Friday October 25th

Hello wonderful animation class!

One person from each group must leave a comment below at the end of the day and tell me what each group accomplished. I have notes from Wednesday's class indicating next steps and where you were. So let me know the following:

1. Status of audio (complete, 90% complete, still need specific items such as ...)
2. Tracks include in audio (such as voice narration, X amount of sound effects, music...)
3. Status of artwork (complete, out of 5 characters X amount complete)
4. Background is (complete, almost complete)
5. Quality of art (characters/background) is representative of advanced high school, proficient high school, 6th grader, 3rd grader.
6. Have you rehearsed your animation yet? Yes/No.
7. Are you ready to shoot your animation next week?
8. What problems are you having or concerns?

Do not waste time today. The current due date for this project is November 8th, completely edited with sound effects and all intended animated scenes. This date is plenty of time for completion of a quality project. Anything handed in later will be graded down one full mark for each block period it is late.

Character Personality

How can an animator reveal a character's personality? To help answer this, think about an animated character from a TV Show or Film. How would you describe the personality of that character? How was that personality revealed in the TV Show or Movie?

Friday reflective question

For GarageBand/Final Cut artists:

1. Today your goal is to record the narration for your story. Once the narration is recorded you can take that file and extract information from it that will be very valuable for your animators. What information can you obtain from playing your file that will be valuable for the animators?

For animators:

1. Today you will create a simple storyboard that will provide a guideline for you as to the amount of time each scene will take. Once you know that, you will determine your 'framerate'. Framerate is how many frames per second, or how many drawings per second are needed to animate your story. What information does the audio file have that may help to guide your storyboard design in terms of scene development, timing and drawings per second of animation?

The Art of Stop Motion Animation

 At the end of your work today you will answer this survey individually. Make sure to start your survey at least 20 min prior to the end of class. CLICK HERE

Introduction:

There are many methods that can be used to create animation. They all start with 'the art'. For the month of October we will explore the earliest influential animators, their art and their method of animation known as Stop Motion, which is still practiced today. To better understand stop motion you will create your own stop motion animation. You will begin this project on Friday. Today you will read about stop motion and complete a short feedback survey about what you have learned.

You will learn about one of the earliest animators, Lotte Reiniger who was German and practiced animation prior to Disney and most major studios in the United States.

Classwork:
Remaining in your current groups, please read/watch the following websites and movies. At the end of your research (you may work in groups to watch the movies), please take the survey linked above.

(some groups notes-Jacob please join Connie and Emily Che to form a group of 3, Bala, Joshua Han and Yuhun should form 1 group)

Lotte Reininger-read the short paragraph, watch the first 8min movie all the way through
Tim Burton talks about Stop Motion
More Tim Burton about Frankenweenie

Vine's Animator Khoa
Construction Paper 1
Red Riding Hood
Love's making it's way back home
Halloween Candy
More Group Construction Paper Projects