IDS 252: Topics for the Week of February 20, 2012

• Lab:

  • Monday during class: Review work for Lab 5: Lighting and Shading, e.g. look at evaluation sheet.
  • Discuss and begin Lab 6: Collaboration, Character, and Sound

• Using the Render farm.

• Read:

  • WT -Chapter 8: Continuity
  • WT -Chapter 5: Composition

• Gesture and Animation

  • 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.
  • Garfield
  • Drawing examples
  • Caravaggio
  • In animation
  • Animator's Survival Kit
  • Books by Ed Hooks, e.g. Acting for Animators
  • Polly's World.

• Text - Chapter 8: Continuity

  • Want to create seamless sequences. Cuts and transitions should make sense to the audience.
  • Do not want to cross Line of Action.
  • Using the Camera to Tell the Story

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