Amazing what a little creativity on the whiteboard can do. Our first year students worked in groups to brainstorm a story idea and then went about recreating the tale visually, capturing each moment with a digital camera. The 300+ frames were stitched together to create the final animated productions. The votes were close, but one emerged as the class favorite. Which one do you think it was?
Second year students in the Graphic Design and Communications Intro to Multimedia course recently completed an assignment where they used After Effects to incorporate movement and sound to introduce themselves. Students worked diligently using what basics they knew to incorporate some advanced techniques inspired by more popular television intros. All in all the results were impressive. Here are just a few.
Each year the freshmen students learn a tiny bit about stop motion animation through a collaborative project that focuses on Halloween. The groups of students have a little more than an hour to come up with an idea, then execute it with white board markers, taking a photo each time the action changes. Check out the videos at the links below.
The freshmen class cranked out a set of marker board stop-motion animations this year in the annual Halloween Challenge. It’s a tricky project – freshmen are divided randomly into four groups, those groups have about two hours to build a story and draw a minimum of 300 frames. Click the images below to view the videos.
Second year students in the Graphic Design and Communications program recently covered how to utilize Adobe Animate to execute HTML5, mobile-ready, browser-controlled animations. In the span of a few weeks students created animations that were to engage the user and link their original brands to a national cause/movement. Adobe Animate focuses on achieving mobile-friendly, efficient vector animation using javascript and HTML5’s canvas feature rather than rely on Flash’s vulnerable Flash Player.
Click on the images below to see a few examples.
Cori Flanagan masters fluid movement with her ‘Monster Munchies’ character.
Nicole Weaver pours on the ‘Sweet Piggy’ BBQ sauce.
The buzz is about local, organic freshness in this ad by Adam Long.
Daisy Tripp’s animation has us tripping on ‘Daisy’s Donuts’.