactive animation creation. D. Facilities Computer Classroom Academic machines: ASUS A500 Work Station x 45 units Digital Non-linear Effects Editing Computer: ＡSUA ESC2000 Work Station x 2 units 2 x Socket LGA1366 QPI 4.8 / 5.86 / 6.4 GT/s IntelR XeonR X5600 Series intelR AC5520 (36D) Intel ICH10R I/O Controller Total Slots: 18 (Triple channel memory architecture) Capacity Maximum up to 144GB (RDIMM) Memory Type: DDR3 800/1066/1333 Reg DIMM/ Unbuffered DIMM with ECC Memory Size: 8G 1 x PCI-E x16 (Gen2 X 16 Link)--Slot5 1 x PCI-E x16 (Gen2 x16 Link)--Slot6(MIO Slot for Audio) 1 x PIKE Slot for Stroage expansion Total PCI/PCI-X/PCI-E Slots: 6 Slot Type: PCI-E x8 (Gen1 X4 Link) (Auto disable if PIKE slot is occupied) 1 x PCI32 1 x PCI-E x16 (Gen2 x16 Link) (Auto switch to x8 Link if slot 4 is occupied ) 1 x PCI-E x16 (Gen2 X8 Link)---Slot 4 1 T SATA HDD Nvidia Quadro 2000 (1G) VGA: On Board VGA: Aspeed AST2050 8MB CUDA Support: Up to 2 x Tesla C2050/C2070 or 1 x Tesla C1060 + 1 x any Qaudro Card Multi-GPU Support: Support ATI® CrossFireX™ technoloy, up to Dual CrossFireX LAN: 1 x Dual Port Intel 82576EB (VMDq) + 1 * Mgmt LAN Realtek ALC262 Drawing Classroom Proffesional Animaiton Desk x 45 units Wacom Bamboo 4'x6' x 45 units Photography Classroom Canon 600D EOS Canon 60D EOS Canon EF-S 18-55 mm IS lens Canon EF-S 55-250 mm IS lens Canon EF-S 18-135 mm ISlens Canon EF-S 15-85 mm UAM lens KENKO KCM-1100EX Photometer