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Week 6 Classwork

Topics to cover. Crossoff as completed.
Interface Tour, Transforms: Position, Scale, Rotation, Opacity, Anchor Point, Keyframing, Motion Blur, Timeline Editing, The Wiggler, Motion Sketch, The Smoother and Rendering, Animating Text, Adding Effects, Blend Modes, Adjustment Layers, Masks, Paths, Track Mattes, Parenting, Null Objects, Precomposing, 3D Camera, 3D Lights, 3D Layers, Working with Cinema 4D Camera Data, Keying, Motion Tracking, Motion Stabilizing, Roto Scoping, Color Correction, Color Stylizing, Slow Motion, Particles, Expressions, Puppet Tool, Shape Layers, Flash Intergration, Compound Effects.

Week 6 Homework

BOOK TUTORIAL
Complete AE Apprentice pgs 82 - 95

INSPIRATIONAL Karin Fong
http://www.submarinechannel.com/interviews/index.jsp?id=24451
http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/fong/
http://imaginaryforces.com/

Design Look for Project 3 - DUE Week 7
Animate Project 1 - DUE Week 8
Animate Project 2 - DUE Week 9

Week 7 Classwork

Topics to cover. Crossoff as completed.
Interface Tour, Transforms: Position, Scale, Rotation, Opacity, Anchor Point, Keyframing, Motion Blur, Timeline Editing, The Wiggler, Motion Sketch, The Smoother and Rendering, Animating Text, Adding Effects, Blend Modes, Adjustment Layers, Masks, Paths, Track Mattes, Parenting, Null Objects, Precomposing, 3D Camera, 3D Lights, 3D Layers, Working with Cinema 4D Camera Data, Keying, Motion Tracking, Motion Stabilizing, Roto Scoping, Color Correction, Color Stylizing, Slow Motion, Particles, Expressions, Puppet Tool, Shape Layers, Flash Intergration, Compound Effects.

Week 7 Homework 

BOOK TUTORIAL
Complete AE Apprentice pgs 96 - 105

INSPIRATIONAL Kyle Cooper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Cooper
http://www.prologuefilms.com/
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/cooper.html
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/fall1997/kylecooper.php

Animate Project 1 - DUE Week 8
Animate Project 2 - DUE Week 9
Animate Project 3 - DUE Week 10

Week 8 Classwork 

Topics to cover. Crossoff as completed.
Interface Tour, Transforms: Position, Scale, Rotation, Opacity, Anchor Point, Keyframing, Motion Blur, Timeline Editing, The Wiggler, Motion Sketch, The Smoother and Rendering, Animating Text, Adding Effects, Blend Modes, Adjustment Layers, Masks, Paths, Track Mattes, Parenting, Null Objects, Precomposing, 3D Camera, 3D Lights, 3D Layers, Working with Cinema 4D Camera Data, Keying, Motion Tracking, Motion Stabilizing, Roto Scoping, Color Correction, Color Stylizing, Slow Motion, Particles, Expressions, Puppet Tool, Shape Layers, Flash Intergration, Compound Effects.

Week 8 Homework

BOOK TUTORIAL
Complete AE Apprentice pgs 106 - 119

INSPIRATIONAL Harry Marks
http://www.i3forum.com/bios/marks.html
http://www.storycenter.org/diner/pages/hm1.html
http://www.siggraph.org/s2002/media/release3.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM-Vkd7On2Q
http://www.tvparty.com/vaultmov.html
http://typographica.org/000388.php

Animate Project 2 - DUE Week 9
Animate Project 3 - DUE Week 10

Week 9 Classwork
TEST TEST TEST....oh yeah, just in case you didn't see this...FINAL EXAM

Topics to cover. Crossoff as completed.
Interface Tour, Transforms: Position, Scale, Rotation, Opacity, Anchor Point, Keyframing, Motion Blur, Timeline Editing, The Wiggler, Motion Sketch, The Smoother and Rendering, Animating Text, Adding Effects, Blend Modes, Adjustment Layers, Masks, Paths, Track Mattes, Parenting, Null Objects, Precomposing, 3D Camera, 3D Lights, 3D Layers, Working with Cinema 4D Camera Data, Keying, Motion Tracking, Motion Stabilizing, Roto Scoping, Color Correction, Color Stylizing, Slow Motion, Particles, Expressions, Puppet Tool, Shape Layers, Flash Intergration, Compound Effects.

Week 9 Homework

BOOK TUTORIAL
Complete AE Apprentice pgs 120 - 133

INSPIRATIONAL Post Houses
http://www.beliefdesign.com/
http://www.charlex.com/flash/
http://www.d-kitchen.com/
http://www.eyeballnyc.com/
http://www.freestylecollective.com/home.php
http://www.mk12.com/

Animate Project 3 - DUE Week 10

Week 10 Classwork

Clean up all projects

Week 10 Homework

Clean up all projects

Week 11

Critique!

Hand in Concepts, Designs and Animations for all 3 projects. Concepts and designs need to be mounted for presentation
Final animations need to be rendered out as a Full Resolution NTSC DV 720x480 Quicktime with a Photo Jpeg set to High Codec with Audio set to 48khz



 
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