Class:MFA Illustration 2022/Week 8

Last Week

• Review animation projects, and share tips.
• Question: Best practices to print double-sided cards.
• The challenges and solutions for full-bleed digital illustrations.

This Week

• Jinjin Sun Fresco overview
• Adobe Capture demo
• Fresco assignment

Notes

Related resources from class this week:

• Adobe Fresco tutorials
• Tips for getting started in Adobe Fresco
• Beginners Adobe Fresco tricks that will surprise you
• Adobe Capture FAQ

Video Notes

• Jinjin Sun presents Adobe Fresco overview
• Additional Fresco stuff & assignment setup
• Adobe capture overview

Assignment

Part 1 is required

• Make one Fresco Drawing!
• The subject or topic is up to you. It would be best if you share/announce your topic during the review next week.
• NOTE: Your singular square illustration must contain at least 3 comic-style frames! Any orientation you like.
• Use the Fresco techniques introduced & reinforced in class to create one composited colored illustration.
• Try approaching this project as a multi-object composited scene, not a flat-colored composition.
• You will upload the layered Fresco psd.

Part 2 is optional

• Play with the motion and animation features in Fresco
• Upload an animating version to the same folder below.

Upload for class next week

• One LAYERED photoshop file (created with Fresco and optionally tweaked in Photoshop)
• Optional: Animating export of the illustration above
• Compositions should be between 4000px x 4000px and 6000px x 6000px
• #I have created a new Google Drive directory for this project: svaMFAI_20221114-Adobe-Fresco-illustration