Animation Design - Summer 2017

Hello Students! Welcome to our class blog! Here I will be posting weekly information about the course, inspiration videos, helpful tutorials and, of course, your work!

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EAGER by Allison Schulnik

Turn up the volume, turn off the lights and make full screen. Allow a few minutes for film to load/buffer first before viewing so it won't play choppy. Eager…

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Homework - Due 8/10

- Initial storyboards for final project. 

- Character sketches. 

*Bring tracing paper for life drawing 

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Making Phantom Limb – Alex Grigg – Medium

Inside a Ghost Story

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Homework - Due 8/9

- Elaborate on your ideas for your final project. - Create at least two sketches per idea.

*If you feel very strongly about one specific idea, focus on that one. If you do so - I expect at least six sketches for that one idea and more planned out “narrative” (traditional/experimental/abstract)

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Homework - Due 8/8

- Make a Tumblr blog and follow the class blog

- Make a Vimeo account

- Three ideas for final project. 

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Here is the course outline.

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Here is a helpful video outlining the basic principles of animation.

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Ana Mouyis - Bio

Ana Mouyis is an Illustrator and Animator based in Brooklyn NY. She received a BFA in Illustration from Parsons the New School for Design and an MFA in Animation and Motion Arts from Pratt institute.
Since 2009 she has worked as freelance commercial arts specializing in illustration and animation, clients have included: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, EMI Records, Interscope Records and Novatis. In 2014 she co-founded the experimental animation collective Circle Line Projects. In addition to collaborative and client work, Mouyis directs and animates independent short films. The first of which, “Pussy!” - released in 2015, has gone on to appear in a number of film festivals and receive prestigious design and animation awards. This year, her newest film “Dahlia” – a four-minute paint-on-glass animated short, premiered in her hometown of Nicosia, Cyprus where it won the Best National Animation award and is set to screen at a number of film festivals worldwide in the coming months. You can see her work at www.anamouyis.com and the work she has done with Circle Line Projects at www.circlelineprojects.com.

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Here is an example of my work. I made this short film a couple years ago. Its called “Pussy!” and is about a cat who want to swim. Enjoy! :)