Thursday, September 6, 2012

Due Tuesday, 9/11

Please look on blackboard for 3 things due Tuesday: 
Research, Story, & Character Design.

Please post them as 3 different blog entries.
Here are correct labels.
  Research labels:  Your Name, Research, Week 1
  Story labels:  Your Name, Story, Week 2
  Character Design labels:  Your Name, Character Design, Week 3

Research:  
1) Food Ad for Children:  include url. Describe briefly what is important.
2) Video you watched (listed in syllabus) Describe briefly what is important

Story: (Type this out in MSW or other.  copy to blog.)

 Title
 Characters 
 Plot - write this out.  Check spelling etc.
 Please also define the following.  If not relevant, please explain.
   Exposition
   Conflict
   Climax
   Resolution

Character Design:
Character sheet for each character, done in Photoshop
  Do front, side, back for each
Photoshop directions:
Hope you know PS well enough to do this.
Open a file 11" tall and 14" wide at 300 ppi.
Draw 3 sides of character from left to right: front, side, and back
Use guide lines on a different layer to guide you to correct proportions -
so all are same height, etc.
You can google character sheet and character design for help.

Please also have in class at least 3 sketches of each character:
try out different ways to represent it.  Fat? Skinny? Tall? Short? Lovely? Ugly? Crooked?
Lovely? Animal?  Different animal? Happy?  Sad? In action maybe?

To Do:
Bring Computer with After Effects and Photoshop on it.
Get a Wacom tablet before you come to class.  At Viz office.






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