IDS 252: Topics for February 16/18, Spring 2016

• Lab:

  • Review work for Lab 4: Creating an Animation Loop . See Evaluation Sheet (pdf).
  • Discuss and begin Lab 5: Creating an Animation Loop with Sound See Evaluation Sheet (pdf).

• Understanding the difference between using pose-to-pose vs straight-ahead animation. See book excerpt 3 Ways To Animate

• Maya Tools & Techniques:

  • Instructions for creating the Quicktime animation file.
  • Importing sound into Maya
  • Creating an animation with sound in Adobe Premiere.
  • Path animation
  • More on working with rigged characters.
  • Global illumination (final gather), shadows, etc

• More on Using the Camera

  • Creating a shotCam.
  • Using the Camera to Tell the Story
  • Continuity (see chp 8 book excerpt in Storyboarding)

• See demos at Animator's Survival Lit Also look at videos:

  • Volume 2, (first 10 minutes) timing & spacing using bouncing ball
  • Volume 3: (all) more on timing and spacing, key frames, inbetweens, Working methods: straight ahead, pose-to-pose, hybrid

• Sound:

  • Sound designer Randy Thom talks about 'Apocalypse Now'
  • What is Sound Design, Randy Thom, (other Thom articles on sound can also be found here.) As you read the Thom article, please jot down your response to the following:
    1. What is meant by a "pov" sequence and how can sound be used to enhance such sequences?
    2. Give an example of how sound can turn a place into a character (e.g. steel mill).
    3. Discuss other ways sound can be used to help tell a story.
    4. Are there things you learned about applying sound to film that you found surprising or intriguing?
    5. When you begin to develop the story and script for your animation, what are two pieces of "sound" advice that you believe are most important to consider?
  • Yale Film Analysis - Sound
  • Terminology, e.g. timbre, reverb, see glossary.