Notes for today, and Homework for Monday, March 18, 2019

“HOW TO DO THINGS THE WAY YOU WANT TO DO THEM (career, art, skills, etc.)”

• 1. Find and know your heroes and heroines (the people that have made the art you want to make).
• Resources:
• Tumblr
• Facebook
• Youtube, and other video sites.
• Bechance
• LinkedIn! - A great way to see official artists CURRENTLY WORKING in positions you are interested in!
• 2. Find a visual language (style) for your film that gives you both the time and “look” you want to develop in your own artwork!
• Don’t JUST look for a look that only looks great, or a look that is “easy enough to do.” Find a balance between both methods!
• If you stick to what you already know how to do (how you currently draw, or paint or color, etc.)  You will create the elements you know how to create well, but anything outside your skill set will be heavily difficult for you to do, and you will probably ignore trying to get better because you are in your “COMFORT ZONE.”
• 3. Keep it as simple as you can!
• SERIOUSLY.
• A “strong” idea is not necessarily always a “complex” one. It can also be a streamlined thought executed at a high level, or a tiny idea that is spoken in a way that the MAXIMUM number of people understand it.

ASSIGNMENT FOR MARCH 18th, 2019

• Come to class with the following:
• A FULLY developed storyboard in Storyboard Pro. Export a PDF of your storyboards!
• A FULLY developed animatic from storyboard pro. Export a movie file of your animatic!
• CHARACTER designs including
• model sheets
• sheets of facial expressions and character poses of your character doing “stuff”
• environment designs of the places your characters WILL be in your film
• Color your model sheets and designs! Your animatic can be black and white with greyscale shadow in areas. (refer to the examples on the blog)
• Remember I have added a Resources folder on the server that contains items that will help you on your preproduction journey!