Animation

Students will use the skills they have been developing in class to create a animated short film. As part of this unit students will learn about and use a script and a storyboard to visually layout their film. They can use the computer or their own sketches to produce the images to be animated. Student can bring their animation into Premiere Pro to add titles, credits, music, dialog and sound effects to complete their animated film.

Assignment:
Students will create animated short using Photoshop and Animate.

Learning Targets:
Students will learn how to develop characters, a script and storyboard.
Students will learn how to use Photoshop and Animate to create animated shorts.
Students will  learn about color theory and varying techniques used by the impressionist artists.
Students will learn how to use opacity, flow, blur and smudge tools, brushes and brush palette.

Materials:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Animate
Personal Photo Collection
Original Drawing Collection
Pencil
Paper
Computer
Stylus/Wacom tablet


Vocabulary:
Frames                 Walking Cycle         Stage                   Expression        
Photoshop            Animate
Layers                  Layer                       Opacity                Flow

Unit Outline:

1. Photoshop Wiggle/GIF
1. History of animation (1 day)
2. Grim Natwick Assignement
3. Images for the Wiggle
4. How to use frames
5. Exporting finished Wiggle
2. Abode Animate
1. Animation-the step for creating an animated short.
2. Character Design

1. Choose a seed pod to develop as a character
1. On paper
2. In Illustrator
2. Drawing Studies
1. facial expressions
2. walking cycles
1. Write the story for 1 minute animation (1440 frames at 24 fps) 
2. Storyboarding
3. Design Parts-Illustrator
4. Layout in Animate
5. Music/Foley/Dialogue using Premiere Pro

Animation Notes:

• Set-up New Document
• choose ActionScript 3.0
• Do This Once-Under templates>general>actionscript 3.0>set stage size>make default
• Stage size-1280 x 720
• Short Cuts
• f5-add key frames
• f6-add a duplicate key frame
• f7-deletes key frames
• f8-symbol conversion
• < > moves through the key frames to see the action
• enter-stop and start
• ctrl/alt/c-copies in the time line (do not use ctrl/c as it flattens the artwork into one layer)