Media Art: Begining to Animate

In media arts class we are now ending the pre-production phase of our animation and beginning to animate using 3"x5" white index cards in pencil.  The short animation above is a great example of what we're looking for because it has mostly simple backgrounds and limited color but uses a good variation of techniques and motion and the animation is neat and smooth (incorporating the hand is the difficult part but goes beyond what were doing in class).

We are going to begin with a 5 card pencil test on index cards that I provide (look at the examples below) but to save time make sure your pencil test is part of your animation so we can use it in the final film

Media Art: Time to Animate

Today we begin our final hand drawn animation project and above is a short tutorial on the basics (and remember it is more basic then what we are doing).  This week each student should complete 10 frames per day drawn in pencil which will then be inked in marker and by Friday we will have our 50 page animated flipbook complete and ready for digitizing! Below is a great example of a finished example.