Homework

1. Next week we begin the final presentations, we start at 6:45 sharp.
2. If I have not seen your sketchbooks bring them to class on Monday
3. I have added a tab to the blog with a talk by Ben Adams about working at Cartoon Network as a character designer, if you have some time give it a look.

12/2/19 Homework

For next class

165 Students:

1. Bring your sketchbook to class so that I can review it with you for your grade.

2. Go to the tab at the top of the blog called "Walk Cycle Background" and follow the directions for Wednesday. 

No class tonight

Remember no class tonight because the field trip last Sunday replaced our class tonight have a great holiday

Homework/Klaus

Hi,
here is the link to the making of, please look at so that we can talk about it in class on Wednesday!



https://beforesandafters.com/2019/11/14/heres-what-made-the-2d-animation-in-klaus-look-3d/


Homework
165 students, please read carefully, one of the three options below will pertain to you:

1. If you have completed penciling your character page and your walk cycle and tested them both, than you can ink the drawings with black outlines.
2. If you have completed penciling your character page but not the pencil version of your walk cycle, please finish penciling your walk cycle but do not ink it until you have tested it in class next Wednesday. You can ink your completed character page.
3. If you have not completed penciling your character page or your walk cycle, please do so and bring the un-inked drawings to class on Wednesday so that we can test them in Adobe Animate. 

166 Students: 
Continue working on your bible projects.

11/13 Homework

165:
1. If you need to finish drawing your character page please do so for Monday.
2. Go to the "Walk, Blink, Pause" tab and review the information on the walk cycle. If you have the time you can begin working on the walk cycle. However, we will be working on the walk cycle in class on Monday, so at the very minimum its important that you work do the reading for the project.

166:
1. You should be working on your final project.

Have a great weekend!

Nov. 6 Homework

165:
1. Go to the tab on "Character Design" and follow the instructions for class next Wednesday. If you want to take a photo of your character design and email it to me, my email is aking@dvc.edu I will send you some feedback.
2. Go to the tab labeled "Character Page" and review for class.

166:
Finish your drawings.... you should be working on your final animatic.

Everyone, no class Monday Nov. 11

See you at Monster Draw this Friday

11/4 Homework

165 students: 
1. Go to the Anime tab at the top of the blog and review the information for Wednesday. In class we will try some of the different Anime styles.
2. On Wednesday I will collect your Disco & UPA drawings

166 Students: 
On Wednesday begin working on your final animatic.

10/30 Homework

165:
1. Follow up on the reading assigned for the Expressive Style drawings we did in class, the information is on the tab up above.
2. For homework, draw your self as a Disco Dude or Diva, this will take a little research on your part to find the most outrageous examples or the Disco era. The information is on the tab above. 

166:
For Monday at the end of class your goal is to build the basic frame work for your final project as described in class. This Means your backgrounds should be done.

10/28 Homework

165:
1. Great job Drawing your self as Rubber Hose characters.
2. For homework, go to the tab above and draw yourself as a Charles Schulz style character.

Field Trip

Cost Update 

The price for entry is 6 bucks, 

it has been reduced.

10/21 Homework

165:
Continue working on your Inktober/Drawlloween drawings.

166:
Next class we want to see the rest of the your story board animatics

10/16 Homework

165 Students: 
Continue working on Inktober/Drawlloween

166 Students:
1. On Monday at the end of class please turn in your thumbnail storyboard animatic.
2. Bring your watercolor pencils if you have them, we will talk about backgrounds.

10/14 Homework

165 Students:
1. Continue working on your Inktober/Drawlloween drawings
2. Review the storyboard tab for Wednesday

166 Students:
We will look at your rough thumbnail animatics at the end of class on Wednesday.

A great sketchbook is always worth a look

10/9 Homework

Homework
165:
1. Ink the backgrounds for your sack animation. On Monday we will color them.
2. Continue working on your Drawlloween/Inktober

166: 
On Monday we will review your character pages and character spins.

