ICM 504

Module 7: Animated Sign Board

This Week’s Reading: Chapter 10 – Show & Tell: The final section of the book “Animated Storytelling” by Liz Blazer talks about the very important part of creating which is sharing what you created. This is a relaiivly short section but the points she makes in it are very important. Once you’ve finished your animation,Continue reading “Module 7: Animated Sign Board”

Module 6: User Interface Motion

This Week’s Reading: Animate: In Chapter 9 of “Animated Storytelling” by Liz Blazer, Blazer dives deep into the actual act of animation. By the end of the chapter she went over 14 different tips and tricks to make sure your animations are as realistic and fun to watch as can be. The few tips thatContinue reading “Module 6: User Interface Motion”

Module 5: Motion for Promotion

This Week’s Reading: Technique: This week the author of Animated Storytelling, Liz Blazer, talked about different techniques and styles that animation can be done in. Blazer lists and describes 5 different techniques and 6 different styles to utilize when animating. For techniques, you can hand draw the animation using different still frames and they canContinue reading “Module 5: Motion for Promotion”

Module 4: Stop Motion Production and Post Production

This Week’s Readings: Sound: When it comes to creating, people always think about the story, and the pictures/video/designs needed to create it, but when it comes to sound most people only think about dialogue. In reality most times sound ends up being the most important part of a video. If you have terrible sound theContinue reading “Module 4: Stop Motion Production and Post Production”

Module 3: Stop Motion Research & Pre-Production

Reading’s for the Week Color: When you see the word color you must think of kindergarten class learning all the colors of the rainbow and picking out your favorite and getting a bunch of things in that color because it made you happy, but in reality color means so much more. When creating an animationContinue reading “Module 3: Stop Motion Research & Pre-Production”

Module 1: Animated GIFs

Basic Motion: Animation is an incredibly versatile art medium. It can be used in all types of movies, television shows, social posts, info graphics and so much more. Unfortunately when someone says animation the first thing people think of is a complex kids movie or out of this world VFX animation. In reality anyone canContinue reading “Module 1: Animated GIFs”