Animation Exercise
Due: Monday 10/6 at beginning of the class!
Art 116 Intro to Digital Media - Fall 2014
UNIT 4 - Animation Exercise
The New Life of the GIF - Learning animation techniques
DUE: Monday 10/6
Due on a page called “Animation - Exercise” under your personal web page on the class website.
You will need to load your file to a video sharing site first to embed it on your page. Please, use You Tube unless you already have a video sharing site you use and prefer.
You need to start this process on Sunday at the latest! Don’t put it off until midnight the night before!
Then just as in the Blog: Animation you will need to use the embed code to place it on your page.
Objective:
Create a Basic Animation with Photoshop
Materials:
Animation has several meanings. For some its full scale movies that are hand drawn, others are set of images blended together in a sequence to be one after another. Think like Claymation or stop motion. With internet, animations have a new purpose. In early internet you can find them on nearly every home page of a heart dancing around or a mail box continuously opening with the text “you got mail”, and the birth of the GIF. The GIF is a bitmap image format (think raster and pixel) that supports animation and transparency. Fun Fact, the creator of the GIF file format says it is pronounced more like “jiff” the peanut butter, rather than the popular hard G sound like in the word “graphic”.
Task:
Put together some images, either shoot new ones or steal some from the internet.
Open New Document.
Name: YOURNAME_AnimationExercise
Size: Width 6” Height 4”
Resolution: 72DPI
PLEASE REFER TO THE BELOW PDF FOR THE REST OF THE TUTORIAL.
THIS IS THE SAME
Art 116 Intro to Digital Media - Fall 2014
UNIT 4 - Animation Exercise
The New Life of the GIF - Learning animation techniques
DUE: Monday 10/6
Due on a page called “Animation - Exercise” under your personal web page on the class website.
You will need to load your file to a video sharing site first to embed it on your page. Please, use You Tube unless you already have a video sharing site you use and prefer.
You need to start this process on Sunday at the latest! Don’t put it off until midnight the night before!
Then just as in the Blog: Animation you will need to use the embed code to place it on your page.
Objective:
Create a Basic Animation with Photoshop
Materials:
- 4- 30 Images (you can use more if you have a reason)
- Photoshop
- Hard Drive
Animation has several meanings. For some its full scale movies that are hand drawn, others are set of images blended together in a sequence to be one after another. Think like Claymation or stop motion. With internet, animations have a new purpose. In early internet you can find them on nearly every home page of a heart dancing around or a mail box continuously opening with the text “you got mail”, and the birth of the GIF. The GIF is a bitmap image format (think raster and pixel) that supports animation and transparency. Fun Fact, the creator of the GIF file format says it is pronounced more like “jiff” the peanut butter, rather than the popular hard G sound like in the word “graphic”.
Task:
Put together some images, either shoot new ones or steal some from the internet.
Open New Document.
Name: YOURNAME_AnimationExercise
Size: Width 6” Height 4”
Resolution: 72DPI
PLEASE REFER TO THE BELOW PDF FOR THE REST OF THE TUTORIAL.
THIS IS THE SAME
| animation_exercise.pdf |
Animation Project
Art 116 Intro to Digital Media - Fall 2014
UNIT 4 - Animation Project
ANIMATION DUE: Monday 10/22
Due on a page called “Animation” under your personal web page on the class website. Must be embedded video on your page via You Tube or Vimeo.
ANIMATION WITH SOUND DUE: Monday 11/3
Objective:
Create an animation. Create one longer piece at least 30 seconds long
OR 3 smaller 10 second piece GIF’s.
Next Objective:
Start thinking about the sound you would like to add in the next project assignment
Materials:
-Still or Video Camera
-drawings or paintings
-Photoshop or Adobe Premier Pro
-Hard Drive
Project Overview:
Students will create an animation that tells a story; at least 30 seconds long or three 10 second GIFs. You can either use photoshop to create the GIFS or Adobe Premiere Pro for the longer animation. Think about how the place can evoke different feelings. Think about landscapes and people for your GIF of place. This can be done with, photographs, hand drawing (you could use Illustrator to create the images), a single image played with Photoshop filters or lighting tools, a blend of drawing/painting and images. Think outside of the box. The images MUST be original -- NO GOOGLE IMAGES. And a written statement to go along with the work saying your concept, research if any, the importance of the story, and how all of the ideas go along with the physical work.
PSD File Dimensions should be 72 DPI Minimum 4” by 6”.
Process:
- Research a location / build a location
- Think out technical issues that may arise - stability, lighting, time
- Think out the timeline and how the place may be viewed. SKETCH!
- Shoot Images
- Download images off SD Card, return camera if borrowed
- Open photoshop
- Sequence images, and adjust time viewed
- Test / rewatch
- Export
- Post to You Tube or Vimeo to get Embed code
- Post to personal website by A.M. due date.
Inquiry:
Are you creating a story line?
Does the animation loop or is a one time play?
What is the significance of the story?
What historical, cultural or literary references would be helpful to you in researching this kind of work?
How much does the viewer place his or her own histories into the work?
How could symbols be used to suggest places, people or communities?
Evaluation:
40 points possible on the IDM Grading Rubric
Must attend Critique to receive project credit.
| animation_project.pdf |
