Create a 5-second animation through random sequential collaboration.
- Students will create work for every stage in the animation production pipeline.
- Basic knowledge of the animation tool being used.
You'll need the following file(s) to complete this exercise.
- Source Materials / Files go Here
- Pre-Production
- Solicit a word from the class - this is now your theme.
- Concept
- Hand out a piece of paper to each student.
- Fold it, Fold it, Fold it, creating 8 sections
- Have students sketch a new concept every 30sec-1min
- Switch locations
- Storyboard
- Students have 5-10min to story board one of the concepts.
- Production
- Modeling
- Texturing
- Staging
- Animation
- Lighting
- Rendering
- Post-Production
- Editing
- Compositing
- Publishing
- Take one of the animations completed in class, and collaborating with one other animator use some of those raw materials to create a more polished 3-5 second animation.
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- Heller, Steven, Michael Dooley, and Karen Zimmermann. Project 2: Exquisite Corpse. Teaching Motion Design: Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Undergraduate and Graduate Programs. New York: Allworth, 2008. N. pag. Print.
- You'll need lots of time to meaningfully complete this project. Perhaps skip it, or do a limited version of it focusing on just animation using pre-built models if you don't have much time.