Several Second Stories - The Finished Animations!

To see our other animations, please visit: ibshart.tumblr.com

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.

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Assignment 5: Fixing Broken Animations

Hello, everyone! Today I'm going to walk you through how to fix your animation when you make mistakes!

Before we begin, everybody:

1. Please download
2. Easytoon.
3. Please download this broken animation I made: Broken Animation

Assignment 5:

I want you to be able to do 3 things:

•  Put new frames in your animation to slow it down (this part is a review)
•  Take pictures off of one frame and put them onto another, in the right place
•  Make copies of frames, so something stays visible for a long time

Steps:

1. Please follow along with me as I show you how to do these things.
2. When finished, please save your files with the GIF button. It needs to be named "4 your name"
3. Turn it in to me using DropItToMe. The password is the same as usual. Your file will probably be under Documents or Downloads.
4. If you finish very quickly, see if you can make your animation longer. If you're not sure, check with me.
5. If you finish and still have time, you may use Easytoon however you like.

Assignment 4 - Careful Motion Part 2!

Hello, students! Today is a "Catch-Up" class. You can go to our class Tumblr to see your animations all in one place: IBSH Art Tumblr

If you are missing any animations, you have time to make them and turn them in today! 
If you are missing old assignments, please check with me to make sure you are uploading them correctly! Here are the assignment instructions:

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3

If you need to make up any of these assignments, please do them first. If you do not have time to finish our "Catch-Up" assignment, that is OK. If you would like to do Assignment 4 instead of assignment 1, that is also OK.

Assignment 4:

1. Please download Easytoon.
2. Today, the most important thing to do is make a smooth-looking animation, like we did with the stinging arm for the last assignment. This time, it can be whatever you want, though!
3. Please focus on slowing down your animation so it looks very smooth, making each drawing change just a little bit at a time.
4. When finished, please save your files with the GIF button. It needs to be named "4 your name"
5. Turn it in to me using DropItToMe. The password is the same as usual. Your file will probably be under Documents or Downloads.
6. If you finish very quickly, see if you can make your animation longer. If you're not sure, check with me.
7. If you finish and still have time, you may use Easytoon however you like.

Assignment 3: Careful Motion!

Ok, now that we've finished some assignments, let's work on really making our motion look good.

• Get with a neighbor, and look at each other while you swing an arm back and forth. This is a pretty simple movement that we do when we're walking.
• Notice what parts of the arm move. Does the shoulder move a lot? Does the hand move a lot?
• What I want you to think about is this: We are going to make an arm-swinging animation, ok? If we are going to make an animation that will last for 1 second, how will we know how many pictures we need?
• You will need about 10-12 frames to make an animation one second long. This is how fast Easytoon runs.
• So, for our assignment, we're going to make a little plan on paper, and then do in-betweening to make sure the arm is at the right place at the right time!

Assignment:

1. Please download Easytoon.
2. Using your plan, please make 2 seconds of animation. The first second will be the arm going forward, like in your plan. The second second will be the arm going back to where it started - basically your plan backward.
3. When finished, please save your files with the GIF button. It needs to be named "3 your name"
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 very quickly, you can try to see if you can animate some legs walking.
6. If you finish the second animation and still have time, you may use Easytoon however you like.