Final e4 Idents

Zoetropes

Simple (!) Drawn Animation

If you really want to improve your drawing and animation skills check out this amazing site. It has the whole of the Preston Blair how to draw book on it. It's an amazing resource.

Robot: Does this look 3D?

make animated gifs like this at MakeAGif

This one makes your head spin!

make animated gifs like this at MakeAGif

CWC Time Lapse Inspired by Koyaanisqatsi

Photographic Stop Motion

Duran Duran - Being Followed (GENERO.TV contest video) from ALEKSEY KHRUSLOV on Vimeo.

Cut Out Animation: Lotte Reniger and Phone Jacker!

Cut Out Animation: Terry Gilliam

A Master Class by Terry Gilliam on how he created his cut out animations.



What is cut out animation good for?
List two limitations of cut out animations:
What does Terry Suggest that you can do to make your character appear to walk?
If you would like your character to appear to bend, how could you do it?
Why do quick movements work well?
What should you do to the edges of your cut outs?
What key information does Terry put on his storyboards?

Human Skateboard

Muto Wall Drawing

Jan Svankmajer - Dimensions Of Dialogue Pt:2 (1982)

Jan Svankmajer - Dimensions Of Dialogue 1 - Exhaustive Discussion

Object Animation

Check out their other films when you get a chance. I think they are great.

Koyaanisqatsi

What camera angles are frequently used in this video?
Why do you think this type of camera angle was chosen?
What do you think the meaning is to this film?
If you were to recreate at Koyaanisqatsi esque film at CWC, give five locations you would use and why?

Channel Idents: What are they?

• What do they have in common? (Write down as many things as you can)
• What do you think the purpose of channel idents are? (Write down any ideas)

E4 Channel Ident Brief

1. Expressions of interest are requested to produce a 30 – 60 second stop motion animation, channel ident for E4. The idents are to be broadcast between weekday and evening programmes. The idents need to reflect the style, branding and attitude of E4. In addition to the longer 30 – 60 second idents a shorter (5 second) E Sting needs to be produced. The content for both pieces of work need to appear cohesive but also use original material.
   
   
   
   
   
   Who is your client?
   
   How many animations do you need to produce?
   
   How long does each animation need to be?
   
   What does 'cohesive' mean in this context?

List 10 shows that are popular on E4.

Welcome New Media Students

Today we are going to explore animation.

First of all I would like you to list as many different animations either film or TV programmes that you can think of.

Secondly I would like you to list all of the different places that you see animation. The more the merrier. Don't worry about being wrong just jot them down.

We will discuss your thoughts and then you can write it onto a blog post.

Tom and Jerry

Object Animation

Pixilation Animation

Deadline Post It notes

Guinness Advert

Evaluation

1. Create a questionnaire and get at least ten people who have viewed your animations to answer it. Or hold a focus group to get audience responses to your animation.
Consider: content, style, characters, set, narrative, editing, SFX, sound etc
2. Complete a ‘Self Evaluation: Review of Work,’ sheet (below).
3. Review your audience responses and your ‘Self Evaluation: Review of Work,’ and write a 500 word report which critically evaluates both the product, production process and audience responses.

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2. Self Evaluation: Review of Work Sheet

1. Name:

Production Company:

Complete the following questions as fully as possible. Where the question requires you to give a numerical score, 1 is the lowest value and 5 is the highest.

1. How well do you think you have managed your time?

1 2 3 4 5

2. Give examples of where you managed you time effectively or where you could have improved your time management.

3. How would you rate your other crew members?

1 2 3 4 5

4. Why did you give the above score? Give examples to support this score in the box below.

5. How well did you fulfil your role on this project?

1 2 3 4 5

6. How did you fulfil your role? Give examples to justify your score.

7. How well do you think your animation answered the creative brief?

1 2 3 4 5

8. What aspects of the brief did you manage to fulfil? Give examples.

9. What areas of the project didn’t work well? In future what you differently?

10. What areas of the project are you most proud of?

Proposal

Channel Ident and E4 Sting Proposal for E4

Company Logo

Proposal

Production Company: Think of a memorable name for your production team.

Working title:

Suggestive of content

By line

A subtitle that explains in one sentence the style of the ident, the technical form it will use, the material it will contain, and the time period it will cover.

Synopsis

Write a full description of the animation, from opening shot to close.

What characters are you intending to use?

What are their lines of appeal?

How will it maintain audience attention, how will it inform educate and entertain?

How will it appeal to the E4 demographic?

Personnel

Who is going to be in your production team, what are their strengths?

How are you going to ensure that the production stays on schedule?

Resources

What technical resources will you be using?

What creative materials will you be using in your animation?

Schedule

Give some idea about a realistic schedule. When will pre production be completed?

