Homework for Mon, Feb 27th & Wed, March 1st:

Monday:

Next week, we will begin our exploration of post production methods! I realize you have a lot to accomplish in your films, but remember that these are working projects, meaning we can stack goals, and use the art you've created to learn new techniques!

To do so, I need you to accomplish the following:

• Render videos of every scene you have accomplished. Also have a rendered video of your animatic.
• Make a list of audio that you think your scene will need.  The week after next will be our audio production week!
• Create tentative color palettes swatches for your character and environment! The easiest way to do this is to draw your characters and environment in a separate ToonBoom file, or screenshot your art and import it into a new file, but as long as the end result is a clean digital image, I'm okay with you using other software like photoshop, illustrator, and the like.
• You can use this link to get a reminder on how to select swatches and paint your art!

In addition to this, I want you to produce the following:

Based on our in-class instruction, I want everyone to follow these SIX steps:

1. Make a list of these 5 emotions: Joy, Rage, Confusion, Desperation, and Determination.
2. Draw some sketches on what you think would be appealing drawings for these 5 emotions!
3. Take your best sketches and use them to direct a friend to act out these poses for you!
4. Photograph your friend, and draw 5 cleaned-up black and white drawings of these poses! That means ink these drawings traditionally or digitally! Go for realism with animated, dynamic posing that is clear and easy to read!
5. Be sure to capture their likeness to the best of your ability, as well as the clothing they are wearing!
6. (It goes without saying, but lots of clothing that hides the body will make this project harder to do and will make your drawings weaker. If you are drawing people wearing lots of body-hiding clothing, I will expect you to capture the drapery with accuracy!)
7. Bring the photographs, and scanned versions of these drawings to class! I will have a folder for you on the server named "OBSERVATION_DRAWINGS" to add them to!

Extra credit for anyone that does a realistic version of each person and a caricatured version (the caricatured version is extra credit!)

This is to help you boost your appeal and animation posing skills

FOR WEDNESDAY:

On Wednesday, I will need a sample of your work-in-progress film to grade for midterms! I'll use the weekend to give you an overall performance report of your skills, what you do well, what you need to work on, and where to go from there!

In the MIDTERMS FOLDER, I will need the following:

• Your Animatic.
• Your Storyboards.
• Black and White, Cleaned Up, Finalized Environment and Character Designs.
• 18 Seconds of Clean, Cleaned-Up Key Animation!
• Please remember that the original goal for this project was for everyone to be able to produce 18 to 24 seconds of quality, compelling, animation!  I realize projects are at the 30 second range due to pauses, holds, and the like. This is fine! Animation is a process, and this project is designed to have a milestone for the class, and a larger milestone for you to reach outside of it. Turn in your 18 seconds on Wednesday, and you're good to go... for now. ;) This is your chance to catch up and get ahead of the game! Do your best!