Project Description: As part of a production team recreate an early animation device; a Zoetrope. Investigate how this device works and how it makes the images seem to move.
Requirements:
Research
Phenakistoscope
Zoetrope
Praxinoscope
Persistence of Vision
Eadweard Muybridge
How does the Zoetrope work?
How does the Pixar Zoetrope work?
Recreate the zoetrope using the template provided and your imagination.
Project Description: Using an image that you either created from scratch or took yourself, use PhotoShop to slowly change it's appearance over at least 40 frames (layers). Animate the effects in iMovie.
Requirements:
At least one web ready animation
Three files in Completed Work:
iMovie Project
PhotoShop file (psd)
Quicktime file (mp4)
Instructions:
Take a photo or create your own image (640 x 480 or 500 x 500 pixels)
Open it in PhotoShop
Using ANY PhotoShop tools you choose, manipulate or morph the image a little at a time keeping each iteration on it's own layer
Save a copy of the file and resize the new file to ~640 x 480 pixels (size may vary depending on the original file aspect ratio)
Save each layer as a single JPG file (quality 5)
Name your files so that they will be in alphabetical order - using "0" in front of single digits
Create a QuickTime file using FrameByFrame
Open FrameByFrame (Only on newer MACs)
Import your images (CMD i or Edit/Import Images)
Duplicate, arrange etc your frames to create the animation you want
Set the fps (Frames Per Second)
Export your animation
(CMD e or File/Export)
Navigate to your folder
Name your animation
click "Export"
Choose compression mode H.264 (default)
click "OK
Go to your folder, find your movie and test it.
Project 3 - Cut Out
Project Description: Using cut out paper, felt or fabric and your imagination tell a short (10 to 20 seconds) animated story. Shoot the frames with a digital camera and output the final animation using iMovie.
Requirements:
Story Idea
StoryBoard
Completed .mov file between 10 and 20 seconds long before intro and credits
Intro and Credits
Instructions:
Use a digital camera and a copy stand
Set camera to-
1200 x 1600 pixels
indoor light
Import the individual images into iMovie
Add a title and credits to your animation and export using same iMovie settings as the previous project for the web
Using Actions in PhotoShop to crop, rotate, resize and add contrast:
Put all the images that need the same actions together in a single folder
Make a copy of the folder
Duplicate a typical image and put it in a diferent folder
Completed .mov file between 10 and 20 seconds long before intro and credits
Instructions:
Useful Links:
Project 7 - Flash
Project Description: Use Flash to create an animation using the given first and last frames. Incorporate squash and stretch techniques and synchronized sound effects.
Requirements:
General:
Research the life, ideas and art of Rube Goldberg
Study Rube Goldberg's "inventions" and the Blue Ball Factory animation to come up with 2 or 3 scenes for the given ball symbol to go through
Create and pitch your storyboard
Files: Four files:
One fla
One swf
One html
One 150 x 150 pixel thumbnail (either jpg or gif)
Homework: One complete storyboard. The storyboard should be able to stand on it's own and make sense to a person reading it for the first time without explanation. The storyboard will:
Be neat and legible
Show the complete sequence of any non-repeating action
Show the complete sequence of the first of any repeating action
Use provided first and last frames
Completely describe the action next to each frame
Describe the sound next to each frame
Include all required symbols on the separate symbols sheet
Project Description:Using mostly clay and your imagination create a short animated story. Shoot the frames with a digital camera and output the final animation using iMovie.