When will production and post production take place?

Last Day!

As a matter of urgency I need everyone to have finished your learning outcomes 1 and 2 and uploaded it to your blog. We are having an examiner in to check your work. Here is a link to the checklist on LO1; https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1b0UY98IcT_rKEDifbQggSQ0DppDQd3M6lcAuffRVuX8&pli=1 make sure you include dates of key animation techniques. For LO2 You need to write a proposal for your idea. The proposal template is on http://www.newmediateacher.blogspot.com/. Please upload this to your blog - you can simply cut and paste from a word document. You all need to produce a mind map of ideas for your ident. In addition you also need to produce two of the following: A storyboard which explains what is going to happen in your animation. Character sketches from all angles. A mood board to which visually demonstrates the look you are trying to create. LO3 you need to upload your video to your blog. LO4: Give others feedback and write your evaluation (see checklist above and blog for more information).Thanks very much and I look forward to marking it soon! We will be starting a new Unit Next Week, so make a special effort to be there please!

Checklist! To do today!

Pitch Perfect

•An elevator pitch is an overview of an idea for a product, service, or project.

•The name reflects the fact that an elevator pitch should be possible to deliver in the time span of an elevator ride, meaning in a maximum of 30 seconds and in 130 words or fewer.

•It must include the following:

1.What problem is it you are trying to solve? (In this case it’s in the brief).

2.How are you going to solve it? What’s your idea?

3.What are the benefits of your idea over all the other ideas?

4.Make sure it’s clear and there are no questions?

1.In your pairs write down your ideas.

2.Write a short pitch of 130 words.

3.Practice it. Does it cover the 4 essential steps of an elevator pitch. Does it have the problem, your solution, the benefits and does it leave the person not having any questions?

4.Make improvements.

5.Pitch it!

TASK: Idea Development

• Produce a mind map which shows lots of ideas of how you can answer the creative brief you have been given. Upload an image of the mind map to your blog. Write, 'E4 ident,' in the middle of the sheet of plain paper and let your ideas flow!
• Write up your best idea into a blog post and explain it fully. Give as much detail as possible.

Fine Tuning Ideas

Today is all about generating and fine tuning your ideas, for your stop-motion animation, E4 channel idents. To make sure you are producing the best idea, work through the following:

1. Produce mind maps of at least 3 ideas which might answer the brief you have been given.
   Select your best idea.
2. If relevent produce a series of character sketches, which show how the main characters look from each side.
3. If relevent produce a mood board which illustrates, the 'feel' or 'mood' of the ident that you are going to produce.
4. Write a proposal (see post below called, 'Writing a proposal for your chanel ident')

Produce a storyboard for the animation (the storyboard must also show evidence that you have considered movement, frames per second, soundtrack, sound effect and script if appropriate).
If relevent produce drawings of the set that you intend to make.
All pre production work, needs to be evidensed on your blog, so scan, photograph, post or upload, your pre production work.

*If you are unsure about what pre production material you need to produce, then please discuss your idea with me and I can suggest the most relevent work for your project. Each idea will be different but you do need to produce a substantial amount of material.

First Diploma: Giving Prezi Presentations

Hello, today you will be giving your presentations on Walt Disney to the rest of the group. If you are not giving your presentation you will be writing notes ready to comment on the presenters blog. Feedback is very important, it helps you improve on your weaker areas and build upon your strengths.

Before your presentation, you need to have done the following:

1. Make sure you have added pathways to your presentation.
2. Embed your prezi presentation to your blog.
3. Make sure you have 'allowed comments' on your blog settings tab.

Todays Task

Produce a creative 30 - 60 second animation which explores Tilt Shift functions and or Chroma Key functions on I-stop motion.

Experiment 1: Chroma Keying Background in I Stop Motion

We have some fantastic new software to create our stop motion animations on. It has some great new features. I would like you to experiment with the new software try the chroma keying feature as demonstrated above.

Tilt Shift Function on New Stop Motion Software

Still Moving from mustardcuffins on Vimeo.

This video makes brilliant use of the tilt shift effect. The new software that we have for stop motion can do a similar effect. If you feel inspired you could achieve something similar. Why not give it a try!

Tilt Shift is a popular photographic illusion that manipulates the depth of field on long-shots in a manner to fool the brain into thinking it is looking at miniature-scale models.



So you have viewed the video's, now answer these questions:

1. What kind of effect does the 'tilt shift effect' create?
2. What type of camera angles best suite the 'Tilt Shift effect'?
3. If you were to use the 'tilt shift' effect around college, list 3 filming locations which you think would be effective.

HERE'S HOW TO DO IT

Simple Stop Motion

I thought there was quite interesting use of stop motion animation in a recent edition of Channel 4's 'Will My Crash Diet Kill Me.' You might like to check it out. Unfortunately you will have to watch a few ad's first.