10/7 Homework

165:
1. Ink your sack drawings, on Wednesday you will color them in illustrator and then create your final color, sack, character spin.
2. Continue working on your Drawlloween/Inktober drawings

166:
1. Firm due date for principal character spins in pencil, Wednesday Oct.9th
2. Firm due date for supporting cast line up page Monday Oct. 14th

10/2/19 Homework

165:
1. Research ideas for the sack drop project for Monday, be ready to talk about some ideas you may have for your background. Go to the perspective tab on the blog for more information and remember you do not need to draw it just think about the potential for story telling by having an interesting environment for the action to happen.

2. Tell your friends about Monster Draw.

3. Continue working on your Drawlloween/Inktober drawings

166:
1. Continue working on your character pages and the character spins
2. Go to the blog and review Storyboarding tab for Monday.

9/30 Homework

Homework

165: Work on Drawlloween drawings.

166: Work on your character pages.

9/25 Homework

Homework
165: 
1. Ink all of the Drawlloween drawings you have so far.
2. Go to the Tab at the top of the blog labeled "Inking" Review the information and watch the short inking demonstration.
3. Read pages 106-115 on "Mastering the art of construction" in "The Silver Way textbook.

166:
1. Work on your character pages or cast line up.
2. Read Read pages 106-115 on "Mastering the art of construction" in "The Silver Way textbook.

9/23 Homework and Monster Draw

Homework:

165: In your sketchbook, draw one Drawlloween prompt.

166: 

1. Work on the character designs for your Bible project.

2. On Wednesday the third Walk, Fly, Swim animatic is due at the end of class.

9/18 Homework

Homework
165:
1. In your sketchbook on separate pages work on 4 different Drawlloween drawing prompts. Create rough sketches, if you like them, go ahead and ink them.
2. Have fun

166:
For Monday, pick two possible trailers for the Story Bible Project

9/16 Homework

165 Students: 
Go to the Leaf Drop tab at the top of the blog and follow the directions on steps 1 & 2 for Wednesday, we will do steps 3-5 in class.

166 Students:
1. On Wednesday, your second animation from the Walk, Fly, Swim project is due at the end of class. 
2. On Wednesday, we will talk about "The Big" project.

9/11 Homework

Great job on the ball bouncing!

If you want to work on them a little more we will have some time on Monday

Drawing Homework

Be ready to show me 2 rough concept sketches for Drawlloween. The drawings must be in your sketchbook, red or blue pencil, no graphite full page.

Video Homework

Be ready to talk about the video below on Monday, its only nine minutes

9/9 Homework

Great job tonight everyone, 

loved your zombies.

Check Instagram!!!

Homework:

165

1. Go to the Simpsons tab and follow the homework drawing directions, we will look at them on Wednesday.

2. Go to the Ball Bounce tab and review the information for Wednesdays class.

166

1. We will look at your first animatic on Wednesday.

Homework 9/4/19

Great night tonight

1. Check the class Instagram to see your artwork.
2. In class we worked on drawing hands, if you did not finish, make sure you have drawn and inked 8 different hands in your sketchbook (See tab above)
3. Homework: Go to the Zombie tab at the top of the blog and follow the instructions, we will look at the work on Monday.
4. On Monday we will be scanning and coloring your homework in Illustrator.
5. Time permitting we will begin working in Adobe Animate on Monday.
6. Make sure to check out the Drawlloween tab at the top of the blog and start thinking about Drawlloween.

Have a great weekend!

The image below is another version of myself as a zombie!

Great Job tonight everyone

GREAT JOB TONIGHT!

Just to let you know we have an instagram page. I do add your artwork from class to it. Check it out because I have already posted some.

Homework

165 Students: 
A. Review the "Human Head 1" tab at the top of the blog.
B. Go to the "Caricature 1" tab at the top of the blog and scroll down to the bottom and you will find the homework instructions.

166 Students: 
A. Work on your character designs for the Walk Fly Swim project.
B. Go to the "Walk Fly Swim" tab at the top of the blog for more information. 

