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 developme...

Wednesday 24th January  is your 'From Script To Screen' Online Greenlight Review Part 1  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 24th January. Written feedback will follow as a 'comment' on your OGR post and will take between 2 - 3 days. 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, but all I want to see on OGR day is yo...

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! Mark Bridgland - Laoshu Laoshu - Art Of 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' Douy Singsamran 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 t...

Thought you might be interested in this... Free, open-source storyboarding software called Storyboarder .  I learned about it from Animation Tidbits and you can find out more about it here .