First Diploma: Walt Disney Presentations Continued

Last week you all made great progress creating your presentations using the new Prezi software (if you weren't in last week, sign up and get an account here).

To improve the presentations that you created last week, make sure your presentation contains the following:

1. At least 5 points about Walt Disney's 'background'.
2. At least 5 points about his 'successes.'
3. At least 2 points about his 'failures'.
4. At least 5 points about how he will be remembered.

(If you don't have all of the following information on your Prezi, then please do some additional research, either using the internet or the library.)

In additional to the factual elements of your Walt Disney presentations I would also like you to include the following:

1. At least 1 relevant picture.
2. At least one video (either as a link or embedded on the presentation - If you are not sure Jordan Williams can show you how, as he did it last week!).

Second Years: Writing a Proposal for your Channel Ident

Channel Ident and E4 Sting Proposal

Company Logo

Proposal

Production Company: Think of a memorable name for your production team.

Working title:
Suggestive of content

By line
A subtitle that explains in one sentence the style of the ident, the technical form it will use, the material it will contain, and the time period it will cover.

Synopsis
Write a full description of the animation, from opening shot to close.
What characters are you intending to use?
What are their lines of appeal?
How will it maintain audience attention, how will it inform educate and entertain?
How will it appeal to the E4 demographic?

Personnel
Who are you and what are your strengths?
How are you going to ensure that the production stays on schedule?

Resources
What technical resources will you be using?
What creative materials will you be using in your animation?

Schedule
Give some idea about a realistic schedule. When will pre production be completed?
When will production and post production take place?

Once you have written your proposal upload it to your blog.

Awesome Presentation Software!

Get an account here! http://prezi.com/

Watch the video and create your own presentation. It will take you a while to understand it but then your presentation will fly and amaze others!

Once you have completed your presentation you can then embed it on your blog and pat yourself on the back! Well done.

Welcome First Diploma! Research Walt Disney...

Untitled from suevenables on Vimeo.

Welcome Second Years: To Do Today

Channel Idents: An Overview

Here is a really good website about Channel Idents. Check it out, it might give you ideas and inspiration for coming up with your own channel ident ideas.

First Diploma Checklist

First Diploma ANimation round up from suevenables on Vimeo.

Click here for a checklist. Please make sure all your work is on your blog so that I can mark it.

Second Years Today's Task!

Click here for a checklist

Pixilation Animation: Brilliant!

Object Animation

Follow this link to a presentation about object animation.

My favourite is http://www.eatpes.com/ - enjoy!

Claymation: Evaluation

Upload your claymation animation into a new blog post and write an Evaluation of Claymation Animation. Firstly explain the process of claymation animation?

What are the strengths of using Claymation animation? What did it enable you to create?

What are the limitations of claymation? (Draw upon your own experiences), was their anything that plasticine couldn’t do?

Critically evaluate (strengths and weaknesses) of claymation animation with other animation techniques you have experienced (eg Object Animation, Cut Out animation, pixilation,etc)

Upload your claymation animation into a new blog post and write an Evaluation of Claymation Animation. Firstly explain the process of claymation animation?

What are the strengths of using Claymation animation? What did it enable you to create?

What are the limitations of claymation? (Draw upon your own experiences), was their anything that plasticine couldn’t do?

Critically evaluate (strengths and weaknesses) of claymation animation with other animation techniques you have experienced (eg Object Animation, Cut Out animation, pixilation,etc)

Gumbasia

Here is the Gumbasia Presentation.

Here is the Gumbasia Techniques support material.

Flick Books

Turning your Flickbooks into a Video Loop

Using a video camera, tripod and Stop Motion pro capture each hand drawn image.
Start a new project in Final Cut Pro; make sure the settings are ‘DV Pal and Standard 48 Hz.’
You are now going to make a video loop of your clip. Select the original video clip, copy it, and paste it at the end of the original clip. So you have two copies of the same clip.
Select the pasted section and set it to play backwards. You do this by pressing ‘ctrl,’ and clicking on the clip. Then click on ‘speed duration,’ and click the ‘reverse clip,’ box.
Now you have a loop of one forward and one backward repetition.
To make a longer loop, copy both clips and paste them at the end of the first loop. Repeat this until the loop is as long as you want.

Pixilation Animation

I think this Pixilation video is pretty exciting:

Walt Disney: Secret Lives

Good old Walt Disney, creator of character like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry. Nice bloke wasn't he? Or was he?

Anwer these questions

1. When was Walt born?
2. What is his full name?

Part 2

 Answer these questions:

Part 3



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Part 4

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Part 5



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Part 6



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