IAT
241 "Animation" -
Welcome
3D
Animation using Alias Maya, the course is both a:
1.
Conceptual Course
The Constructed Image
Media History, Age
of Virtuality
Team Production Process
The Creative Process
2.
Studio Course
Project: Animated Art Short Alias
Maya Art of Animation
Today:
Review
Course Details: Instructors, Sections, Grading, Assignments
Past course work (mechanics and projects to inspire and
instruct you)
Review major themes of course
Instructors:
Steve DiPaola - 20 yrs of anim research,
artist, Electronic Arts, ...
Sara Coldrick - Animator (ECAID), visual artist and culture theorist,
...
TA
( teaching Assistant):
K J Lee - extensive animation experience
- PhD student in animation/ui
It's
all on the website!!
www.sfu.ca/iat241
See Course Details Page here
~~~
~~~
~~~
~~~ ~~~
~~~
~~~
~~~
Instructors and section breakdown ( who is your teacher!)
Project and Maya (where)
Assignments & Weekly work
Teams ; Sections & Web Log
Past Examples,
Past work
Animation Screening
Course
Major Themes:
The
Team Production Process : Games, Films, Animated Films, New Media
The resources and constraints
Creative brainstorming
Pitching your ideas, solidify your ideas
Progressively
iterative design:
Start:
many,big designs (sketch metaphor)
~ slowly
progressing to though ~
END
Few, small changes (LOTR:
Jackson)
Story boards, Animatics, to Final Projects
The Creative Process
Narrative, visual, conceptual, historical
History of Media and Technology
Theatre > PhotoPlay > Cinema
> Animation
Technology is simply the first in experimenters : murals,
cinema, animation
Borrowing from the part: Constrains and Conventions
Age of Virtuality
Real is not better! Real is home
video! Real
The constructed visual : expression and convention
Animation
Screening : time permitting
3D animation - Bingo
by Landreth - Geri's
Game by Pixar