Wednesday June 14

 

Class 19

Project 3 Work Session, Individual Meetings, Submission, and Printing

During the first portion of class, students will meet briefly with the professor and then work to complete Project 3. As the work is completed, it should be submitted online and those files will be printed for later critique and discussion.

 

Class 20

Project 3 Submission, Critique and Discussion

Work will be collected in the Project 3 Dropbox. You will need to submit one PDF and one PNG. After submission, the work will be downloaded and prepared for critique and discussion.

Topics for consideration during critique:

For critique we will work as a group to generate comments and feedback related to the issues listed above. If needed, the artist responsible for the work can clarify or answer questions. Our focus for this critique is more on response to the work than on the intent behind it.

 

Class 21

Drawing Exercise: Storyboard

Some storyboard paper will be avialable in class. You may also create some of your own storyboards in your sketchbook. The purpose of a story board is to generate large thumbnail sketches that help to establish how something will look at specific points of a time-based project. Our storyboards will be fairly simple in nature. Some storyboards will be printed for you to use, but can be found here, or drawn in a sketchbook.

You will want to draw a few storyboard images... somewhere between 4 and 6. In addition to showing the character in the frame, storyboard images usually include information about direction, camera movement, speed, dialogue, and other notes. For our purposes directional arrows would probably be enough. This part of the exercise is mostly about using sketches as a way to plan and visualize something that you could create digitally later on.

Software Introduction

We will use After Effects as our 2D animation software application. Although it is a highly complex compositing environment, we will us it for some very basic introductory explorations of animation. Our focus will be on basic transformation properties because they are the foundation of building animated sequences.

Drawing Exercise: Animated Forms

Animation and Software Crash Course!

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Project 4 Intoduction

Project 4 will incorporate elements of your previous work. It will also give you an opportunity to simulate game play action through 2D animation. After the project introduction, you may begin working on the project. However, the first demonstration for strategies related to the specific expectations of the project will be given in later class sessions.

 

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