Lab 5: Telling a Story
IDS 352: 3D Advance Animation, Fall 2014

Goals

This is a capstone assignment. The goal are to:

• Create a single animation that tells a brief story or sets a scenerio.
• Combine skills and concepts learned over the semester.
• Re-use, combine and add to animations already created.
• Work with musicians.

Story Requirements

• The animation should be your main focus. Everything else is secondary.
• The animation should be around 10-15 seconds long. Longer is ok but only if the animation is slow paced.
• Include one primary character. Maybe a minor secondary character but only if this character's animation is minimal.
• Keep the environment minimal. A ground plane and one or 2 simple props. Don't spend much time on these!
• Use only a few lights. Use solid materials.
• The camera action should be simple, e.g. a fixed camera perhaps with a few cuts.

References

• Animating Advanced Body Mechanics: This turorial shows you how to plan with references to create your pose sketches. It also discusses blocking.
• Animation Blocking Techniques

Process

Meet with muscicians at ~11:30am next Thursday (Nov 6).

See chart for schedule.

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