The Assignment:
Your main project for this semester will be a very short animation.
The remaining time during the semester will be dedicated to developing a short sequence comprised of the deliverables listed below:
You have 14 weeks to complete the scene that includes the deliverables outlined below.
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2021 8-9:50 AM
Note: For this class, I am going to make it the student’s responsibility to determine due dates for various deliverables, with the exception of the Story, Thumbnails and the more formal Storyboard. I realize that the creative process is often not linear, and since we are all in a learning mode, it makes more sense for each student to determine their own schedule for recording voice overs, creating background, animating the characters.
Consider choosing a simple scene or an excerpt from a larger story.
You could choose a poem, a nursery rhyme or create your own short scene.
You will want to keep a narrow scope on sequence so that you will be able to complete all of the components into a competed animated scene in .mp4 by the end of the semester. Keep the number of characters to TWO (2) you can have other props, etc. that interact in the story, but to get all the items completed by semester end, keep it simple, but awesome. You’ll want to think about the style of illustration that you want to create. If you are using Character Animator to create the motion and lip-syncing for your dialog, I want you to customize the character an not use a pre-designed one.
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The deliverables components are:
1. A Storyline with a Script
[Word doc]
2. Preliminary Thumbnails
[Sketchbook]
3. Storyboard
[Sketchbook]
– Key Actions
– Sound Effects
– Dialog
– Music
– Camera Shots / Angles
4. Dialog / Record / Edit
[Audacity]
5. Animatic
[AfterEffects)
6. Character(s) Model Sheet
– Front
– Side
– Back
– 3/4 Front
– 3/4 Back
[Photoshop / Illustrator/ Character Animator]
7. Background Design
8. Animated Character
w/ Lipsync
– Customize Template
– Character Animator
9. Title & End Credits
10. Final Movie Sequence
Here are some videos that will help you get started:
Storyboards:
Staging & Camera Framing for Storyboards
Backgrounds