Art.140 iMedia Design I
Transformation/Animation
Assignment
For this assignment, you will be
given a letter and the name of an animal. You will use the letter as a
starting
place and the animal as an ending place to create a series of compositions
that change the letter into the animal in five phases. Your changes from
step to step should be subtle but substantial, making the change appear
gradual from beginning to end.
To begin, go to the library to find an appropriate image of your animal to work from. You may choose to photocopy as a starting place for developing an illustration of your animal that will serve as your final image.
Your images will be developed for a 5" x 7" picture plane with adequate white space around the image. You will create 7 panels, total, with the letterform as your first panel and the animal as your last panel. Each panel will be mounted on white illustration board with 2" borders on all sides.
Preparing roughs (worth 1 DA grade)
Prepare five sets of thumbnail roughs of your progression from letter to animal. Each set of roughs should investigate a new visual idea, i.e., a separate and different strategy for achieving your progression or perhaps a different final drawing as in the examples below.
You may find that working backwards from
your final illustration is a good strategy for developing your progression.
Draw each progression across a sheet of paper to better see it develop in sequence. Use tracing paper to trace the outline of your image and transfer the outline as a guide for drawing the next image in your progression. You should spend more time on the rough of your final drawing than the other drawings in your progression. Generally, drawings should be rough rather than finished, but must communicate your intention clearly.
Digital Component (worth 2 DA grades)
(Counts as a Double Daily Assignment Grade)
To successfully complete this assignment, you must submit a CD titled on the desktop and on the outside of the disk with your name containing the following:
- Six Photoshop files of your animal transformations scanned at 144 dpi saved in your working folder.
- A Photoshop file with seven layers including letter through animal at 300 x 415 pixels at 72 dpi saved in your working folder.
- A completed animated gif of letter to animal (file size 100k or smaller). This file should be in your website/animation folder.
- A completed animated gif of letter to animal to letter (file size 178k or smaller). This file should be in your website/animation folder.
- An animation folder inside a website folder containing the two animated gifs and two html files--animation.html and animation1.html. (Your image should be placed in a table with a 200 pixel border to the left and a 60 pixel border at the top on a black background. Underneath your image in a separate cell, center your name in size 2 sans serif bold type and beneath that, letter to animal (or letter to animal to letter).
Assignments
For roughs: 150 pt. Palatino italic letterform
For final drawings: In a 5" x 7" 144 dpi RGB Photoshop file, create a
320 pt. Palatino italic letterform. Print out the letterform as a guide.
Save the file as animation.psd.