At the AGO w/Henry Moore Sculpture. Photographed by Vacho.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Two's - New Blog Assignment:

Please write a reflection on our trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario.  What do you notice about seeing art first hand rather than in a book or online? Would you go again on your own? (don't forget free after 3 for students Tues- Fri)

Visit the Google Art Project to find artwork from the AGO that you remember and that made an impression on you (good or bad!)  Upload to your blog.
http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/art-gallery-of-ontario/

Or you may want to upload a photo that you took yourself that day.  Consider choosing a painting from the art history period you've studied for our presentations; choose a piece of art that really 'moved' you;  or even one that made you mad...  

Be sure to explain why you chose the piece and what you think about this artwork.  Let's stir up some discussion!  Visit each other's blogs and exchange ideas please;  that's half the fun! 

Note:  Not all of the AGO's artwork is on this site; however, the Google Art Project allows you to view many images in extremely high resolution.  If you can't find an image of an artwork you saw at the gallery, you may be able to find it on the usual 'Google images'. 

This assignment is due by next Monday, April 15th  and will be marked in lieu of a sketchbook assignment this week.  Thanks!

Inspiring speeches, poems and kinetic typography

Why I hate school but love education.

Why I hate religion but love Jesus

Find some inspirational speeches or poems that you think might make for good kinetic typography.

Also, find at least two kinetic typography pieces to share with the class. Post them on your blog and discuss why you find them inspiring as animations.

Here are a few amazing pieces to check out.

This one is about Helvetica. That's right, the typeface. Helvetica.


Let the Drummer Kick - great music video. Check out how well the typographic illustration and animation matches the content of the words...Determination....Identification...



This one is just set to music, but it used the characters on a keyboard as imagery. Very interesting...

Motion, shape and classic tweens. What?!

If you're feeling confused about what the difference is between a motion tween, a classic tween and a shape tween (that's right, there's also shape tweens), please click HERE.

Your next task is to

Tweens and things...

Some useful links.

Here's one that provides information on several different possible motion tweens in Flash CS6 from lynda.com


Start here!


Bitmaps vs. Vectors. Click here for the video

Lossy vs. lossless compression. Click here

Bouncing Ball
You will create a bouncing ball (sphere) animation that squashes and stretches, and has a shadow underneath that follows it's path. It should also slow down and speed up accurately - implementing some of the "easing in" and "easing out" ideas from the motion tweens video. Keep those artistic principles in mind (or should I say elements) when you create the sphere. What makes a circle look like a sphere? Or a shape look like a form?


First read this on the 12 Principles of Animation THEN check out this VIDEO for help in illustrating the principles.

This is another article that describes the principles in a way that's fairly easy to understand. You can click HERE to read it.

Once you have read these and think you understand the principles well enough to teach them to the class, come up with a creative way to explain and demonstrate them to your classmates.

You will be graded on creativity, communication and clarity.

In other words:
1. Finding a creative and unique way to show/tell/explain the principles
2. Communicating it - using a clear voice, accurately describing/relaying the information
3. Being clear - make sure it's easy to comprehend, through the use of your "creative" demonstration techniques.

Use visuals as well as verbal - oral and written if it helps.

To present: Next Wednesday March 6 in class.

You can decide whether you're going to work on the bouncing ball or the animation principles over the next few days.

Flash exercise #1

Here is a link to make your own pacman animation, to learn some basics in Flash CS6.

You will then be directed to the next tutorial to finish it. Make sure you follow ALL the steps accurately, before moving forward.

Silverman- Blog Assignment # 2

From the list of blog postings, go to #1
New Technology/Tips and Tricks: Find/discover/share information and links about any kind of new technology or tips and tricks using software, freeware or tutorials.

This week. Find something related to what we have done so far in class - could be Photoshop or Illustrator CS6, or file formats, or rasters vs. vectors. You could teach us something new, or share some information about new media/technology that relates in some way to our introductory weeks in this class.

Blog Assignment #1 - Mask type tool ART!

Mask type tool art. Blog Post # 1.

Your first assignment for this year was to make scratch art and also to use the horizontal mask type tool. Now that you've done and have some idea how to use it, get creative and apply it to something else.

Choose a word - any word and use the mask type tool to create an artistic and creative experience of that word! It's vague, I know, but have fun with it. Use the page and compose your word/image however you'd like. I expect that you'll be saying something by the way that you've composed your image.

That's it.

Due: Friday at the beginning of class. Be prepared to discuss the following:
1. Technical information - how did you do it?
2. Communication - explain what you were trying to achieve.
ALSO - Write the above information on your blog. Please keep in mind that when you are writing on your blog this is for a public audience and therefore you should be mindful of spelling, grammar and capitalizing appropriately! This is not a text, or a tweet, or a facebook post - it's your "professional" face  as a CyberARTS students at Lakeshore.

Parameters:
Size: You can make it the default size in Photoshop.
Colour: Any colour
Word: Any word or words.


Evaluation:
Application - of the mask type tool - proper size/use of tool - image inside the letters (5 marks)
Thinking Inquiry - Creativity and thinking in terms of imagery used and word choice (5 marks)
Communication - Composition and placement, colour, size. What are you saying with the design choices you made? (5 marks)