Oh! if you have not seen this clip do yourself a favor and check it out.

Here is some background on it.

Welcome

Welcome

Godzilla

Homework

For homework draw yourself as a Simpsons character. Go to the Simpsons tab for more information.
We will look at them tomorrow.

Godzilla Project

Go to the Godzilla Tab at 

the top of the blog

12 principals of animation

For the final please review the 12 Principles of Animation

https://the12principles.tumblr.com/

We will talk about them on Wednesday

July 18, Homework

165
Go to the 99 Year old tab and follow the directions, we will look at the drawings on Monday.

166
Work on your story bible.

July 17, Homework

Homework

165:
1. If you have not done so, please create a studio logo card, see tab above.
2. Make sure you create the pause pose, see the "Walk, Blink, Pause" tab above
3. If you want to try something really different... try creating a squash and stretch head for your animation. It goes between the point when you stop to look at the object in front of you and before you turn your head. Check out the "Squash and Stretch" tab.

166:
Continue working on your bible project

July 16, Homework

Everyone,
Here is a link to the page with Copyright information if you would like to review the videos.

https://artdm117.blogspot.com/p/copy.html

165:
1. If you have not done so, please create a studio logo card, see tab above.
2. Make sure you create the pause pose, see the "Walk, Blink, Pause" tab above

166:
Continue working on your bible project

July 15, Homework

165:
For homework, design a thing that your character will jump over. It could be a person or a thing. 

166:
Work on your Bible's, start putting together your information.

7/15 Today in class

165:
1. Character design project
2. Show me the jump cycle homework drawings. 
3. Once I give you the ok, you can scan and create a pencil jump test. 
4. If the pencil test works you may begin detailing your jump drawings and ink.
5. Scan and color your final jump drawings.

166:
1. I will check in with you on your projects.

July 11 Today in class

165:
For homework, you needed to go to the "Walk Cycle" tab and follow the directions as you draw yourself in the four walk cycle poses. before you scan the drawings, please show me so that we can check for accuracy. 
2. Show your "Walk Cycle Background" ideas, we will pick the best one.
166:
Continue your Animatic project.

July 10, Homework

165:
1. Go to the "Walk Cycle" tab and follow the directions as you draw yourself in the four walk cycle poses.
2. Go to the "Walk Cycle Background" tab and in your sketch book, in pencil, sketch out 3 possible background for your character. each should be 1" high by 3" wide.

166:
In your sketchbook, on two separate pages, loosely sketch out a different background from your project on each page. Experiment with loose color washes on each with your watercolor pencils.

Today in class

165: 

1. Create a test character spin of your pencil character page.

2. If the spin looks good you can ink and color your character page.

3. Review the “walk cycle” tab at the top of the blog.

166:

1. Today we will look at your animatics with the backgrounds as works in progress.

2. You will have homework to do with watercolor pencils.

July 9 homework

165 finish pencil version of character page

July 8, homework

165 students: Go to the "character design" tab and work through the process of character design, for homework you need to come up with the 2 to 3 pages of rough character sketches. we will look at them in class tomorrow. 
Have fun!

July 3, Homework

165:
1. Go to the UPA tab and for homework draw your self as a UPA style character.
2. Have a great weekend

166:
1. Over the weekend, work on your Thumbnail panels.
2. Monday at the end of class, be ready to review a draft of your storyboard animatic.

June 27, Homework

165:
1. Complete the perspective handouts in pencil only.
2. In your sketchbook work on creating 3 rough drafts of possible backgrounds that use perspective for the sack drop project. Look at the perspective tab and the sack drop tab for more information.

166:
1. Finish your character pages.
2. If you have completed the character pages you can begin working on your backgrounds

June 26, Homework

165:
1. Go to the "Disco" tab and follow the directions
2. Tomorrow we look at the Disco and Simpsons drawings
3. We will look at the leaf drop
4. Tomorrow we will begin our new animation

166:
1. Tomorrow lets look at your character spins in progress.

