Motion Typography Assignment

Using the design process, as we do for EVERYTHING we do in this class the FIRST step is

1. Understanding your goal

Objective: Based upon a poem, song, speech or movie/tv scene you will be creating a typographic animation using Flash or After Effects and possibly Illustrator and Photoshop.

This should be between 15-30 seconds and should demonstrate your understanding of the 12 principles of animation. See handout for more parameters and specific requirements.

2. Research
The next step in creating your kinetic typography is research. Begin your research by watching The Child by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet and then searching for great examples of motion typography.



Find ONE that you think demonstrates at least 8 principles of animation and post it on your blog by embedding in a blog post. Write down (can be jot notes) the timecode and describe each of the principles of animation that you've identified. For example, at 0:58:21 (58 seconds and 21 frames - if you can see frames in the timecode) there is a great examples of exaggeration when the word STOP comes flying towards the viewer and grows extremely large.

Due Monday by the end of class.

3. Pick a Source
With your research complete, pick a source (video, poem, song, speech etc.) that would result in a 15-30 second animation. Make this choice quickly and stick to it. There is no time to waste, so make your choice by Monday March 3rd at the latest!

4. Pick a font

5. Storyboard. 
You need to plan our how you will be laying out your type and how you will be animating it to match the content and atmosphere and timing of your source.

6. Create.
Finally, you will create your background(s) and your type animations in Flash or After Effects.


After Effects Instructional Videos
http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/

BONUS MARK OPPORTUNITY
Also, as you begin planning, if there is something you want to do that you don't know how to do, please search for a tutorial online. If you share your new technique in a blog post and also show others how to do it, you will receive bonus marks.

Animating Type and Importing Sound

Animating Type in Flash

Importing Sound in Flash

Working with sound  Sound by weird Australian guy pretending to be Texan. Weird, but informative.

Some free sounds below

findsound.com
flashkit.com

Also freesound.org


To EDIT sound in Flash you can follow these instructions, however, for more precision, use Garage Band or Audacity to edit the sound to the exact in and out point that you want.
EDITING SOUND IN FLASH

Assessing your bouncing ball classic tween

How do I know I've achieved a "realistic" animation of a bouncing ball?

1. Layers are labelled accurately
2. Symbols have been created for both the ball and the shadow (graphics)
3. Ball has accurate squash when falling and rising and stretch when hitting the ground
4. Shadow moves with the ball, starts light and large when ball is high and gets darker and smaller when closer.
5. Easing in and easing out for both ball and shadow.
6. There should be 5 keyframes for both the ball and shadow - Start, Stretch, Squash, Stretch (copied frames from 1st stretch) and End (copied frames from Start).

When you are satisfied with your result, please submit your .fla file AND exported .swf file with your name in the file name. Name_ball_classictween.fla
Put both in your drop off folder in year one.

Motion Tweens

Now that you have learned some basics about creating classic tweens, using keyframes and some basic shortcuts in flash, it's time for motion tweens.

Watch these two videos - part I and part 2 to learn about what motion tweens can do, then watch the motion tween with monkeys video.

Create a short animation using a graphic symbol you create (or you can use an image like the one of Psy) to practice using motion tweens. Use at least 4 of the 8 different techniques used in the monkey video in your animation.
Make it quick and simple - we'll be moving on tomorrow. Save it in your folder.
I'm not looking for fancy, just that you understand motion tweens.


1. Basic motion tween: Gangnam style  Part I

and Part 2: make Psy dance

2. Motion tween with monkeys

Reviewing the 12 principles of animation

For more information and detail about what each of those principles actually means, check out this article about the 'old men of Disney' and the 12 principles of animation. They actually developed these principles and they still check out today and the basis for all animation.

Pose to Pose - understanding key poses. Click here to get a better understanding of creating key poses that essentially create your animation.

Inbetweens and motion arcs. Here you can learn about how to make things appear smooth - timing and motion arcs are particularly important.

Posting your Illustrator drawing

1. Please go to THIS SITE to read about file formats and when to use them.

2. Make a decision based on your reading as to which file format to use to save your work and post it.

3. Post your Illustrator drawing as well as the original photograph of the object you chose to illustrate.

4. Write about the following:
A. Justify your decision about file format. Explain based on factual information - from this or other articles. Link the site that I gave you and any others you may have found as a reference. Embed the link in your blog post.

B. Explain your procedure - providing technical information using the correct terminology to discuss how you created an accurate and moderately realistic looking vector drawing with as few anchor points as possible.

C. What challenges did you come across along the way and how did you overcome them?

D. Are you please with your final result? If so, please discuss. If not, please discuss.

5. Submit your work - .ai file AND the file you chose for posting on the web.

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Pen Tool Tutorial for Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.
20 minute tutorial on Adobe TV

Illustrator specific pen tool tutorial

Semester 2 - Assignment #1 - Pixel Portrait

Once you have completed your pixel portrait:

1. Go back to the handout - (pick up folder on Lakeshore NAS) - to ensure that you have created this using the correct paramaters. Resolution, size, white background.

2. Save your image with the appropriate TWO different file formats. Put YOUR NAME in the file name and PIXELPORTRAIT. Like this: name_pixelportrait.gif and name_pixelportrait.png

3. Drop BOTH image formats into the DROP OFF - in YOUR FOLDER under Year Two. ALSO drop off the saved, finished .psd original version so that I can see your work.

4. Post Both images on your blog in a blog post TITLED: Pixel Portrait.
Label each of the images according to the file format.

5. Write one or two paragraphs that explain the following information:
      a. File format comparison - visually compare both image formats.
      What happens when you enlarge them. Do they look the same, different? Why/why not? Look at            line quality, colour etc. Which one looks better in terms of quality? Explain

      b. Personal features and characteristics - explain which features or personal characteristics you           were attempting to accentuate and why. Explain your choice of colour palette and it's significance.

      c. Technical information  - explain your technical procedure. How did you go about achieving             your final result? Explain your process  -  did you use a photograph and work over it? Did you               work over or under the photo layer? Did you work by eye? Explain.

6. Use this as your avatar on your blog - keep it up for 2 weeks minimum.