Several Second Stories - The Finished Animations!

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Several Second Story

Before we begin, everybody:

1. Please download
2. Easytoon.

Final Assignment:

Steps:

1. Turn on your computer.
2. You have time to work on 10 of your pictures today. You will have time to finish the other 10 tomorrow.
3. When finished, please save your files with the SAVE button, not the GIF button. It needs to be named "your name part #"
4. Turn it in to me using DropItToMe. The password is the same as usual. Your file will probably be under Documents or Downloads.
5. If you finish and still have time, you may use Youtube.

Final Animation Project

Today, we'll start working on the plan for our final animation project:

10-second stories!  

What we will do is get into groups of 5 people and decide on one 10-second story to tell.
Here are some examples of animations that are just about 10 seconds long:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVFKJpBjIE
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qmDOzS2Olg
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPryTc7CW7E

Because there will be 5 people in each group, each person will need to draw 2 seconds, or about 20 frames. That means each person needs to make about 20 small drawings.

                                                                                  

      Person 1             Person 2             Person 3              Person 4             Person 5     

        Part 1                      Part 2                     Part 3                   Part 4                   Part 5      

                                                     

     20 Drawings       20 Drawings       20 Drawings        20 Drawings        20 Drawings   

    2 Seconds              2 Seconds            2 Seconds              2 Seconds            2 Seconds      

Here are some good and bad examples:

Good:

• All the drawings are in slow motion. The drawings only change a little bit from one to the next.

• The pages link together at the beginning and the end. They all fit together like parts of a story.

• All the pages are worked on at the same time. Because you planned your story, you know what will be happening on each page of your plan.

Bad:

• The drawings happen to quickly. Things change too much from one drawing to the next. Things suddenly appear without coming into the drawing slowly. 

• The pages do not fit together. The end of one page does not match with the beginning of the next.

• Only the first 2 pages are worked on. You have not used your story plan to know what will be happening at the beginning and end of each page of your plan.

So, what you need to do is:

1. Get into groups
2. Decide on a story
3. Tell me the story in 5 parts
4. Begin your drawing!!!

You may begin.