ARTD 2812: BC Multimedia: Classes 1-3

Class Introduction and Review
- opening class software (Sketchbook, AfterEffects, Premiere)
- what is animation, what is compositing?
- review of Photoshop and Illustrator
-Sketchbook basics

• basic tools
• pen tablet sketching
• importing images
• exporting files
• layers

​Screenings

• White Stripes "Walking with A Ghost"
• Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
• Cyriak, Welcome to Kitty City
• Jeff Scher, L'eau Life
• Home Movies Clip
• William Kentridge

• Read: 12 Principles of Animation
• Assignment (due next class): From Flipbooks to Software
• Complete online tutorials for Sketchbook software

Line Animation with Sketchbook and Animate

• Look at FLIPBOOKS in class
• Frame by Frame Animation
• using the Wacom tablet
• Work on Frame by Frame
  • Layers and the timeline
  • Keyframes
  • Basic Tweening
  • Onion skinning

• Harriet Titlow, boil and trouble

DUE TODAY: PROJECT 1, Flipbooks and Sketchbook file
We will pass around flip books in class.
Watch: Walk sequence tutorial
Assignment (due next week):
Frame by Frame

Sketchbook and Tweening
Look at Frame by Frame Animations

Adding Sound and Motion

• GarageBand input/output
• multiitracking
• filters
• editing techniques
• foley techniques (ducking)

Adobe Animate

Making art in Animate

• the Animate workspace (stage, pasteboard, timeline, layers, properties panels)
• importing assets
• drawing tools (basic shapes, strokes and fills, object drawing, brushes)

• Ari Folman -- Waltz With Bashir
• William Kentridge animations
• Conrad Schnitzler, Video Works

DUE: PROJECT 2, Frame by Frame Animation