Animation

SLIDES

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18TJiYIqbDEhNkdrdHAnQkaG8B_3DNZ7heUMBcM-U63Y/edit?usp=sharing

IN-CLASS TUTORIALS AND ESSENTIAL RESOURCES

• Creating an Animation with After Effects
• The 12 Principles of Animation: The Illusion of Life on Vimeo
• Storyboard template

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

• Official Adobe tutorials
  • Adobe Photoshop User Guide “Video Animation Overview”
  • Adobe Photoshop Tutorials “Create an Animated Gif”
  • Adobe Photoshop User Guide “Create Frame Animations”
  • Adobe After Effects Tutorials “Get to know the After Effects interface”
  • Adobe After Effects User Guide “Composition Basics”
  • Adobe After Effects User Guide “Animation Basics”
• Creating an Animated Gif tutorial
• 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

ANIMATORS WHO WORK ABSTRACTLY

• Oskar Fischinger Kreise
• Len Lye Clips from “Kaleidoscope”, “Colour Flight” and “A Colour Box”
• Ying Tan Haiku.7

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENTS AND RUBRIC

Animated words and emotions

Create an animation in After Effects that uses abstract shapes, colors, and text to describe an emotion. Make a composition in After Effects that is 10 seconds long, with the HDTV 1080 29,97 preset. Your composition should include solids, text, and shape layers. Animate some of these properties: opacity, position, scale and rotation. After you have completed and saved your project, add it to the Render Queue and render it out to Quicktime (.mov).

Here are two examples:

• https://vimeo.com/249525380
• https://vimeo.com/249095449

Upload the following to blackboard:

• A scan of the completed storyboard
• The After Effects project file (.aep)
• The rendered video file (.mov)
• A short statement. Use this template.

Grading Rubric