Digital vs. Analogue Cut-Out Character Puppets

AND142 Animation Characters and Narrative      Week 3     This post is of week 3 of the first-year animation course AND142 Animation Characters and Narrative. I am attending this course in order to aid my exploration, research and development for EXD300.      Notes      Composition  ELEMENTS of NARRATIVE  (Sets the CONSISTENCY of your film) Theme Plot Structure Characters Settings Perspective  Types of Shots Extreme Long Shot Long Shot Medium Shot Close-Up Very Long Shot Medium Long Shot Medium Close-Up Big Close-Up Extreme Close-Up  Film   Le coeur est un métronome  (The Heart is a Metronome) by J.C. Mbotti  Rule of 180-Degree  This is the 180 line that should govern your camera movement  for the scene. When you position the camera for a dialogue scene , the key is to keep the camera on one side of the imaginary axis along this straight line for the duration of the scene. ...

AND141 Sketching and Drawing for Animation 2nd Semester     Week 3     In the third class of the second semester Sketching and Drawing for Animation course AND141,  we started learning color. To begin, we used color pencils and focused first on only using one color (monochromatic), then slowly expanded our palettes to either analogous, triadic, or complimentary schemes.      Exercise 1     Prompt:  Write an emotion you feel when walking through a forest or park. Then pick a random paper that you didn't write.  Choose one color that in your mind represents the given emotion and draw a composition inspired by it.  My given emotion was Fear / Trauma . In response, I chose a strikingly bright red pencil, and black, medium grey, light grey, and white to create dimension without switching hues.     Definitions     Hue  - the color  of paint as it appears out of the tube, unmixed.     Value...

EXD300 Written Proposal   Week 3     In the third class of the second semester Final Project course, we reviewed the format in which we must arrange our written proposal.   Written Proposal Format     The format for the written proposal is as follows: A.      Title of proposed assignment and personal details  Project title, student's name, programme of study and year. B.    Project Synopsis / Overview  A short, 2 or 3 sentence summary giving an overview of the project: its broad aims and objectives. C.    Rationale  Outline the reason for undertaking this project. D.    Analysis of the Design Problem / Subject  What (if any) is the purpose of the design work intended to be carried out? E.    Research / Context (Do not duplicate any information given elsewhere in the proposal)  Provide information that gives ‘the broader picture’ explaining the context for the work. ...