- anticipation: monster will be shown cocking his fist
- Squash and stretch: monster will bend his legs before jumping on a building
- Monster will have "Personality"
- Rubble will fall everywhere.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
favorite Animators
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Professional Graphic Artists: Alex Damon
Friday, March 26, 2010
After Effects Notes
- How to set a keyframe
- press the stopwatch icon next to the position property
- pressin the "end" takes the CTI (current time indicator) to the end of the keyframe
- pressing the home key moves it to the beginning.
- drag and drop, click settings dvd
- best quality 90 minutes, all
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
storyboard homework
http://issuu.com/mauriceworks/docs/art_396_storyboardtext
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Cool Animation I Saw
Monday, March 8, 2010
Howtocheatinflash
- 3d Object: a certain color palette in flash makes any object look 3d, the paint bucket can also be used to alter the 3d shape
- Easing: used to make an animation look more "smooth" (realistic)
- create circular shape with gradient
- convert object to shape
- insert first keyframe (position shape at starting position)
- insert the next keyframe (place shape where it will go next)
- Insert Motion tween with easing set
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Review For Midterm
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Notes Flash & After Effects
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Terms & Concepts 2-4-10
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Notes Vector vs Raster
- comprised of mathematical images
- shapes (lines segments, paths,...)
- Resolution independant
- Text, shapes, logos, artwork
- Illustrator Flash
- Independant Resolution
- used by photoshop, and corel
- to insert keyframe press f6 "the little black dots"
- keyframe indicates an object is on stage/ movement/ start-end of action
- Inserting a keyframe between a start and an end of an object is "inbetweening"
- Interpolation: changes in size, color, etc. (changes in properties over time)
- Inbetween drawing
- onion skin: allows you to see all the actions taking place
- timeline
- Frame: "holders of time", indicate time, f5, gray area (more frames slow,less frames quick)
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Critiques
Treatment 2-3-10
Maurice Washington
Art 396
2-3-10
Treatment
"Back to the way it was"
Haiti From the Beginning
The animation opens up with an image of what Haiti looks like after the earthquake. At this moment peaceful music is playing. Following this, dramatic music starts playing in the background, and a clock is shown with the hands going in reverse clockwise order. Important scenes in the history of Haiti are shown starting from the way Haiti looks after the hurricane and rewinding back to when Haiti was found by Christopher Columbus. It will be sort of an animated timeline which uses a combination of stop-motion graphics and animation, representing historical moments in Haiti's history from the present back to revolution, to slavery and back to Christopher Columbus discovering it.
Throughout the different instances in the timeline, the faces of the people inhabiting the island are shown to help convey the feeling of the time in History. The music becomes louder and more dramatic as controversial moments are shown. A clock will appear on the screen again, with the hands going in clockwise order this time, and all of the footage of Haiti's history quickly fast forwards back to the scene before the earthquake where the people are happy. Text will appear on the screen saying "everyone should have a chance of being happy", "help Haiti reach theirs".
Proposals 2-3-10
Maurice Washington
Art 396
2-3-10
Proposals
"Equality"
A black screen shows the word "Equality". Afterwards, words that are synonyms are shown on the screen. The following word shown is fairness, with a picture shown of various people having everyday priviliges such as access to a water fulton and buying food from a grocery store. The word "Sameness" will come after and show a picture of a man giving a hand to a child that fell down, followed by a picture of them walking to show everyone should be treated the same with kindness. This message will be further emphasized with pictures of people laughing from all around the word. Finally the word "Equlality" will come across the screen again with the message "everyone deserves a change to be treated equally, fairly and with the same kindness and courteousness. "Help Haiti" will show up on the screen.
"Back to the way it was"
Haiti From the Begining
A collage of images show where the area of Haiti is located along with what the scenery looks like after the earthquake. Following this, dramatic music starts playing in the background, and important scenes in the history of Haiti are shown such as slavery. A short of animated timeline is shown using stop-motion graphics and animation, with history of Haiti showing starting with its current condition rewinding back to the way it started. Throughout the different instances in the timeline the faces of the Haitian people are shown to help convey the feeling of the time in History. The music becomes dramatic as contraversal moments are shown.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Notes Pre-poduction (2-2-10)
- Idea,
- Proposal,
- Treatment: story, a synopsis, a blueprint, events are explained
- Script: screen play format is used for writing this
- Draft 1 & 2,
- Storyboard
- Scene: location (int. or ext.
- Sequence:
- Shots: indicated by ws (wide shot), close shot etc.
- Transitions: how we get from one scene to another
- Cuts:









