Project Guidelines/Creative Brief
Overview
2 Options to Choose From:
- Animated Digital Children’s Story. Inspire children using a selection from an award-winning children’s book. Your project should inspire children to overcome modern obstacles kids relate to, and come out better.
- INCREDIBLES 3 adventure movie trailer. Create an animated movie trailer for a sequel to INCREDIBLES featuring the new Superhero character you developed. Entertaining and informational with release date, new character, and new character’s superpower.
Rubric
Technical Specifications
- 11 seconds long, 30 fps
- 2D animations created in Animate CC and edited in Final Cut Pro X with sound, music, and voice talent
- Incorporate at least two of the following shots/angles:
- Wide/Establishing Shot
- Close-Up Shot
- Pan, use for emphasis, but sparingly
- Zoom, use for emphasis, but sparingly
- Extreme Close-Up Shot
- Closing Shot
- Develop a good naming scheme applied to assets/layers/scenes (Use Grab or CMD+SHFT+4 to demonstrate.)
- Character Profile
- Concept Art
- Story Structure Plan
- Storyboard
- Animatic
- Appropriate aspect ratio for 16:9 Full HD quality
- Include credits
- Metadata changed to show that you are the creator
Steps
See the Resources Page for files, sheets, how-to’s, etc. to complete the following steps. The Animation Workflow page also has some helpful resources.
- Decide whether to do the children’s story scene or the Incredibles sequel movie trailer. The children’s books you can use are in our classroom: The Day the Crayons Quit, When a Dragon Moves In, Giraffes Can’t Dance. Make sure your work is audience appropriate.
- Decide whether you will work individually or with a team. If you choose to work in a team, each person must develop their own scene, and each person is responsible for editing their own video version of the combined scenes.
- Complete a Character Profile and put in Behance project. (1 hr)
- Research and collect in Pinterest inspirations for the character design and props that will be used in the Animation. (1 hr)
- Complete sketches/concept art for character poses and facial expressions and put in Behance project. Post in Chat for peer feedback. (3 hr)
- Complete Emotioneering planning sheet and put in Behance project. (2 hr)
- Complete story structure plan and put in Behance project. (2 hr)
- Write script. (3 hr)
- Create Storyboard. Put script and storyboard on Behance. Submit script and storyboard to client (instructor) for approval. Make the suggested changes. (6 hr)
- Create Animatic and put on Behance. Provide a link in the Chat for peer feedback. You can research animatics at the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard and http://www.adeliestudios.com/explainer-video-storyboards-heck-animatic/ (6 hr)
- Choose copyright-free music, sounds. Record audio. (3 hr)
- Create animation in Animate CC. Make sure the Principles of Animation are evident in your work. (20 hr)
- Edit in Final Cut Pro X. Save in web and video formats. (6 hr)
- Complete a Self Evaluation using the Rubric. (1 hr)
- Publish to Behance. Write text to explain design decisions and process. (0.5 hr)
- Schedule a meeting with your client for payment. 🙂
- Submit work for a Quack Award.