Final Project: Emotional Animation (Shape Shifter). Multiple Deadlines

Emotional Animation

For this assignment, you will start with the six emotion compositions and create an animation which morphs between all six of them. Either use Adobe Flash, Adobe Animate or Adobe After Effects to create the project start-to-finish, or use a combination of Photoshop, Illustrator and analogue processes to create your animation. My recommendation is to use Flash or Animate. After Effects will give you the most options for motion effects, but is more difficult to learn. Illustrator and Photoshop will make the process more cumbersome and will require more steps. 

Goals

Create an interesting narrative LOOPING animation by carefully considering the transitions between your compositions and by paying close attention to both the positive and negative shapes in the six compositions.  Be sure to consider: 
Rhythm/Pacing/Timing and Proximity.  (which emotions blend into each other and which emotions are farthest from each other). 

Sound may be introduced into your animation to help communicate the different emotions. This is easy to do in Flash/Animate/AfterEffects.

Specifications

1 to 3 mins total run time. 
Looping.
File Type- Animated gif or .mov file. 

You MAY NOT shape tween or blend entire compositions into each other. You have two break the compositions down into smaller parts. You can group objects in your compositions to blend/tween together, just not the whole compositions. 

Assessment

You will be assessed on the quality of your animation- does everything look intentional? Good Transitions? Details? All shapes represented and in motion? 

Creativity- how you choose to animate and morph one composition to another

Communication- how well the animation reinforces the emotions you are trying to communicate through the compositions. 

Technical- Does the animation work? Can it play on your blog? Is it between 1-3 min.? Does it loop? No glitches?

Due Dates

Monday, Feb 6th- 
Animation from One Emotion Composition to another- exported as looping .gif or .mov
example- anger to joy. 
Minimum 10 second loop.
Uploaded to your website/blog.

If you have a computer with the software, please bring it to class. We will try and get access for anyone who does not have a computer for class work time. 

Wednesday, Feb 8th- 
Animation of two emotions- exported as looping .gif or .mov
example- anger to joy to contempt. 
Minimum 30 second loop.
Uploaded to your website/blog.

THE REST OF THE SCHEDULE IS BEING REWORKED DUE TO THE  STEEP LEARNING CURVE. MORE TIME WILL BE GIVEN BEFORE FINAL PROJECT IS DUE. 

Monday, Feb 14th- 
Final Project Due. 
Animation between all six emotions. 
Minimum 60 second loop. Can be up to 3 min. loop. 
Uploaded to your website/blog. 

Brief statement on Blog-
This should be three paragraphs or bullet point lists describing the process- 
Paragraph/list one- 
what you learned technically with the software
Paragraph/list two-
 what you learned regarding use of the elements and principles of design in motion. 
Paragraph/list three- 
how the decisions you made with your animation worked toward communicating the emotions of your compositions. Think about type of movement (smooth or choppy), types of interactions between the individual elements in the compositions, proximity of one composition to the next (similarity or contrast, etc) and sound.