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SUGGESTED RESOURCES
- “Things – Zoetrope”– Short video by Bre Pettis showing a Zoetrope in action
- “The MultiPlane camera”– Short Disney documentary from 1956
- Animation history:
- George Melies, “A Trip to the Moon” (1902)
- Emile Cohl, “Fantasmagorie” (1908)
- Winsor McCay “Gertie the Dinosaur” (1914)
- Otto Messmer, “Felix in Hollywood” (1923)
- Animation today:
- “A Man too Good to be True” (2015) – from the New York Times’ “Modern Love” series
- ‘Dumb Ways to Die’(2012) – Australian public service announcement campaign by Metro Trains
- “You’re Welcome”sequence from Disney’s Moana (combination of 2D and 3D) (2016)
- “Paper” (2015) – Honda “Add” by PES
- “The Girl Without Hands”(2016) – full feature film by Sebastien Laudenbach
- “Catch Me If You Can”(title sequence) (2002)
- “Your Name” (featurette) (2016) – by Makoto Shinkai
- “The Story of O.J”(2017) – Music Video from Jay-Z’s 4:44 album
- “Alto’s Odyssey” (trailer) (2017) – Mobile Game
ASSIGNMENT: FLIPBOOK
Create a 30 page (minimum) flipbook from index cards and a binder clip (distributed in class). Try drawing lightly with a pencil first to test the movement of your drawings, when it is right you might want to trace over with a marker. You can use color or black and white.
You might create a transformation of some kind (a ball turns into bird, which turns into the sun, which turns into an airplane, etc, etc), or depict a cataclysmic event, like a tornado or a volcano. Try and focus on the movement, don’t worry about each drawing being perfect. Animation is the relationshipbetween the drawings.
Planning is important, think about the story you want to tell with your drawings, the scale of objects, timing of changes.
Bring your completed flipbook with you to class next week.
The grading rubric for this assignment can be found here.
