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!

For Monday:

Produce a 12-Panel Storyboard, where the story within can be completed within ONE MINUTE.
Your subject is DEALER'S CHOICE in subject and Genre.
You must KNOW your story's GENRE!

• Bring in one story (LIVE ACTION or ANIMATION) of the SAME genre with TYPED notes on the following:
• Shot Rhythm
• Color Palettes
• Character and Environment Design. (including costume and prop design)

Your Storyboard will also have the following supplemental content:

• Character Design Model Sheets
• 5 Views: Front, 3/4 Front, Side, 3/Q Back, Back
• Environment Design Model Sheets!
• One large black and white drawing on each page.
• Every environment design must include one BLOCKING reference.
• Blocking references work like blueprints, showing where characters, environments, and cameras are located. 

As part of your research, I have included on the server a PDF copy of the MOUSEWORKS MODEL PACK, a collection of designs from Disney cartoons of old!

Maximum character count is 3 characters, Maximum environment count is 2 environments.

Links from class for reference:
Mouseworks Model Pack:
Jackie Chan: How to do Action Comedy
Edgar Wright: How to do Visual Comedy

Due After Spring Break!

1) Finish your Animation! Bring a new video of your work with improvements to me for Monday!

• Add Inbetweens to your drawings! Inbetweens will
• Add fluidity and flow to your movements!
• Add momentum to your character's actions!
• Add detailed context for subtle actions!

2) Bring Framed Ink and Animator's Survival Kit to class! (I will be checking for copies of each book for a grade!)

3) Read Chapters 1 and 2 of Framed Ink!

4) Bring your art supplies to class, ready to turn in your animation, and work on something new!

Have a great Spring Break! =D