June 25, Homework

165:
1. Read pg. 106-125, on Body Construction, The Silver Way textbook
2. Draw yourself as a Simpsons Character, go to the Simpsons tab and follow the directions.

166:
1. Read pg. 106-125, on Body Construction, The Silver Way textbook
2. Create a character page for each of your principle characters. Final pencil drafts are due at end of class on Wednesday. 

June 24 Homework

Great Job Today

165:

1. Tomorrow we will finish the leaf drop project.

2. For homework, go to the Charles Schulz tab and follow the directions.

166:

1. Pick your movie for the Bible project

2. Work on rough concept sketches for the characters we will look at them on Tuesday.

Thursday June 20, homework

165 Students:
1. Great Job working in Illustrator today.
2. For homework, go to the "Rubber Hose" tab and follow the directions as you draw your self as a rubber hose character.
3. For homework, review the information on the "leaf drop" tab and sketch some rough designs for the leaf drop project. I will review you tree concept drawings on Monday.

166 Students:
1. Your animal animatics are looking good.
2. For homework, on one page in yours sketchbook, draw one of the poses from each of the 3 animatics in a neat row. 
3. Use a combination of your watercolor pencils, ink pens and pencils to color in your characters as shown in class.

Tuesday June 18

Hi Everyone, great job on your 

cartoon portraits and caricatures.

165 Students:

1. Please bring your black markers to class tomorrow.

2. If you need help remembering how to draw the cartoon portrait or caricature note that I have two tabs at the top of the Blog, "Human Head 1" and "Caricature Part 1". Each has information to help you complete the project.

166 Students:

1. Tomorrow at the end of class, I would like to see two of your animations in rough form. These do not need to be inked. Any two of the three animals are fine, I do not have a preference.

2. On Thursday bring your watercolor pencils and sketchbook I will be demonstrating how to use them.

First Day

165 students:
1. Go to Zombie tab and follow the directions for the homework drawing.
2. Tomorrow bring in your sketchbook and the Red or Blue pencil, if you didn't get a chance to pick up the pencil, I can help you with that in class.

166 Students
1. Decide on the three animals you would like to animate.
2. Go to the Walk, Fly, Swim tab at the top of the blog for ideas. We will talk more in the morning.

Welcome to Summer 2019

House Keeping

House Keeping
7th   Continue Jump Cycle, Talk about Kevin Smith

9th   Continue Jump Cycle, Sign up for presentation time slot

14th How to add sound, Review for quiz

16th Last night to turn in old projects

21st Presentations: 5 min. report and turn in walk jump Mov.file

23rd Presentations: 5 min. report and turn in walk jump Mov. file. 
Quiz: Based on topics covered in class, 24 questions, bring red pencil and eraser, no scantron

Thursday May 2 Kevin Smith Talk in the PAC building

Tonight

Work on the jump cycle

1. Create a pencil test first.

2. Show me the test.

3. If it looks good you can ink 

    and color it.

Homework

165 Students:
Please go to the "Walk Cycle" tab. 
At the bottom of the page it gives you instructions on how to properly stop your character sequentially during a walk. for homework please follow the instructions. We will look at them on Thursday.  

*Also, have a look at the tab labled "Jump", and think about the one you would like to try, you do not need to draw anything yet, just think about it. 

Homework

165:
Please go to the "Walk Cycle Background" Tab and follow the directions for Tuesday.

The video below is another Patrick Smith animation you will like.

Have a great weekend!

Homework

Homework

165
Go to the Walk cycle tab and follow the directions, you want to draw your character in the 4 poses of the walk cycle: Contact, Down, Pass, Up in pencil only.

166
On Tuesday we will talk about the next step for your big project.

Tonight 4/9

165 Students: 
For the next project you will design a character that we will use for the rest of the semester. I have set up 2 tabs, please go to the tabs and follow the directions as shown in class.
1. Character design
2. Character page

The pencil only character page and pencil only character spin is due at the end of class on Thursday April 11.

