Animation

SLIDES

Animation Lesson Google Slides

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”

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. You will start by creating a storyboard to plan your sequence – use this template. 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/photo of the completed storyboard
• The After Effects project file (.aep)
• The rendered video file (.mov)
• A short statement. Use this template.

Grading Rubric