IDS 252: Topics for the Week of October 8, 2007

• Mon: Finish looking at work from Lab 5: Rendering, Lights, and Shading.

• Wed: Look at work from Lab 6: Conveying Emotion and Mood through Gesture
  Note, these images will be given to the musicians so it is important that you complete the work and place it on enfuzion in the folder IDS252Fa07\Lab6\FinalEmotions no later than the beginning of class on Wed. .

• Introduce Lab 7: Conveying Emotion Using Gesture and Sound.

  • A gesture is defined as "a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.: the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture." (dictionary.com)
  • Drawing examples
  • Caravaggio
  • In animation
  • Books by Ed Hooks, e.g. Acting for Animators

• More on Materials, Shading, and Rendering

  • Reflections and transparency
  • Anti-aliasing, Hypergraph

• Begin discussion of Animation Production

  • Three states:
    1. Pre-production (Thinking Stage): writing, design, storyboards, animatics
    2. Production: (Doing Stage): modeling, animation, rendering, etc
    3. Post-Production (Assembling Stage): editing, final sound, title/credits
  • Look again at movie examples: Shrek, Ice age.
  • Example Roles
  • Flowhart

• Story Exercise: Part 1 and Part 2

• Storyboarding

  • Yogi Bear
  • Storyboard on Wikipedia
  • Storyboards - OSU, Women&Tech
  • Acting with a Pencil - describes how to use arrows to specify camera movement :
  • Simple and Large storyboard template. Note, the final storyboards should be done one per 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
  • Types of shots
  • Do exercise with Little Red Riding Hood.