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During the first 5 weeks, here is your assignments and how you will be assessed:

Assignment Due Grade Type Submit:
1. Class/Online Participation week 1-5 20% Individual Via chat and class
2. Review of Animation Piece week 3 15% Individual Your website & webx
3. Story Pitch week 4 30% Team or Individual In class
4. Your Web Log week 5 35% Individual On Your Website

 

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. Review of Animation Piece

Please review an animation short or movie of your choosing. Detail in min 1/2 page, max 1 full page it based on the following criteria:

  1. How it relates to you (inspired you in what way, what part would you use in your work).
  2. Discuss the animation style used in the piece (why that style for that piece).
  3. How does the piece relate in an historical sense to other work (animation, film, art).

 

3. Story Pitch

Your team (or you individually) will be creating a computer animation short by the end of this course. At week 4, your team needs to pitch your idea to the class. You will do a short (3-5 minute) pitch to the class discussing the story idea and for teams: the timeline,milestones and roles. The goal here is to convey the idea to others. You will be assessed by the following criteria:

  1. Quality of the story idea.
  2. How well you conveyed you idea to the class.
  3. How well your idea is fits the production time and team (doability).

 

4. Your Web Log

During the entire course you will be keep an ongoing web log of you ideas, inspirations, sketches, narratives, color schemes, storyboards, animation tests ... ( more on this in class).
At week 5, you will present your animation web log, to date, to the instructor during class. Among other things, you need to have a short produced piece based from your in-class 3ds modeling work in your web log. That is you will take the model(s) you have made and create a narrative artifact using 3ds MAX. Depending on your level this could be an image, a group of images, a short animation, etc.; created with 3ds MAX that tells a story or creates a narrative spark or inspiration to its viewer. It should be a way of experimenting with qualities you want to achieve in your final animated short -- a foreboding feeling, a surreal object, whatever you want to begin to convey in your final piece. Web Logs (i.e. a website on your personal site dedicated to this class) will be reviewed in class 5 by the instructor.