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ART 128 / CA86 Spring 2009
Wednesday 5:00 - 9:50 p.m.

Instructor:
Takafumi Ide
< idet(at)sunysuffolk.edu >


Meetings
Lecture and Lab
Reading / Assignments
Week 1 Feb 4
  • Intro to Course and instructor
  • Review Syllabus
  • "Who am I" sheet
  • Computers in Animation
  • Intro to Mac OSX / Hardware / Software / File Management
  • Intro to In Class Assignments (finish up in class or by due time/day) and Projects
  • Intro to Flash CS4 - workspace, stage, drawing tools, strokes and fills, color, transforming objects
  • Sample work
  • Chapter 1, 2, 3 & 4
-- In Class Assignment 1:
  • My First Drawing in Flash CS4 (using brush, primitive shape)
 NEXT Reading
  • Chapter 5, 6 & 8
Week 2 Feb 11
  • Methods of Ideation: Brainstorming
  • Discuss animations communicative properties lists, maps, thumbnails, storyboards
  • The timeline: Frames
  • Intro to Project 1 - Frame-by-frame: Simple animation
  • Chapter 5, 6 & 8
-- Work Session:
  • Project 1
 NEXT Reading
  • Chapter 6 & 9
Week 3 Feb 18
  • Work session by 6 pm for Project 1
  • Critique for Project 1 - Frame-by-frame: Simple animation
  • Pictorial considerations of Animation
  • Intro to Project 2 - Tweening Animation
  • Characteristics of movement
  • The timeline: Keyframes, Classic Tweening, and Guides
  • Project 1 due at 6pm
  • Chapter 6 & 9
  • info LICA compe
-- In Class Assignment 2:
  • Three simple animations
 NEXT Reading
  • Chapter 10
Week 4 Feb 25
  • Sequence
  • Shape tweening and hints, Masking
  • Narrative- linear and non-linear
  • Storyboarding
  • Project 2 Proposal due
  • Chapter 10
  • info LICA compe
-- Work Session:
  • Project 2
 NEXT Reading
  • Chapter 7 & 16
Week 5 Mar 4
  • Critique for Project 2 - Tweening Animation
  • Intro to Project 3 - Narrative animation
  • Techniques in Character animation
  • Symbols and the Library
  • Non-Flash Graphics: Quicktime movies
  • more Storyboarding
-- In Class Assignment 3:
  • Rotoscoping
 NEXT Reading
  • Chapter 16
Week 6 Mar 11
  • Presentation: Project 3 Storyboards
  • Generating imagery: vector drawing and bitmap importing
  • Scenes, transitions, camera work
  • Non-Flash Graphics: JPEGs and Trace Bitmap
  • Project 3 Storyboards/Proposal due
  • Chapter 16
-- Work Session:
  • Project 3 & Catch Up
 NEXT Reading
  • Chapter 14
Week 7 Mar 18 Project Time NO CLASS (Takafumi in Rochester for solo show)  
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Week 8 Mar 25
  • Progressive considerations of Animation
  • Discussion: Interactivity
  • Buttons and ActionScript 2.0 (object)
  • Title Sequence
  • Chapter 14
-- In Class Assignment 4:
  • Simple navigation
 NEXT Reading
  • Chapter 17
Week 9 Apr 1
  • Critique for Project 3 - Nrrative Animation
  • Intro to Final Project: Interactive Animation
  • Sound in Flash
  • More buttons and ActionScript 2.0 (frame)
  • Project 3 due at 5pm
  • Chapter 17
-- In Class Assignment 5:
  • Sound (Timing / Pause / Effects)
 NEXT Reading
  • Chapter 15 (OPTION)
Week 10 Apr 8 Spring break / No Class  
--  
  • Stonyboards/Proposal
Week 11 Apr 15
  • Presentation: Final Project Storyboards
  • Tweening and some techniques
  • Individual Meeting w/Storyboards for Final Project: Interactive Animation
  • More basic ActionScript 2.0 (frame)
  • Final Project Storyboards/Proposal due
  • Chapter 15 (OPTION)
-- In Class Assignment 6:
  • TBA / Catch Up
 NEXT Reading
  • Chapter 18
Week 12 Apr 22
  • Publishing
  • Webpage basics
  • Editing Sound in GarageBand
  • Chapter 11 (OPTION)
-- Work Session:
  • Final Project
  
Week 13 Apr 29
  • In Process Critique for Final Project
  
-- Work Session:
  • Final Project
Week 14 May 6
  • TBA
  
-- Work Session:
  • Final Project
  
Final May 13
  • Final Projects Critique ? hours: TBA


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