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CLASS 3

Assigned Writing: One paragraph response to assigned reading (emailed to instructor from artic email account)

Skills Session: Introduction to Basic Animation using Director and GifBuilder

Establishing keyframes to control motion and opacity.

Technical Objectives: Students will gain understanding of basic animation skills in Director: importing graphics (psd images on transparent background), drag/drop into score, paint program, animate to time, onion skinning palette, tweening properties such as blend, scale, etc. Students will see a basic demonstration of using the shareware GifBuilder if time permits.

Tutorial: Students will animate their ad spoofs. Click to download Tutorial 3.

CLICK FOR EXAMPLE of ad spoof animation.

For further practice: Director tutorial (http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/mmedia/directortutorial/basics8/basics.html)

Discussion and screening: Storybeat, Kenneth Hung, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

HOMEWORK:Assigned Reading: Inspect the "metaphor marketing" discussed by Harvard Business School's Jerry Zaltman: http://www.fastcompany.com/online/14/zaltman.html

Assigned Writing: One paragraph response to assigned reading (emailed to class from artic email account)

Studio Practice and Homework: Create an animation of your ad spoof.

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