IDS 252: Topics for the Week of September 29, 2008

• Reminder! We will meet with musicians: Thursday Oct 2 at 6:45pm. Lab that afternoon will be optional.

• Lab:

  • On Tuesday, review student work for Lab 4: Music and Animation.
  • Discuss and begin Lab 5: Creating an Animation Loop .
    

• Maya Topics

  • Using Deformers, e.g. squash & stretch
  • Path animation

• General Discussion

  • More examples of lighting: Monet's Haystacks
  • Gesture and Animation
    • Garfield
    • 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

  • 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 at movie examples: Shrek, Ice age.
    • Example Roles
    • Flowhart

  • Storyboarding

    • Look at the excerpt from "Making Comics" by Scott McCloud which can be found on enfuzion at \IDS252Fa08\Readings\McCloud.pdf
    • 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.