The Moving Image
Duderstadt Center, room 3336, TTR 130-430pm
Instructor: Cullen Stephenson, cullenst@umich.eduu
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September 8
Intro to class syllabus and website, Interview your nieghbor and answer these questions, Video examples by PES, group project: Stop Motion bumper/advertisement for A&D
September 10
Complete group project by 3:30,
Intro to AfterEffects: interface, importing Jpeg sequences, frame rates, and basic audio.
If we have time, we'll introduce Project 1
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September 15
Build light tables and copy stands,
Finish stop motion animations
Discuss animation cycles, comp nesting, and registration
Introduce Project 1
September 17
Discuss storyboards, focal length, and lighting.
Watch "The Way Things Go" by Fischli and Weiss.
Discuss Principles of Animation.
Storyboards DUE by the end of class,
Studio
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September 22
Studio
September 24
First animation DUE,
AfterEffects Tutorial: Adjustment Layers, Desaturation, Comp Nesting, blend modes, Exporting.
Export your movie and pass it to the next person.
Storyboards Due for second animation.
Studio
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September 29
Introduce Project 2, video examples, Audio Tutorial: Filters, EQ, and Levels
Studio
October 1
Completed animation DUE by the end of class (all photography and drawing should be finished at the start of class), Discuss coordinating audio with stop motion frames.
Email Storyboards for project 2: due by Sunday, Oct 4, 8:00PM
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October 6
Class Discussion and individual meetings
AE Basics Tutorial
Studio
October 8
Watch the completed group animation,
AE tutorial: Corner Pinning
Studio
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October 13
AE tutorial: Color Correction, Masks
Studio
October 15
Studio
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October 20
Fall Break, NO CLASS
October 22
Animations DUE at the start of class
Critique
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October 27
Finish Critique,
Rotoscoping Tutorial and Exercise, discuss registration methods
Introduce Project 3, show videos, break into groups,
Studio
October 29
Present group proposal
Studio
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November 3
Individual Rotoscoping Exercise DUE
Studio
November 5
AE tutorial: Time Re-mapping, lip synch
Studio
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November 10
Individual Meetings
Studio
November 12
Studio
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November 17
Animations DUE at start of class
Critique
Discuss Project 5, video examples
AE tutorials: Puppet tool, Layered Animation, Displacement Maps, Offset, Registration, Motion Blur
November 19
AE tutorials: 3D Layers, Lighting, Camera Moves
Storyboard DUE by the end of class
Studio
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November 24
Animatic DUE
Studio
November 26
Thanksgiving, NO CLASS
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December 1
Studio
December 3
Studio
In Progress REVIEW: 25 seconds of animation DUE
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December 8
Studio
December 10
Final Critique
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