IDS 252: Topics for the Week of February 18, 2013

• Lab:

  • On Wed, we will meet with MUSC 121 at 12:50 in Ford 122 (Theater) to review work from both Lab 4: Creating an Animation Loop and Lab 5: Creating an Animation Loop with Sound, See see Lab 5 evaluation sheet.
  • Discuss and begin Lab 6: Collaboration, Character, and Sound See evaluation sheet.

• Student Showcase

• Using the Render Farm.

• Read:

  • 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
  • Chapter 5: Composition

• References and Proxies in Maya

• Shots:

  • What is a Shot?
  • Shot transitions
  • Yale Film Analysis, See sections on Cinematography->Movement as well as Editing.

• 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 Also see Various Ways to Use Gesture (scroll down page to see this).
  • Polly's World.

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