ANIMATION PROJECTS
Objectives:
204.01 Understand advanced pre-production methods for digital animation
204.02 Understand advanced production methods for digital animation.
204.03 Understand advanced post-production methods for digital animation.
Essential Question:
How do we apply advanced pre-production, production, and post-production methods to plan and create digital animation?
204.01 Understand advanced pre-production methods for digital animation
204.02 Understand advanced production methods for digital animation.
204.03 Understand advanced post-production methods for digital animation.
Essential Question:
How do we apply advanced pre-production, production, and post-production methods to plan and create digital animation?
Review: Flying Plane AnimationYou will need to downloand the plane and the helicopter to right to animate in a simple motion path in Adobe Animate. This will give you a warm up for animation. You will need to create a sky background with clouds that move using a classic tween with different levels of alpha. You will also need to add additional elements to give your animation a well rounded look. Each animation will need to done at 24 FPS and you will need to use a minimum of 60 Frames.
Look at the example to give you a general idea of what to do. HOWEVER, your animation should be much more complicated with additional animations and effects to give your animation depth and interest. YOURS SHOULD NOT LOOK LIKE MINE, at all! As you work, save your project and name it lastname + firstname + period# + flyingplane. When you are finished, export your animation to a .mov. You will turn this in by showing your animation to Scales. Remember to add a copy to your portfolio folder! |
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Logo Banner (Part 3)
Now that you have a fully completed logo, you will need to take this logo and create 2 animated banners that advertises your company's logo. You banner must meet the following requirements:
As you work, save your project and name it lastname + firstname + period# + logobanner. When you are finished, export each animation as a .mov and put your animation into a folder. Name the folder (ex: scalesemily1stlogobanner). You will turn in the entire folder to Scales. Remember to add a copy to your portfolio folder! |
Rubric:
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Stop Motion Movie Project
You and your partner will be creating a stop motion movie to tell a story! Before you can start you have to draw out your Storyboards (and be approved by Scales first). Then you will need to gather your props and supplies and start taking your pictures. You want to make sure that you keep your camera in the same general place for each picture. For this project we will be using iMovie to edit your stop gap movie.
Using iMovie:, before you start:
Save and Share your file as a .MOV OR a .MP4 file with both you and your partners names on the file name: lastname+lastname+period#+stopgap and AirDrop to Scales |
Storyboards:
Checklist:
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EXTRAS:
Dancing Cans in Adobe After Effects
You have been hired as video animator by ILM. They want you to create an animated video advertisement for a beverage company. You are to follow the directions given by the project manager for the target audience to complete the project. Once complete then you should review the checklist for grading criteria before turning in your work. Complete and submit the online rubric for this project once it has been completed.
Click on the link and follow the tutorial to create the Dancing Can After Effects project. You can alter the project any way you like, but must have a can that dances, an animated background, and animated text. The length of the animation should be 30 seconds long, but can be longer to fit your song if you like. You choose the song (must be school appropriate) and you choose the can (must be school appropriate). You will have to edit your song in Audition and make as a MP3 to import into AE. Make your audio fade up/down in Audition before you export as an MP3. You must include a catch phrase or original slogan as well that must be animated. You can use the tutorial to animate the text or use any of the pre-made text effects in AE. Make a new project in AE, make a new composition with the NTSC DV setting (720x480) and change the duration to the length of your song. Then follow the steps in the tutorials. Save the file as lastname+firstname+period#+dancingcan and turn into Scales. |
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Flash Interactive Tutorial
Now you will be looking into some of the other functions in Flash to create an interactive flash file. This will include making use of Action Script and the library to create a functional button. Try clicking the doorbell in the flash file below for a demonstration. All of the ActionScript code you need to complete this project is included in the tutorial.
In addition to the house and stage, you will need to create at least one symbol that is animated which will run throughout the animation. This will have to be done through the object editor. To do this, click the "new symbol" icon in the library and set the type to movie clip. The rain in the flash below is an example of a symbol that has been animated through the object editor. The sounds used are called "Impact bell hit by hammer" and "Foley footsteps cowboy boots" in the sounds common library in Flash. |
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