Preparation for your Final Project

Over the semester we have worked on a number of projects dealing with acting, weight, flexibility, character interaction, drawing, craftsmanship, acting, and the like. Our next goal is to put all of the skills we have been working on together into making some polished animated of which we can all be proud!

For this reason, we have been working on your storyboarding and animatic skills. Now we will do the following:

Final Project Part 1:

Ultimate goal: Produce a 10 - 20 second animation that encompasses everything you have learned this semester and tells a compelling story!

As a student, you have 2 choices:

• Take the animatic you have been working on so far and carry it to a finished production, or
• Use what you have learned about storyboarding to create a new final project.

With this project, we will finally talk color for animation, as well as strategies for tying your skills together.  Your animation needs to demonstrate the following:

• Believable Weight
• Flexibility in Character Action
• Spatial Recognition in Camera Choice
• Convincing Perspective
• Clear anatomy and definition
• Design approaches and craftsmanship that demonstrates the progress you have made in your animation.
• A character ( or characters) that grab the audience’s attention.

You must also submit cleaned-up versions of the following projects (these projects must also demonstrate :

• Your walk cycle
• Your Character Action Project

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Your homework for Monday, Nov 14th:

Create a schedule for yourself that allows you to deliver a finished final project to the class on Monday, December 5th!

This gives you almost an entire month to take the work you have to a completed state.  Think about what you want to do for your final project, how long it would take, and come up with a reasonable schedule that takes into consideration the following:

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• Sketches
• Lineart for Key Drawings, BreakDown Drawings, and In-betweens
• Color
• Time to revise your old projects if you have not already.

The trick here is to create something that can be completed, not something that it perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal in art. Instead, we should strive to communicate clearly, and use our artwork to project our voice to the world!

Today we will talk a few techniques to help you produce your projects!