9/26 Homework

165 Students:
1. If you did not finish the background for the sack project, you will have some time on Thursday.
2. On Thursday we will begin the sack project using the draw tablets. If you have one you may bring it to class. I have tablet that I can lone out during class.
3. Midterm Project, for this we will be follow the Drawlloween calendar. This exercise is meant to break you out of your normal drawing routine or help you create one...

http://drawlloween.blogspot.com/

4. Goal: Draw with red or blue pencil and ink with black liner, one drawing a day, for the month of October. 

5. All of the Black and White drawings will be due on November 9.

6. Each drawing should be full page in your sketchbook.

7. The drawings must follow the spirit of that days theme. (This may require you to do some research so that you understand the topic, if you need to ask about it, please do).

8. I recommend that you start working on the drawings ASAP, that is why I have given you the project a week early.  

166 Students:

On Thursday we will look at your story board animatics. 

Self Caricature

165 Students:
In your sketchbook, using your red pencil and the drawing techniques demonstrated in class, draw a caricature of yourself, four times on the same page. I will demonstrate inking techniques on Tuesday in class. Just in case you need some reminders from tonights class, check out the tabs at the top of the blog entitled "Caricature" & "Human Head" Have fun!

Ok, yes its strange, but after drawing myself in a fez I really needed to spin in an old TV set.

166 Students:
Go to the "Walk Fly Swim" tab at the top of the blog for drawing examples. 

Summer Animation

2017 James O'Keefe Comic contest winners

Presenting the 2017 James O'Keefe Comic contest winners

Thanks to Nick Sousanis for coming out and talking about his new book, Unflattening and Joe Field from Flying Color Comics for talking to our DVC students and encouraging them to keep being creative no matter what.

Select the link to see all the entries

http://jamesokeefeprize.blogspot.com/

3/16 Homework

165 Students:
In your sketchbook, draw yourself as a Disco Star or Roller Skating Disco Diva in any style you like, UPA, Rubber Hose, Anime.... Full body, use red pencil first, then ink, pay attention to line quality. Have fun!

Yep, the one below is me!

166 Students
Due dates Animation Bible project:
*Each is due at the end of class.

3/21 Character Pages and Character Spins 
        (Pencil Versions)
3/23 Thumbnail Animatic 
        (With timing, as demonstrated in class)
4/13 Backgrounds (Pencil Version)

3/14 Homework

Hi everyone, 
Divide the page into four quarters and draw yourself four times on the same sheet of paper. Experiment with caricature based on the the example provided in the handout. Use your blue or red pencil. No Graphite! Below is an example of a faces drawn as a caricatures. 
*Play with moving the eye line up and down
*(Note that the setup lines can still be seen).

*Note: The black and white drawing shows shading, you do not need to shade. *You will add your source photo before turning it in, I will talk about how to do it in class.

3/9/17 Homework

165 Students:
Looking forward to seeing you at Monster Draw tomorrow night!

*My students get extra credit for attending.

Weekend Homework:
In your sketchbook, full page, full body, using your red or blue pencil, draw yourself as an Anthropomorphic Anime style character. Try to create something that looks like you as an animal. Use two different pens and ink your drawings.

 Anthropomorphic characters 

have always been part 

of human mythology.

 Today they are still with us 

in popular culture

          Yep, the one below is me.                

2/28 Homework

165 Students:
1. In your sketchbook, full page, full body, using your red or blue pencil, draw yourself in 3 different variations as a UPA style Leprechaun character .
2. Pick one of the 3 and add ink using two different pens. Have fun, we will look at them in class on Thursday.
3. On Thursday at 9:15 during lab time, I will demonstrate how to color with shadows in Illustrator. (This is bonus information, you are not required to stay however it will add a lot to the look of your work).
4. Yes the images shown below are me.

166 Students:
Please review the page shown below as you begin working on your character page. On Thursday, we will review your draft character pages with only simple character shapes in place. Pencil Only

2/14 Homework

Happy Valentines Everyone

Use your red or blue pencil, do not draw on back to back pages, we will be inking these.

2/9 Homework

Homework
165 students:
1.  In your sketchbook, full page, using your red or blue pencil, draw yourself as a 40's era expressive Tex Avery/Basil Wolverton character, full body. Have fun, we will look at them in class on Thursday. 

(Inking your drawing is optional).

2. If you have not read the homework reading from the last class please do so before the next one.

3. On Thursday you will have time to finish the ball bounce project.

166 Students:

1. We will look at the second draft of your walk, fly, swim cycles.

2. Next week we will talk about the big project.

Basil Wolverton

Tex Avery

Mask

 Roger Rabbit

Ren and Stimpy

Misc.

2/2 Homework

Good job 165 on your first animations!

Homework

165 students:

1. Over the weekend, read the hand out posted below, entitled "Narrative Project". Think about the three different stories, on Tuesday, each of you will choose only one of them to storyboard in class using the simple thumbnail style figures I showed you.

2. In your sketchbook, full page, using your red or blue pencil, draw yourself at 99 years old, full body. You can add mechanical parts, be missing parts, be altered in some way, have fun, we will look at them in class on Tuesday. 

(Inking your drawing is optional).

Yep the old guy below is me!

 

166 Students:
On Tuesday your first rough animation will be due at the end of class. Keep it in pencil you can ink and color later if you want to.