Class:MFA Illustration 2023/Week 7
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Contents
Last Week
- Review "tiny town" projects and your separation technique
- Photoshop animation techniques
- New assignment, tiny town animations
This Week
- Review animation projects and share tips.
- Additional tips and best practices for animation in Photoshop and Fresco.
- Next assignment, more animation.
Open Questions
Notes
Animation Example Links
- Animated illustration examples on pinboard
- https://pinboard.in/u:choppingblock/t:animated-gif/t:illustration
Animation Techniques Links
- How to Keyframe Like a Pro! (Animation process for any software)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-sF_1FgpJw
- Photoshop Animation Techniques by Alex Grigg
- https://www.alexgrigg.com/pages/photoshop-animation-techniques (video)
- Old but still valuable
- How To Create An Advanced Photoshop Animation
- https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/06/creating-advanced-animations-in-photoshop/
Video Notes
- Tiny Town animation project review PtA
- Tiny Town animation project review PtB
- Color calibration for screens overview
Assignment
- Your assignment this week is to find an animation that inspires you and create a new hand-drawn, colored, and composited animating illustration.
- This week, you can start your drawings on paper and scan them into Photoshop or work 100% digitally and draw in Photoshop, Fresco, Procreate, etc...
- You can use Fresco, Photoshop, or After Effects to animate your illustration.
- The focus of this assignment is ANIMATION; you should spend most of your effort on the quality/nuance of animation.
The Process
- Leverage the internet and/or the links above to find an animation or animation technique that inspires you.
- Save the link or a recording of the animation to hand-in and share with your project.
- Create a new illustration document In Photoshop, Fresco, Procreate, etc...
- Draw your composite parts digitally or use the scanning techniques from past lessons to create your parts.
- Using Adobe Fresco, Photoshop, or After Effects, you need to create a 15 second or longer animation that tells a story!
The Details
- You will be sharing your inspiration example when you present your project.
- Your illustration (and, therefore, animation) should be square.
- I suggest you make your parts within a document with a resolution no smaller than 2400 x 2400 pixels and then make a copy of your file and size down to a smaller size if your animation is long or your computer is struggling.
- Your animation should be 15 seconds or longer.
- Your animation can be in gif or .mp4 formats
Upload for class next week
- A link or recorded version of your inspiration animation.
- One LAYERED high-resolution Photoshop file of your new non-animating illustration. If you did not use Ps, please save it as a Ps file.
- Any additional source files, scans etc.. used for your animating masterpiece.
- Video or animated gif exported file.
- Google drive folder: svaMFAI_20231106-Inspired-by-Illustrated-Animation
