22 September 2009
PROJECT 1: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION DUE
We will begin class with a critique of your work. Have your completed work uploaded to Vimeo and be prepared to give me the URL of your animation at the beginning of class.
We will screen your work. Grading will be based on your uploaded vimeo files, so please do ensure that your account name has some relationship to your actual name. :)
Stop motion
Before you load the images into photoshop, make a blank video layer and then change the document settings to the appropriate length and frames per second...THEN import your images as a video layer from a file.
What happens if you change it after the fact, it drops the frames in-between.
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3B: Rotoscoping
EXAMPLES:
- Fleischer Brothers: Minnie the Moocher, Superman
- Ralph Bakshi: Fritz Lang: Lord of the Rings, American Pop
- Richard Linklater: Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly
- It's Jerry Time
- Aha (the Literal Version)
Demo:
After Effects to Photoshop and back again.
Project:
Create a minimum of a 30 second rotoscoped work. Your source material may come from one source. Edit your source material to 30 seconds BEFORE you begin to rotoscope.
Your rotoscope should be beyond an animated version of the source material. Change the meaning, recontextualize it, take advantage of the fact that it is an animation and laws of physics, gravity and reality no longer have any bearing on the work.
Additionally, still think about that narrative arc.