Horse Trot Animation Layered

Activity  Start planning for your first assignment  'It Came From Beneath the Sea.' Working in your groups, come up with an idea for your film, and create sketches to start planning out your story. Oct 05  -  Oct 11 HOMEWORK - STORYBOARDS  Oct 12  -  Oct 18 WEEK 6 HOMEWORK - FILMING  Oct 19  -  Oct 25 WEEK 7 HOMEWORK - ROUGH CUT

There are three camera moves that maintain flat space because they do not create relative movement. They are the Pan, the Tilt, and the Zoom. Flat space has no illusion of depth.  Pan:  Panning means rotating the camera to the left or right on its vertical axis, while the camera stays stationary in space.    Tilt:  Tilting rotates the camera up or down on its horizontal axis.  while the camera stays stationary in space.  Zoom:  A Zoom is not a camera move. Zooming involves changing the  f ocal length of the lens* to make the subject appear closer or further away in the frame. A zoom is  magnification  instead of  movement . The key here is that with the zoom magnification, you are not changing the three-dimensional relationship of the surroundings to a character.  There are three camera moves that create relative movement and the illusion of depth. These moves are the dolly in/out, the track left/right, and the boo...

We have explored two feature-length films so far. Now we will change directions significantly and study short films. Animated shorts are unlike feature animation films in that they often give a filmmaker the opportunity to have a film made in many new, diverse, and experimental ways that utilize different styles and techniques. They also have strict time and length limitations, which play a key role in how stories are told. Frederich Bach's film  The Man Who Planted Trees  is a great example of the depth and range of what can actually be told within the technical limits of an animated short story. In this case we explore a film where the story of a shepherd who's sole quest to re forest a barren valley, is expressed in a beautiful painterly way.  The Man Who Planted Trees is an example of a character driven story involving a main character who is following his dream. Soar  and  Kiwi!  both involve a main character who is following their dream. This dream, c...