166 Students:
Please show your Storyboard/Thumbnail animatic before you leave tonight.

100 Heads

165 Students: Go to the 100 Head tab and follow the directions. Most of you made a great start on the the project in class tonight... Have fun!

Anime

165 students
1. For homework please ink the anime drawings you worked on in class, we will look at them on Thursday.
2. Next class I have a surprise  so don't be late.
3. We will look at the final sack projects on Thursday.

166 Students
Next class bring your watercolor paper and your pencils we will sit down together and draw.

The sacks are done

Wow I'm so impressed with how your UPA drawings are turning out.

Good Job folks..

Homework

165

1. Come to Monster Draw

2. Use the weekend to make sure the best versions of the homework drawing projects are in your sketchbooks.

3. Bring your sketchbooks to class on Tuesday, I will be giving them a Mid. term once over, looking for your homework drawings.

166

1. Watercolor pencils, watercolor paper and a water brush pen. Bring them if you have them.

2. I 'm bringing my supplies and will demonstrate tools and techniques.

UPA Time

165 Students:
For homework go to the "UPA" tab and read the directions on how to create a UPA character.  For Thursday I would like you to try 3 variations of yourself in that style. Keep the drawings in pencil, do not ink so that we can talk about your designs.

The Sacks keep falling

Great job on your sack projects, on Tuesday we will finish them up.

Homework

Both 165 & 166, check out the animation podcasts listed on the "Animation Podcast" tab. I guarantee

you will find something interesting to listen to. 

165

1. Go to the "Draw a Leprechaun" tab and follow the directions for this weekends homework drawing project

2. From the Richard Williams text book, read pages 61-63 on the 3 ways to animate, be ready to talk about this in class.

166

1. Go to the "Storyboarding" Tab at the top of the blog and have a look at the information regarding storyboarding, we will talk about it in class on Tuesday. 

2. Go to the DVC book store and pick up the class textbook.

Its here 166 Students!

The DVC bookstore has it for 26 bucks!
Pick yours up soon!

The sacks are falling

The sacks are falling

165 students: For homework, go to the "Drawing 5 finger hands" tab and follow the directions for Thursday. We will look at them at the beginning of class.

Homework

165 Students
1. If you have not completed the background drawing for the sac project, please do so and have it inked the black marker by class on Monday. 
(You are a little behind)  
2. Regular homework, In your sketchbook, in red or blue pencil, use your ruler to create your sack character. Remember to show 5 poses all in a row, exactly in this order.

Front, 3/4 Front, Profile, 3/4 Back, Back

3. Ink with your Black marker and bring this to class on Tuesday.
4. In class you will bring your drawings into illustrator and color.





5. For those of you that need help with hands I have put of a tab called "Drawing 5 Finger Hands" go and give it a try, I will talk more about it in the weeks to come.

166 Students
At the start of next class we will look at your character spins first.

It was a lovely day for perspective

Homework
165
1. Go to the tab labeled "Perspective" and follow the instructions we will look at your designs next class.
2. Remember... Monster Draw is March 22, invite a friend.

166
Next class we will look at your character pages and character spins. The spins should be in pencil, just show the test spins.

Just for fun here are two silly spins

Next project

So we are on to our next project...

165:

1. If you need a little more time to work on your leaf drop, you are welcome to stop by on Saturday from 9-3 or come early to class, I'm here at 6:30.

2. Over the weekend have a look at the tab "Inking"

it gives examples of inking techniques.

3. Over the weekend have a look at the tab "Sack Drop." Think about the type of sack and the environment that the sack animation will happen in.

On Tuesday we will work on drawing the sack character page in class.

4. The most important and fun thing to do over the weekend is to go to the tab "Expressive Style" and follow the directions, we will look at the drawings on Tuesday. Have fun!

166:

At this time you should be working on your character pages. At the end of next class please show your rough character spins. They do not need to be inked yet.

The Leaf project is almost done!

165 Students
Go to the tab labeled Disco and follow the directions, Have fun!

166 Students
Continue working on your character pages.

Monster Draw Time

The leaves are falling

The leaves are falling... 

