iArtComputerAnimation
6-10 AssignmentPage

During weeks 6 - 10 here is your assignments and how you will be assessed:

Assignment Due Grade Type Submit:
1. Class/Online Participation week 6-10 20% Individual Via chat and class
2. Animation Flip Book week 8 -- optional (was 15%) (part of weblog)
3. Advanced Animatic week 10 30% Team or Individual In class

4. Your Web Log
-readings reflection
-logs
-updates
-optional flipbook or other

 week 10 50%

Individual

(with optional flipbook and other material)

 On Your Website

 

Weekly Reading Assignments:

You should read the material prior to that week's class, reviewing the chapter and answering any provided questions in your weblog. Your weblog assessment includes all the weeks reading reflection. Plan to do about 1/2 page per reflection.

Understanding Animation By: Wells, Paul . . . (two copies on reserve)
Paperback, Routledge ISBN: 0415115973 amazon.ca link

  Due Week 7 Web reading

Lasseter's Animation Principles

  
  Due Week 8 Wells Chap. 1 Thinking About Animated Film  
  Due Week 9 Wells Chap. 2 Notes towards a Theory of Animation  
  Due Week 10 Wells Chap. 3 Once Upon a Time: Narrative Strategies  
  Due Week 11 Wells Chap. 4 25 Ways to Start Laughing Week  
  Due Week 12 Wells Chap. 5 Issues in Representation  
  Due Week 13 Wells Chap. 6 Animation and Audiences  

 

Assignment Specifics

1. Class/Online Participation

You are expected to participate by coming to class an getting involved in class discussion as well as actively participating in the online discussion using the webX chat.

2. Flip Book

Create a flip book of at least 100 images.It must be created frame by frame. You can use traditional paper and pencil (recommended method) or a computer based flip book technique but again it must be frame by frame, also called "straight ahead animation", that is no interpolation or computer morphing allowed. More details in class. You will be evaluated by:

  1. Quality of drawing.
  2. Creativity.
  3. Quality of movement.

3. Advanced Animatic

Your team (or you individually) will be creating a computer animation short by the end of this course. At week 10, your team needs to be well under way with a complete advanced animatic. This is a movie sequence with dialog and sound (can be rough) of your animation short to date. The objective would be for your team to have in premiere-based movie with your sound in and all your scenes in with their final timings, with most, if not all scenes with full models and layout, possibly even some scenes with animation. This would leave you to animate and final render in the last module. We assume the teams will be on different stages of their animatic depending on their creative process and the details of their animated short. You will show your animation to the class on week 10. You will be evaluated by:

  1. A well produced milestone of your work to date. You will be evaluated on the quality of the piece.
  2. Does it conveyed the style, mood, timing, feeling and impact of your final piece.
  3. Does is show that you are in line with finishing your piece by week 15.

4. Your Web Log

During the entire course you will be keep an ongoing web log of you ideas, inspirations, sketches, narratives, color schemes, story boards, animation tests ... ( more on this in class). You will use this weblog to communicate with people on your team, with the class, your teachers and yourself. This module and next you will be adding your reviews of your reading assignments (see above) to your weblog activities. You should also continue updating it with you ideas and work weekly.

Weblog are where you put your reflections of each weeks reading assignments (see above), reviewing the chapter and answering any provided questions in your weblog. Your weblog assessment includes all the weeks reading reflection. Plan to do about 1/2 page per reflection.