Computer Animation Arts

What follows are instructions for your crit presentations and reminders of what you need to present and submit. Please use your social networks to ensure everyone has seen this information and understood it. Any queries, please leave a comment and I'll clarify where necessary. In response to the three story components given you at the time of briefing, you are asked to pre-produce an original two minute animation.  Your pre-production is to be submitted in 2 parts; 1) Pre-Viz, to include: a) 2d animatic with soundtrack & transitions. b) Maya pre-viz with soundtrack & transitions 2) An ‘Art Of’ publication, to include: a) concept art : environment design b) concept art : character design c) concept art : prop design d) Final environment designs e) Final prop designs f) Final character designs (character sheets) g) Final presentation storyboards h) Final script You are asked to produce a comprehensive blog archiving and annotating your creative developmen...

Wednesday 8th February is your 'From Script To Screen' Online Greenlight Review 2 (OGR) Your OGR is to be presented as a single Scribd presentation on your blog, beginning with your name, date, and project title. Save your documents as PDFs before uploading to Scribd, as this should mitigate against formating glitches. Your OGR presentations should be uploaded to your blogs by 9pm on Wednesday 8th February. Written feedback will follow as a comment on your OGR post and will take between 2 - 3 days. From Script To Screen OGR 2: What do you need to present? Final script (as written using Adobe Story ). Completed storyboards (with illustrated camera moves etc. in accordance with storyboarding conventions.   I want to see a variety of shots  and no stick men please!). Your definitive 'Production Design' influence map (the art direction underpinning your story world). Developmental thumbnails & concept art for Character(s) / Environment(s) / Prop...

Monday, 23rd January* is your 'From Script To Screen' Online Greenlight Review (OGR) Your OGR is to be presented as a single Scribd presentation on your blog, beginning with your name, date, and project title. Save your documents as PDFs before uploading to Scribd, as this should mitigate against formating glitches. Your OGR presentations should be uploaded to your blogs by 9pm on Monday 23rd January. Written feedback will follow as a 'comment' on your OGR post and will take between 2 - 3 days (or even a bit longer, orchestra-depending!). From Script To Screen OGR: What do you need to present? The premise of your story The logline of your story The step outline of your story  Your 'like-for-like' storyboard segment (complete) The emphasis of this first OGR is not you giving me full-blown scripts, but rather these condensed summaries of your stories and structures. You might have written more in-depth versions as part of your own process,...

Thanks for your patience and enthusiasm today - a BIG multi-component briefing, but I got a sense you lot were excited and looking forward to getting stuck in - which is great!  I'm just dropping by to notify you that the audio from both of today's briefings are available now on myUCA.  There are a number of specific follow-up activities I want you to do now, which I'm listing below: 1) If you haven't done so already, get your 3 story words up on your blog and then visit your respective creative partners and offer up some of your immediate ideas to their three words.  I want a virtuous circle of easy, instinctive discussion - everyone gets a nice push at the start of the brief.  For a reminder of whom is in your 'creative collective' go here .   Just to be super clear about how I want this to work: you each offer up your thoughts on the three words of each your creative partners. By the end of the process, you should all have a whole bunch of ideas ...

As you start thinking about your story ideas and planning your project timetables, take a look at these examples of previous student work in response to the From Script to Screen project brief - all of which began with those same 3 random slips of paper! Charlie Serafini - A Tern For The Better A Tern For The Better - Art Of    Lucy Yelding - Gie (Animatic) Gie 'Art Of'     Samantha Niemczyk -  The Chefs Of Tonga Island  (animatic) The Chefs Of Tonga Island 'Art Of' Jono Pearmain - A Hero's Hat (Maya Pre-viz) A Hero's Hat - 'Art Of' This brief is much more than an exercise in satisfying the year one CAA curriculum. This is your first experience of getting an original story idea from 'script to screen' - and what you accomplish in the next few weeks might be just the beginning of a much more ambitious creative experience. Back in early 2010, lecturer  ...