Class 23 Tues Apr 11
- Submit Project 3, Critique and Discussion
- Drawing Exercise - gradients and graphic effects
- Drawing Exercise - animation principles
- Assignments
- Language of New Media Chapter 5 pp. 244-285
- Announcements:
- MAGD Expo: Submission Due April 24 (Online)
- TBD
- Time Wasters:
Project 3 Submission, Critique and Discussion
Work will be collected in the Project 3 Dropbox at the beginning of class. You will need to submit one PDF and one PNG. You will also need to hang the digital print of your artwork in the studio. After submission, the work will be downloaded and prepared for critique and discussion.
Topics for consideration during critique:
- Visual Hierarchy: Title, Interface, Background
- Design principles and consistency with style, Unity
- Lettering legibility
- Title screen layout: stylistic and aesthetic relationship with game
- Usability, Potential for Motion/Movement, etc
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.
Demonstration: Gradients and Graphic Effects
- Gradient Fill
- Radial & Linear
- Start/Stop Points
- Color & Transparency
- Gradient Tool
- Effect -> Stylize
- Inner Glow
- Outer Glow
- Feather
- Drop Shadow
- Mix & Match - Complex Styles from More than One
- Gradient and Effects tend towards realism
- Used as visual reference to Light and Shadow Effects: Modelling
Animation Principles
In class we will screen a short video that describes the 12 Principles of Animation.
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.
- Draw a typographic character
- Pick a letter - any letter
- We will use these thumbnails/storyboard for reference later on or next class
- Bouncing
- Each storyboard image should show the letter moving within the frame
- Letter should hit the edges of the frame
- Letter bouncing around the composition
- Animation Principles
- Squash and Stretch
- Dynamic Motion
- Bezier Curve Motion VS Linear Motion
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.