Due: Saturday, May 7 @ 2:00 pm

Turn in video via the Character Dialogue folder.

• Thursday, April 14: WIP 1 - script + storyboard

• Tuesday, April 19: WIP 2: Audio Recording: add your edited audio to the Google Drive folder

For this assignment (which is a WIP), you may work in pairs, groups of three, or solo. You'll use the motion capture capabilities of Adobe Character Animator to create a 1-3 minute video of your character speaking. You may record the audio yourself, or use an appropriated recording. You must do at least one closeup or other shot change per character.

If you're working solo and you still want to make a conversation, you can either use two versions of your character, or use one of the puppets bundled with Animator.

Script + Storyboard:

Identify the lines that will be spoken by each character, and write a script that includes character direction. Draw up a storyboard that demonstrates shot variation.

Puppet Preparation

Your puppet needs to be set up in Photoshop using names and a structure that Animator can recognize, and to coordinate with the behaviors you want it to be able to perform. Behaviors can control specific features of a character's body. To enable a specific control, name the feature's layers in Photoshop or Illustrator using the following group/layer structure/naming, or use the tags with the names listed below (you don't need all of these!). Your Photoshop file should have groups (folders) organized according to the templates provided: see Chad.psd for how to set up the face and head, and Chloe.psd for how to set up the body.

Important points to remember:

• You must add a + (plus sign) in front of any folder you want to be able to move on its own, without influencing any other parts.

• To make your eyes able to blink, you need two separate folders inside the Head folder: + right eye & + left eye. Don't put these into a single "Eyes" folder. The pupils also need to have a + sign in front of them so they are able to move independently.

• All of the folders and layers need to be inside a main puppet folder - name this whatever you want, but it needs to hold everything else. This is necessary for rigging, and will allow you to affect the puppet as a whole.

Create a mouth set for lip sync: Develop individual visemes, or mouth shapes, each on its own layer, for the following sounds/ emotional states. This folder should exist in a separate .psd document, and can be dragged into any character file: