Sunday, March 24, 2013

tiny inventions


hi class! here's a link to Max and Ru of Tiny Inventions; scroll down to see the way they organize their production schedule (it's very motivating to see how well they plan things out):

tiny inventions blog

remember, too, that they are coming to talk to us on Thursday, April 11th, at 1:00pm in Connelly Auditorium.

~ Chris

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

crit schedule for tuesday, march 19th

Hi Class,

Here's the crit schedule for our mid-semester crits on Tuesday, March 19th, 9:00am, rm.1421 -

09:00am - Omer Qayyum (senior crit)
09:20am - Kaitlin Till
09:40am - Eun Ock Kim
10:00am - Max Matiash
10:20am - Karima O'Neill
10:40am - Alexandra Varga
11:00am - Victoria Heckman
11:20am - Lemon Li
11:40am - Patrick Keenan

12:00pm - 01:00pm: LUNCH BREAK

01:00pm - Dave Morrison
01:20pm - Tracey La Guerre
01:40pm - Anthony Dandola
02:00pm - Erica Kukoski
02:20pm - Frank Lim

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thank you,

Chris

spring break & crits

Week 7: Spring Break on the horizon, and mid-semester crits just after!

Mid-semester crits represent the moment when keen outside eyes (professors and professionals) come in to our class to have a look at pieces that have full, rough animation and sound.

This is your chance to see your piece as a whole, timed out more precisely, and with the feeling of life that movement brings to what was previously just a series of storyboard stills set to a timeline. So catch up over the break and come into crits after having taken a deep breath and having stepped back from the animation grindstone to see what shape your vision is taking.

The best approach to a crit is to behave as an interested observer, listening to the comments made, noting them, and asking questions to find out why people make the comments they do, and then digesting that information. Find out whether your ideas are coming through, and listen to suggestions as to how make things clearer.

After this, it's your choice to decide what to do.

On the plate after this:
• clean up
• color
• compositing
• sound
• editing

Upward and onward!