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Module 7: Advanced Animation
READING & WRITING Now that you have completed your work, it is time to consider entering it in a festival! Before you rush to enter, there are a few key things to keep in mind. In Liz Blazer’s Animated Storytelling, she breaks down all the steps you should take to enter your work into festivals.
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Module 6: Interface Motion
READING & WRITING You’ve planned and you’ve planned and you’ve planned. So now what? Now it’s time to animate! But don’t get too excited. Just because you have planned thoroughly, does not mean that everything will go the way you want. In Liz Blazer’s Animated Storytelling, she emphasizes that all hell can break loose in
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Module 5: Motion for Promotion
READING & WRITING Before you start to animate, you need to consider whether the technique you are using is the right one. In any kind of creative work, it’s easy to feel tied to what you know, but that might not be what is best for your project. In Liz Blazer’s Animated Storytelling, she recommends
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Module 4: Production and Post (Stop Motion II)
Reading & Writing I have been telling stories through video for a long time. From my former life as a news producer to my current one at a private school, I have always felt strongly that video is one of the most powerful storytelling tools. One of the first steps that I take when I
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Module 3: Pre-Production in Action (Stop Motion)
READING & WRITING Color can transform anything. Think about it — if you paint a room in your house it can completely change how that space feels and how you feel in it. What about in marketing? If a company uses green in its logo, it might make you feel safe but if they use
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Module 2: Animating With After Effects
READING & WRITING I had no idea how similar animation is to video production. That might sound silly, but the planning process is almost identical. Storytelling is an art and developing a good, compelling, narrative – that makes sense to an audience – takes a lot of work. In this week’s readings, in ICM 504,