Sunday, June 14, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Monday, May 12, 2008
Posting swfs
How to post swfs to your website using dreamweaver.
A tutorial from the Adobe - Design Center.
A tutorial from the Adobe - Design Center.
Craig Frazier sketchbook online
Speaking of sketchbooks (or at least we were in class), look at 98 pages a site with a flash slideshow of sketches by Craig Frazier. It will make you completely jealous of his insane ability to show complicated emotions and concepts in the most elegantly simple way. . . AND it will probably make you want to draw more, which is a good thing.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Animatics
Animatics are really just your storyboard playing sequentially and timed to an audio track. They allow you to see you animation in embryo and fix any timing and framing errors early on. This animatic also becomes a working reel, where you can replace each shot with more finished graphics as you go along, but it keeps all the shots set in their sequence so you can see how they relate to the shots before and after.
Here is the clip I showed in class.
Here is the clip I showed in class.
Storyboards
Class,
So we need to get going on your final animations! Final animations are due on May 15, but there are steps we can do together along the way to help the process go smoothly. These final animations need to be 30 seconds long and may be funny and lighthearted and character driven, they can be dark and moody and use text and images without a character, they can be synched to dialogue or a song, they can make a political statement or advertise Lime Diet Coke, whatever you want! But I need to approve the idea. So Thursday, you're going to "pitch" your ideas to me and the class with a storyboard. I have not assigned a ton of homework for this class so I really and truly expect you to do this. . . ready at the start of class! Here are some storyboard links if you'd like to know more about storyboarding and see examples. . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard
http://www.storyboardseast.com/storybrd.htm
http://www.silvertonfilms.com/storyboard.htm
http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/
I'd like yours to be on blank index cards. . . they're easy to rearrange or you can discard and add new ones without messing up your sequence. Use a pencil or a marker, draw quick. This is to communicate your ideas and think through things like what is on screen, who is on screen, is it a close up shot or faraway shot, does the character move through the scene or does the camera pan across the background, etc. I would like the final animations to have some sound. Whether you base it on a movie clip for dialogue or synch to a cool song or just add sound effects for depth, whatever. I'm excited to see what you come up with! We'll see you on Thursday!
So we need to get going on your final animations! Final animations are due on May 15, but there are steps we can do together along the way to help the process go smoothly. These final animations need to be 30 seconds long and may be funny and lighthearted and character driven, they can be dark and moody and use text and images without a character, they can be synched to dialogue or a song, they can make a political statement or advertise Lime Diet Coke, whatever you want! But I need to approve the idea. So Thursday, you're going to "pitch" your ideas to me and the class with a storyboard. I have not assigned a ton of homework for this class so I really and truly expect you to do this. . . ready at the start of class! Here are some storyboard links if you'd like to know more about storyboarding and see examples. . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard
http://www.storyboardseast.com/storybrd.htm
http://www.silvertonfilms.com/storyboard.htm
http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/
I'd like yours to be on blank index cards. . . they're easy to rearrange or you can discard and add new ones without messing up your sequence. Use a pencil or a marker, draw quick. This is to communicate your ideas and think through things like what is on screen, who is on screen, is it a close up shot or faraway shot, does the character move through the scene or does the camera pan across the background, etc. I would like the final animations to have some sound. Whether you base it on a movie clip for dialogue or synch to a cool song or just add sound effects for depth, whatever. I'm excited to see what you come up with! We'll see you on Thursday!
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