Snow Day Today

Class has been canceled today, due to the weather.

The above still is from Paul Grimault's Le Petit Soldat (1947)

Welcome, and first assignment

Welcome to the blog for the animation class at SNC. Your first assignment -- due next Wednesday -- has two parts.

1. Make a flipbook. A pad of sticky notes might be a good thing to use. Show something that involves some action (or series of actions); or show an object from several points of view; or show something transforming into several other things. The subject matter is really wide open -- just have fun drawing.

2. Start your dream journal. Write down what you remember of your dreams (useful images might percolate out of this). You will be asked to share one of these dreams next class.

Also, by next class you need to have your portable drive and your sketchbook (you can keep your dream journal in your sketchbook).

Lastly, if you'd like a copy of the syllabus, you can download one here:
http://www.box.com/s/dqbpqrx3k157v8pi9agz


The image above is from a cartoon directed by Tex Avery

What's due on Wednesday's final

For the final, I'll want your fla and swf files for all the animation project's you've done this semester:

1. Abstract/Music animation
2. Characters interacting animation
3. Rotoscope animation
4. Final animation

Remember, for your final animation:

1. It should have a title and credits.
2. You should, on the top layer, have a masking rectangle (preferably black) with a hole cut into it at the exact stage size -- so that if the swf plays on a screen with a different aspect ratio than your animation's aspect ratio, no one will see all the symbols that are "offstage."

During the final, we'll screen your final animations, and I'll also screen an animated feature for your to write an in-final response to, looking at elements we've been talking about in class: shots, images, character design and acting.

End-of-term eval link

Here's a link to the end-of-term evaluation:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Chris_Lanier_DART_215

Animation Final

The animation final will be at:

Wednesday (Dec. 8) 3pm-6pm

Audio resources

The Free Music Archive:
http://freemusicarchive.org/

Opsound:
http://opsound.org/

The Free Sound Project:
http://www.freesound.org/

Wednesday: four sketches and paragraph

Reminder: four developed sketches giving an idea of the style of your final animation are due at the beginning of class on wednesday, along with your paragraph describing your idea.