Motion Graphics

Week one: Introductions | Principles of Animation

Class 01 | Wednesday, Jan 20

  • Welcomes
  • Meet and Greet
  • Syllabus review | portfolio development course, how to think in motion | sound as a design component
  • 12 Principles of Animation video & post
  • cyclical animation principles
  • Spotify album cover in motion
  • what is a proof of concept? How to achieve it quickly. Flip books | stop motion app, story boarding low tech solutions


Homework:

  • Get flashcards, holder & sketchbook (8.5×11) or digital
  • Install software –  Adobe After Effects and Premiere
  • download stopmotion app, turn one sketch into a stop motion animation
  • Research
    • Album covers, potential musicians
  • make flashcards of the 12 principles of animation – What are the major benefits of each principle?

Week two: Understanding keyframes, animation principles

Class 02 | Monday, Jan 25

  • Homework review, music research – which of your music groups are you the most excited about?
  • 12 principles of animation review
  • ASSIGNMENT: cyclical animation
  • After Effects intro
  • Understanding keyframes

Homework:

Links:

Class 03 | Wednesday, Jan 27

  • Concept review, cyclical animations
  • Work day

Homework:

Week Three: Adobe Animate

Class 04 | Monday, Feb 1

Animation workflow

Adobe Animate

Homework:

Links:

Class 05 | Wednesday, Feb 3

Homework:

  • major progress on spotify canvas

Week Four: After Effects

Class 06 | Monday, Feb 8

Homework:

  • Upload latest canvas animation and album cover to slack
  • Story board one round of edits to your Lumuku character

Class 07 | Wednesday, Feb 10

Homework: 

Week Five: Objects on a path, Puppet tool

Class 08 | Tuesday, Feb 16 | follow M schedule

Homework: 

  • continue to develop cyclical animation

Class 09 | Wednesday, Feb 17

  • Spotify canvas due
  • Group review

Homework: 

Week Six: Masking, Graph Editor

Class 10 | Monday, Feb 22

Homework: 

  • develop concepts for identity in motion
  • read two articles one | two

Class 11 | Tuesday, Feb 24

  • Review of inspirational artists
  • Graph editor tool
  • Lumuku workday

Homework

  • Use both the puppet tool and graph editor to modify your lumuku animation, post to #works-in-progress channel
  • Create a 8.5″ x 11″ style guide for the brand you are working with for identity in motion, using page three of Visual systems presentation
    • color (both main color and supporting colors)
    • typography
    • logo
    • illustration or photography style
    • brand mission
    • five descriptive adjectives you would use to describe the brand
  • Research similar brands to the ones you are working with, collect visual research

    Post both your style guide (as a pdf) and your similar brands (at least two) as a single post to the works-in-progress channel

Week Seven: Sound

Class 12 | Monday, March 1

  • Masking
    Lecture and Demonstration: Sound
  • Identity in motion assignment work day, Lara to check in with people individually

Links:

https://vimeo.com/motioncorpse

Homework:

  • identity in motion assignment work day, Lara to check in with people individually

Class 13 | Wednesday, March 3

  • Identity assignment, in process review

SPRING BREAK Mar 8 – Mar 12

Week Eight: Lights, Cameras and Sound

Class 14 – Monday, March 15

Individual checkins

Homework

  • Post the latest version of your lumuku animation to the #lumuku channel
  • Next steps for your identity in motion, post to your individual channels

Class 15| Wednesday, March 17

  • Sound layering with after effects/premiere 
  • Sound for p5.js
  • Inspirational artist working with sound

http://csh.bz/

https://ztul.itch.io/the-uncle-who-works-for-nintendo (uses sound)

  • assignment: emerging technologies

Homework

  • develop emerging technologies concept

Week Nine: Expressions

Class 16 | Monday, March 22

Class 17 | Wednesday, March 24

  • Lab: (relink sound, camera, lights lab)

Week Ten: Interaction

Class 18 – Monday, March 29

  • Project Inspiration – Tristan Rodman (a hypertext record)
  • Moon Method
  • graph editor and expressions demonstration
  • Lara meet individually with 1/2 of students

Class 19 | Wednesday, March 31

  • work day, Lara to meet individually with student to discuss semester progress

Week Eleven: Video

Class 20 | Monday, April 5

  • develop proposal (2 paragraphs) for final project
  • work day

Class 21 | Wednesday, April 7

Homework: major development on one project

Week Twelve: Text Animator

Class 22 | Monday, April 12

Class 23 | Wednesday, April 14

  • students to meet in small groups to review project progress

Week Thirteen

Class 24 – Wednesday, April 21

  • troubleshooting in groups, Lara meeting with students individually

Week Fourteen

Class 25 – Monday, April 26

  • half of students to present progress
  • troubleshooting in groups, Lara meeting with students individually

Class 27 – Wednesday, April 28

  • Last day of classes
  • half of students to present progress
  • troubleshooting in groups, Lara meeting with students individually

final

Tuesday, May 4 | 12 – 2pm

  • Review of edits to projects as links & any revised previous projects due 
  • all deployed to github, class drive or as live urls