DES 251
Digital Media Design
Schedule / Assignments
week1 |
Course Intro (Goals, policies, grades, syllabus) Assignment: Catch Me If You Can title sequence Saul Bass title sequence – The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) Make It Better by Clim AE Essential Training with Ian Robinson on Lynda.com 1-3
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week2 |
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Keyframes, layers, transformations- scale, position, orientation Madmen title sequence Keyframe animation examples - "Your face" by Bill Plympton & "Billys balloon" by Don Hertzfeld Assignment:
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week3 |
Gradients Project 1 review Mercedes-Benz Bas Child by Sehsucht http://vimeo.com/7522026 Flickermood 2.0 by Sebastian Lange The Hidden Cost of War by GOOD Project 1 due
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| week4 | Shape layers, Masks, Blend modes, Track mattes, Feathers AE Essential Training with Ian Robinson on Lynda.com -Part 4 Assignment: 15 sec motion graphics animating your name using type, masks, blend modes, feathers, shape and solid layer. Typography in focus
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week5 |
Animation, Graph Editor, Motion Paths, Parenting, Morphing AE Essential Training with Ian Robinson on Lynda.com -Part 5 Assignment: 15 sec name motion graphics - continued
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week6 |
Animation in AE Motion paths Easing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqGL1ZLk3n8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcryIdriSe4 Assignment:
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week7 |
Effects Part 1 Scribble, Stroke AE Essential Training with Ian Robinson on Lynda.com -Part 6 Assignment:
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week8 |
Effects Part 2 Type Animators AE Essential Training with Ian Robinson on Lynda.com -Part 10, Creating Type Animators Matrix title sequence Vertigo title sequence by Saul Bass Symphony Diagonale (1924) by Viking Eggeling Calculated Movements (1985) by Larry Cuba Assignment:
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week9 |
3D layers, cameras, lights Lab - Midterm project AE Essential Training with Ian Robinson on Lynda.com -Part 7,part 8 Assignment:
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week10 |
Midterm - Monday, March 16 Storyboard Assignment:
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week11 |
Spring Break Assignment:
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week12 |
Storyboard Review Assignment: Storybord revisions Title sequence sound theme / audio files collection
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week13 |
Sound design Markers, sound in AE Want to import audio markers in After Affects? by sparkica Editing and Animating to Sound with Adobe After Effects with Chris MeyerAssignment: Sound editing for AE
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| week14 | Export and Rendering AE Essential Training with Ian Robinson on Lynda.com Part 1 Understanding how to render - review Assignment:
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| week15 | Work in Progress Review Work on final project
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week16 |
Work on final project Final Presentations - April 29
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