Individual Animation Project #1

Due 7th session, March 4

Conceive, design, and produce a short animation on any topic and in any style you wish. The research topic we are focusing on in this half of the semester is Cognitivism. See the links for your course on Readings and Research Topics for help with this topic. You should be aware of that topic as you design and work on your animation, but your animation need not deal with Cognitivism directly.

There are no restrictions on the content or style of your animation. Your animation may be narrative or non-narrative, realistic or abstract. It may involve characters or no characters, recognizable objects or none. Anything is possible, as long as you are thoughtful, and as long as your animation is well designed and well executed.

Your animation will necessarily be very short because of our production scedule, Typical running times might be between 10 seconds and 30 seconds. However long it is, your animation must be fully finalized and complete by the due date.

The final format of your animation will depend on your final intended display. Some possibilities include: viewing on a monitor; projection onto a large screen; display on a hand-held device; part of an interactive display; part of a static image work. The final display must be considered as an integral part of your design from the beginning of your production process.

Note: At approximately the mid-point of this project, I will give you feedback on what I feel is your progress. This will not be a grade, but will give you a sense of what grade you might expect to receive if you continue working as you have been.

On the due date, bring to class all materials needed to display your finished work. Also post your animation to your blog for this course. If necessary, post it to Vimeo or a similar site and link to it from your blog. Also, hand in to me a DVD disk containing an uncompressed file of your finished animation, plus your working files. If necessary, hand in two DVDs.