HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY

A) Come up with 2 IDEAS for a 6-10 second character animation.

• Your animation should follow this prompt:
• "CHARACTER X” (action word) ________________”
• Examples:
• "Joe sits down in a chair”
• “Jessica is hungry.”
• “Chance eats a hamburger”
• When you come up with this action, your character should do 2 IMPORTANT THINGS:
• 1) Have an emotion or feeling about what they are doing. (Why are they doing this?)
• 2) Have a solid REACTION and RELEASE to what they are doing. (How do they feel after doing it?)

We are asking this question: “What’s the point!?”

You want to make note of the GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES of your performance:

Here is how to add the “Given Circumstances" to your scene:

Step 1) Put yourself in your character’s shoes. Be your character.

Step 2) As yourself these questions:

• Who am I?
• Where am I?
• What do I want?
• What do I do when I get what I want?
• What do I do when I don’t get what I want?

Step 3) Answer these 5 questions!

B) Do research on CHARACTERS and ENVIRONMENTS (both live action and animated)

• find examples that reference the kind of story you are trying to tell!
• Look at the elements we talked about today!
• >>> Big, Medium, and Small Shapes

>>>SHAPE SYMBOLISM

>>>Color Symbolism

>>>Posturing and Stance (Staging)

>>> POSING IS KEY!

C) Start making character designs and environment designs for this six second animation! 

• for the sake of next class, I want QUANTITY. You are allowed to bring in sketches!  But your sketches must be CLEAR and easy to understand.
• At least 10 environment sketches and 10 character designs (at least 2 sketches per character)
• WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU: IS at least 5 environments and character designs per idea!

D)Bring your research and designs in MONDAY!

E) OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT:

• go to a public place and do at least 10 drawings of people and environments around you!