Tuesday, September 27, 2011

WEEK 4: Animation Direction 1

We'll have a look at your WIP storyboards and talk about planning branching game cycles before the due date later in the week.

The next step of the process is planning the animation. We'll discuss many of the tools used to streamline this part of the pipeline: exposure sheets, bar sheets, timing charts, and animation posing. It's important to plan the animation direction so the style is consistent throughout the production. Drawing the character in key poses inspires the animation process. Gathering reference material including shooting video reference can be invaluable. Before animation begins, it should be planned as rough thumbnails as in the Ratatouille sketches in the photo.

Your next assignment is to thumbnail all of the animation for your virtual video game.


ADIR1136 Assignment 2: Animation Thumbnails
% of final grade: 20%
Assigned: Thursday, Sept 29th
Due: Sunday, October 9th <--NEW!!!
Please submit all work via FTP
SAVE your work uncompressed (PSDs recommended)
SEND me only JPGs
Please keep file sizes under 2MB
Filenames:
tdonovan_thumb_001.jpg


Description:

Plan the animation for a sequence in your virtual game. It can be built around the travelling sequences such as the walk, run, and jump cycles to be animated in the second half of the course. It could also focus on another significant part of the game. Drawings need not be clean but they should be clear, dynamic, and detailed.

Rubric:
Exemplary - In-depth planning of all the movement and surrounding actions for animation sequence showing the character's specific personality and style of movement.
Excellent - Detailed movement study of animation sequence showing all major actions with some personality.
Acceptable - Simple study of most of the planned actions for the animated sequence.
Not Acceptable - Sparsely detailed study of a few of the key poses of the animated sequence.

2 comments:

  1. Tara why would you make this due the same time as nuit blanche and our other major project? :(
    Do you hate us??

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  2. Oh dear! You're right! That was actually a typo -- the due date for Assignment 2 is actually OCTOBER 9TH! Thanks for pointing that out. Have fun at Nuit Blanche!

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