HUM 203: The World in Motion, Animation in Theory and Practice

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Module 2

Tweening

Tween - the interpolation of two keyframes of animation.

Photoshop is able to tween only 3 attributes of your GIF animation

Position
Opacity
Effects - (You will not be using this attribute for Assignment 2)

Stop motion

As you've seen in lecture, stop motion has a signature aesthetic that is in a class all its own. The quality of stop motion can be described as jittery, turbulent, and generally ever-shifting. In the second part of this assignment you are to analyze these qualities of stop motion and try to recreate them using your first assignment. You will do this by shifting objects frame by frame with the intent to mimic stop animation.

Important Notes

File size is important in this case. This means that you must limit yourself to how many animation frames you include. Test your file with the playback controls and internet browsers

Assignment 2 Notes

In this assignment you are going to use your current scene to incorporate the animation techniques shown in lab (Tweening and Stop Motion). You are to utilize those techniques as to emphasize the difference in aesthetic properties between the two. We want to clearly see where you used stop motion and where you used tweening.

Midterm Resources

Refrences

What is a storyboard?

Blank Storyboard 1 (Verical)

Blank Storyboard 2 (Horizontal)

Cinema, Comics, and Storyboarding

Storyboarding Guide

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