Push Days

 Rendering your animation in Maya will probably take 2 days.  AE render takes less time.

4/20,21,22, 33:  PUSH DAYS:  Lighting (and Texturing).
T 4/24:        DUE LIGHTING.
TH 4/26:     Last Class:  DUE TEXTURING.
                   Start Rendering in MAYA Right After Class... & Overnight.
F 4/27:        RENDERING in MAYA continues... & Overnight.
Sat 4/28:     RENDERING in After Effects.
Sun 4/29:    Fix AE Render and Render Again.
Mon 4/30:  DUE TO GLEN:  info to come from Glen: 
                   probably 8 am in Mac Lab to folder on Main Mac.

good luck.

Schedule this week

Week 8: Modeling  

T   3/6  Modeling continued 

            Review of remaining animatics     

DUE:    Finish of  Weecho Tutorial, including watching tutorials (if not done before)

Th 3/8  Modeling continued

DUE:   Storyboard remaining shots:  Intro?, Title,  Clear ending, Credits.  Any images on those pages?

           
Week 9: Spring Break

Talk Monday, March 5, 5:30, Highly Recommended

Please attend if you can the lecture by Berlin based artist Claudia Chaseling on Monday, March 5, 5:30pm, Wright Gallery, Langford Center A.  Claudia Chaseling is a painter working in large scale on canvas, walls/floors and objects, and in small scale on photos and in cartoon stories. Her central theme is landscape, how vast space and the dynamics of a place can be captured in interiors through color, without using parameters like horizon lines or central perspective, which could supply a quick orientation. Through cartoons, expressionistic and fictional elements her work expands into a psychological landscape. Claudia Chaseling is based in Berlin, Germany. She works and exhibits internationally in Europe, Australia and the US.  This counts as one of the three talks you need to attend this semester.

Modeling begins Tuesday; Animatic etc due Thursday

Week 7: Modeling begins
No Weecho this week.

T   28   Modeling begins: have list of objects (assets, set dressing, all but main character) & drawings 

Th  3/1 (After discussion in class Th 23, we decided to have Animatic etc due today):

DUE:   B&W Animatic.  (Bring B&W SB into Photoshop and then into After Effects. Line OK.) Timing discussed. 

                Values, Drama, Lighting discussed.  You can try out music any time in this process.
                The following support your pitch for your animatic.  Write these out.
DUE:   One sentence description of story.

DUE:   Motivation of character.

Schedule: Revised

Week 5: Second storyboard, color script, character design, Maya
T   14  DUE: Cinematic SB.   List of main moments of intensity in script, Intensity Chart, Color Script: post to blog

Th   16  Jay Davis talk on Character Design, Motion, and Principles of Character Animation; Maya with Weecho    

Week 6: Maya, model sheets, objects, lighting, clarity of story
T   21  Maya with Weecho 

DUE:    Character Model Sheet: front & side to same scale & action pose; explanatory notes added to drawing?

             Drawing or Photoshop

DUE:    List of objects in animation, and drawings of them.  Drawing or Photoshop
DUE:    Lighting References posted  after watching film on light

              Discuss with Weecho.
              In-Class Maya Tutorial begun:  bowl of fruit, table, floor, wall, window
 
Th 23     Maya with Weecho
              In-Class tutorial continued

Week 7: Modeling begins
No Weecho this week.

T   28   Modeling begins: have list of objects (assets, set dressing, all but main character) & drawings 

Th  3/1 (After discussion in class Th 23, we decided to have Animatic etc due today):

DUE:   B&W Animatic.  (Bring B&W SB into Photoshop and then into After Effects. Line OK.) Timing discussed. 

                Values, Drama, Lighting discussed.  You can try out music any time in this process.
                The following support your pitch for your animatic.  Write these out.
DUE:   One sentence description of story.

DUE:   Motivation of character.

              

Week 8: Modeling  

T   3/6  Modeling cont.        

DUE:    Finish of  Weecho Tutorial, including watching tutorials (if not done before)

Th 3/8  Modeling cont.

DUE:   Storyboard remaining shots:  Intro?, Title,  Clear ending, Credits.  Any images on those pages?

           
Week 9: Spring Break

Week 10: Modeling and Rigging 

T  3/19  Modeling and Rigging;   

DUE:     Animatic with complete SB with added intro, title, clear ending, credits

Th 3/21 Modeling and Rigging;  

DUE:     Animatic with music added.  Reconsider Timing!

Continuing:  Modeling, Rigging, Animation, Lighting, Texture, Color, Title, Credits, Rendering, Final Review

VIST Show W 5/2, Due to Glen M 4/30