Homework for Monday, Jan 31, 2018

Note: This post will be updated with videos covering this week's assignment by Thursday sometime.

Homework for Monday:

Come to class with a fully developed animatic that showcases the following:

• your character, displaying convincing action.
• You should follow steps 1-7 that we have outlined for producing your animation:
• 1) Record Audio
• 2) Storyboard Core Actions (Key Drawings)
• start with 5 or 6 drawings on specific phrases
• add more where necessary.
• 3) Storyboard "Personality Drawings" that enhance core actions! (Breakdown Drawings)
• a good idea: 1 breakdown drawing for each key.
• 4) Begin mapping core mouth movements for lip-synching!
• refer to the pages in the Animator’s Survival Kit and the image below for notes on Lip-Synching
• Facial Flexibity: Pages 246-251 in A.S.K.
• Dialogue Chapter: Pages 304 - 326 in A.S.K.
• Draw “mouth flaps” for the core phrases! Remember that lip synching covers the main parts of the word, not every individual letter and syllable.
• 5) Add Lip-synching “Accents” for each phrase.
• In this step, you are drawing new panels, with only the head and mouth, and necessary parts of the body only, to accentuate your actions:  A good example of this can be found here, as well as in the distributed video on Thursday. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6JfNMbjlU#t=0m22s
• the idea is this: your breakdown and key drawings already have defined body poses. Take this time to focus on the head and mouth!
• Export a test of your animation.
• If it looks good, then start copying and pasting body poses from your keys and breakdown drawings.
• 6) Add In-between animation drawings!
• add drawings that flesh out the action! These will be flourishes and other movements that help push the action forward!
• 7) Clean up the animation!
• Go back over the animation on a new layer and clean up your lineart!

If you finish all of these steps, you should be able to come to class with a really professional, high-quality animatic that we can easily turn into a finished animation!

Write a paragraph about animated sequences you find on http://livlily.blogspot.com or other sites.

• make note of the following:
• body language: what words are emphasized in action?
• acting: how does the artist create a convincing performance? What parts of the animation are key poses/actions?
• flourishes: are there certain parts of the animation that serve as accent