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COURSE DOCUMENTS | FINAL PROJECT

** Your projects must be burned to CD and placed in the AD3540 Dropbox at the start of class **

FILES AND DOCUMENTS

1. Storyboard (PDF)
   1. The Storyboard explains the pacing of your complete 3-5 minute short and includes notes about the action, dialog (if any), camera direction and animation timing.
   2. Your storyboard will should convey some of the following information:
      1. What characters are in the frame, and how are they moving?
      2. What are the characters saying to each other, if anything or how are they interacting?
      3. How much time has passed between the last frame of the storyboard and the current one?
      4. Where the "camera" is in the scene? Close or far away? Is the camera moving?
   3. The storyboard should clearly illustrate three main stages of the story: Set-up, Conflict and Resolution.
   4. The storyboard should be fully developed with accurate numbering in Storyboard Pro and exported as PDF (3 panels horizontal).
2. Animatic (Quicktime / MOV)
   1. Your Storyboard Pro animatic should convey the accurate timing of your full 3-5 minute animation, with basic camera moves and object translations. If the panels of your animatic are set to the default 5sec, you will not receive credit.
   2. Export your storyboard as an Quicktime Movie (quarter size).
3. Animation Bible (Printed and assembled or PDF):
   1. This document consists of model sheets and color model guides for all characters, location and background drawings, lip sync guides, written description of the plot and individual characters. Consider a bible as an encyclopedia of characters, places, events, mechanisms, and themes related to your animation.
   2. Layout your animation bible in Illustrator, In-Design or Quark in a professional manner (spellchecked, proofread, etc.)
   3. Your Bible should include the following pages:
      1. Front Cover: Title, credits and contact info.
      2. Introduction: Brief introduction to the animated story
      3. One page for each character, including model sheet, construction sheet, color guide, and "biography" about each character. Plus size relationship chart.
      4. Location and/or background drawings
4. Lip-Syncing and Mouth Positions (FLA or Digital Pro and SWF)
   1. Using the mouth comp technique, create all 7 mouth positions for your own character.
   2. Record sound for your character or use the sample sound file distributed in class.
5. Animated Sequence (FLA or Digital Pro and SWF)
   1. This is the culmination project. This final animation should demonstrate the applied skills, principles, and techniques studied during this 15 week course.
   2. Your animated sequence should be a minimum of 10 seconds and should include one of the following:
      1. Physical Acting
         • Walk or Run
         • Punch or throw
         • Jump
         • Trip and fall
         • Bicycling, swimming or sports activity
      2. Psychological Acting
         • Take or double take- some sort of surprise reaction
         • Emotional facial expression with lip-sync dialog and arm movements
   3. The sequence should also include some use of camera movements, light, and color in order express the mood of the scene.

DELIVERY:

1. Be prepared to turn in all files within an organized folder structure. Folders containing loose, unmarked, or unfinished files will not be accepted.
2. Animations and supporting materials will be graded based on the concepts and techniques covered during the entire course.
3. Name your files with your name and the project title. Put all files in a folder with your first initial, last name. Each group should have the same files, file names, and folder structure. Drop the folder in the ad3540_DropBox > Final_Project on the ADGA server (10.10.110.16)
4. Create a backup on CD to turn in.

GRADING:

1. Grades for late projects will drop by half.
2. The Rubric that will be used to grade your project has been defined. Please read it before turning in your project