Due Next Thursday: March 5th, 2015

1. Have your film storyboarded with your animatic! I will provide notes on producing this via review for thursday!
• The best thing you can do is showcase a timed animatic with your story, so we can get a feeling of the story's flow.  You can show this in addition to walking through your storyboards and characters step by step. If you want to provide a dialogue scratch track, you can make time later this week to record one! You could be super low-key with dialogue, and record some rough samples with the mac computers, or your own phones.
• You also have one person in your group from the sound class, you could coordinate with them to use our sound equipment if you choose as well.
2. Have all production materials complete with color! These include:
• Character Designs (with turnarounds)
• Environment Designs
• Your Design Document.
• Additional art you have created to better flesh out the story.
3. Have your pitch 100% ready! We will start at 4:35, no exceptions.
• Properly package your materials in a folder on a flash drive, or on the server so you can pitch clearly and best showcase your story for green-lighting.
• ADVICE:  Practice your pitch! Remember I am allocating 10 minutes for each pitch.  You probably want to complete your pitch in 7 minutes, so you have 3 minutes of flexible time. (You always take longer than you realize in the actual pitch)
4. CREATE THESE MATERIALS
• Due Thursday
• Print 15 copies of your script so everyone has one for review!
• Print 3 copies of your storyboards with the format, (3-Panel Horizontal)
• And 3 copies of your storyboards with the format, (Overview)
• This way, we can review the story, and the materials after you speak!
• Export storyboards to PDF in the following formats.
• 3 Panel Horizontal
• Overview
• Full-Page (You can use the full page version to enhance your pitch!)
• Create a design document for drawing your characters! I.E. a "how to draw guide."  This must be turned in by everyone on wednesday, and those who have approved stories will give it to their teammates for review.
5. Post to your blog write-ups and videos of the final version of every assignment you have completed and want to be graded, no later than 4:35 Thursday! Videos will be uploaded to youtube or vimeo, and posted to your blog. I will be grading your organization as part of your midterm grade!
1. I need posts on the following:
1. Your Ten Second test we did in class (will finish in a moment)
6. Post to the server, in the designated folder, video and image files of each assignment!

You all have the potential to be great artists and storytellers. Everyone has a skill to lend to the animation process. GIVE IT YOUR ALL THIS WEEK!  This is your first foray into a professional career setting for animated short production!  I look forward to seeing what we bring to class for thursday!  I will review storyboarding next class for those who need it! My office hours will be dedicated to review and asking questions about this process, so anyone who chooses to stay is allowed to ask me any question in the world about creating animated films!