Animation

Animation Playlist

Storyboard template PDF

Storyboard template JPG

Resources

• The 12 Principles of Animation: The Illusion of Life on Vimeo
• Toy Story – Storyboarding
• Production process: pre-production, production, post-production
• Adobe Animate Tutorials
• Adobe Photoshop Tutorials “Create an Animated Gif”
• Making-of videos:
  • The Bear and The Hare – Behind the 2D Traditional Animation
  • How Pixar created its most complex character yet for “Finding Dory” (CNET News)
  • “Coraline”: Featurette
  • Stop Motion Animation Explained in 2 minutes
• Storytelling: Pixar in a Box: The Art of Storytelling
• Oskar Fischinger Kreise
• Len Lye Clips from “Kaleidoscope”, “Colour Flight” and “A Colour Box”

Project

Animating an emotion

Create an animation in Adobe Animate that uses abstract shapes, colors, and text to describe an emotion. You will start by creating a storyboard to plan your sequence – use this template. Use Adobe Animate to make an animation between 10 and 30 seconds long. Use tweens to animated properties like position, size, color, opacity and others. The animation should have a beginning, middle and end.

Upload the following to Brightspace:

• The Adobe Animate project file (.fla)
• Story board file.
• Create an Open Lab post with the MP4 file embedded.
• Project statement
  • Project title
  • Semester and year created (Spring 2025)
  • Software and/or languages used
  • 3-4 sentence description of your creative and technical process. For example: What emotion did you decide to animate? Why did you choose these colors/shapes? How did you approach pacing/timing? What was the most challenging part of the project and how did you solve it? etc.