Studio Project 1: basic frame animations

INTRODUCTION

This project uses Photoshop to create 3 very basic frame animations that relate to the 12 Principles of Animation introduced in Module 1. Choose any 3 of these 12 Principles, and develop a short 3 second, 36 frame (12 FPS) animation using basic shapes, background + foreground colors and outlines / fill layers ONLY. These animations will be exported and submitted as Animated GIFs.

Important Requirements

• All animation can use basic shapes ONLY (squares, rectangles, circles, ovals, multi-sided polygons, etc), background / foreground colors (solid shapes only) and a combination of outlines and solid layers of color.

• Animation elements should not contain text, photographs, recorded video, or any digitally or hand-drawn faces, human-expressions, complex details, or similarity to any kind of “character” or real-life object (even in silhouette form).

For Example:

A triangle can “fly” like a plane, but it cannot look like a plane with wings, engine, tail, etc.

A circle can “bounce” like a football or basketball, but it cannot have details that make it “look” like a football or basketball.

All other Up-To-Date requirements are posted to the course Canvas Project Description

Getting Started

Working with Layers in Photoshop

Video Layers

Video Layer Techniques

Exporting Animated GIfs

Also, a few reminders of your options with this different video format:

1. Pop out of Canvas and watch in a new tab if any of the features aren't working

2. There are fullscreen and CC (Sub-title) options available in the right hand corner. For being YouTube auto-captions, these are pretty clear. I think they must have improved their algorithm. Please email me with any accessibility needs.

3. If you are feeling pressed for time, but don't want to miss anything, you can watch with audio in 1.5 speed by hitting that little gear icon.