Final Project!

For your Final Project, each student will produce a polished 10 second character action sequence! Within this sequence you are to use the following:

• No more than 2 characters.
• Create an environment for your scene!
• Create a polished model sheet!
• Create a polished environment design as well!
• Produce a rough storyboard of your scene in storyboard pro first! Storyboarding your scene first will make the timing of your shots much faster!
• Your project should take advantage of SIX(6) of the twelve principles of animation! Link to full list is here: http://the12principles.tumblr.com/

Your project should also demonstrate other skills we have learned throughout the semester, including proper cinematography, staging, performance, expression, and technical animation skills!

Each student will also turn in a copy of each of your projects from earlier this semester! We will produce a small portfolio utilizing the best of your assignments! (more on this Wednesday) This is your chance to make higher marks on your assignments, and have a higher overall grade than your midterm assignments.

Remember: You initially have 2 weeks to complete this assignment, so create an assignment you can complete within this time! Be aware that any projects requiring two characters will require twice the amount of effort to complete.

IN THE FINALS FOLDER ON THE SERVER: TURN IN THE FOLLOWING:

1. The ball bounce project.
2. The shape emotion project.
3. The research assignment.
4. Your Walk Cycle Project.
5. Scans of Your Observational Drawing Assignments! You should have the following:
6. 30 Drawings of people. (your initial 20, and 10 drawings done in the opposite context. If you did realism, work abstract, and vice versa.)
7. 5-10 environment drawings!
8. 5 quality animal sketches are extra credit!
9. Your Character Performance Project with cleaned up key drawings and breakdown drawings!
10. Your Storyboarding Project, including

• Environment and Character Designs, Refined, and Polished.
• A .pdf of your storyboards, exported into 3-panel horizontal layout
• The animatic of your storyboard project attached as a video.
• Your TWO storyboarding projects: where we storyboarded a 22 minute cartoon in class, and you storyboarded a 10-minute cartoon at home.

11. Your FINAL PROJECT: INCLUDING the FOLLOWING:

• Storyboards

• Character Design
• Environment Design
• Animatic
• Final Animation Video
• A link to your blogger portfolio: The following videos must be uploaded to your blogger at minimum:

1. BALL BOUNCE PROJECT

2. SHAPE EMOTION PROJECT.

3. RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

4. WALK CYCLE PROJECT.

5. YOUR CHARACTER PERFORMANCE PROJECT

6. THE ANIMATIC FROM YOUR STORYBOARD PROJECT.

7. YOUR FINAL ANIMATION PROJECT.

I will grade based on the following:

A. Craftsmanship: Line-art quality.  Are your lines clean? Is your character the focal point of your animation, or are the rough lines the focal point?

B. Modeling: How consistent is your character between every frame of your animation?  Do limbs get too thin and then too thick?

C. Performance: Are we captivated by the actions on screen?  Is your animation about the character? Are the performances believable and relatable if we look at your animation as an actor and as the audience?

D. Clarity of storytelling:  What is the story of each animation?  Is the story coming across?

E. Technique:  Are you demonstrating the principles we've learned in class?
F. PORTFOLIO, and SERVER FINAL PROJECT ORGANIZATION:  ARE ALL OF YOUR PROJECTS ACCOUNTED FOR? NOTE: TURNING IN ALL PROJECTS IS REQUIRED FOR PASSING!