Great Job everyone!

165
1. For homework, go to the tab "Studio Card" and follow the directions, we will look at your drawings on Tuesday.
2. Remember to mark your calendar for March 22 at 6 pm for Monster Draw, more details coming next week.
3. On Tuesday we will continue working on the leaf drop.

166
Go to the tab "Character Page" and follow the directions, you want to start designing the characters that will be in your production. On Tuesday we will look at your designs.

Have a great weekend!

Getting ready for the Leaf Drop

Nice job tonight everyone

165
1. On Thursday we will begin animating the Leaf Drop.
2. We will also look at your homework drawings.
3. For your drawing project, go to the tab "99 years old" and have fun!

166
1.If you have not picked a topic yet for your big project, please be ready to pick one on Thursday.
2. On Tuesday of next week the 3rd and final walk, fly & swim animation should be turned in.
3. On Thursday we will talk about character design. 

Bouncing balls and Illustrator

Bouncing Balls and Illustrator... What a night!

165:
1. Most of you completed the drawing and scanning of your trees for the next project which is great! 
2. Next week we will continue to design and draw the other elements needed for our next animation, the leaf drop.
3. For homework, please go to the tab labeled "Charles Schultz" and follow the directions, I look forward to seeing your drawings on Tuesday.

166:
1. It was good to see your first animations tonight. 
2. Over the weekend I would like you go to the tab marked "Pitch Bible" and review the contents.
3. You will need to pick a movie trailer to base your project on. On the right hand side of the blog there are links to various sites, look for "Internet Archive". On the archive you can find hundreds of trailers for movies that are public domain. The "Internet Archive" is a free online source for movies, television, music that are in the Public Domain. This means they can be re-used for projects like this.
4. If you cannot find a trailer you like on "Internet Archive" site,  go ahead and look through YouTube and see if you find something that was made before 1970. It's best to have two or three possible movies that we can talk about next week. I will work with you to pick the one that is the best for you.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Great Night for the Ball Bounce

165
1. Go to the tab at the top of the blog labeled "leaf drop"
2. Read through the entire project and watch the video.
3. For Thursday's homework all you need to do is design an old warped tree.
4. Keep the tree design simple, the face of the tree will be drawn separately and added in Adobe Animate.
5. On Thursday you will have time to complete your ball bounce and we will begin using illustrator.

166
1. On Thursday we will look at the walk fly swim innovations you turned in.
2. On Thursday we will also start talking about the big project.

Wow... what a night!

Rubber Hose and Frankenstein

what a combo!

The drawings were looking really good tonight!

Homework

165:

1. Go to the tab marked Simpsons, and follow the directions for the drawing homework. If you want to style your drawing after Simpsons, Futurama or Enchanted you may do so.

2. Go to the tab marked Ball bounce, please read and review the videos for Tuesdays class.

166:

1. Tuesday your first animatic is due so work on your frame drawings over the weekend.

2. We will begin talking about a big project next week.

Great Drawing Tonight

Great job on your Zombies Tonight

Homework:
165:
1. Go to the Tab labeled Rubber Hose and follow the directions. The project is due at the beginning of next class.
2. Next class we will spend the majority of class working in Adobe Animate.
3. If you have not watched the video on caricature please do so before next class.
166:
1. Great job on your character designs. 
2. As you work on your 3 animations keep in mind that they do not need to be in color.
3. The animations can be done as digital animatics, they do not need to be fully hand drawn. The only hand drawn part you need to have are the concept drawings.
4. You may work on the animations in any order.
5. The fist one is due at the end of class on 2/12/19

Great first night of drawing

165 Students:
In your sketchbook draw yourself as a Zombie, start with Red or Blue pencil, inking is optional. Draw must be big make it FULL PAGE!    Have Fun!

166 Students: 
On Tuesday be ready to show me your concept drawings for the 3 characters, keep them simple, you are being graded on simplicity in design, and the movement of the animation. On Tuesday the animation begins.