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SHAPE Assignments

Please pick 2 Choices minimum

Start with a 8.5x 11 page at 300 dpi

Three Images per page ( Treat these like Thumbnail Designs)

 

Environment Choices

 

1.Futuristic City

 

2. Top Secret Base

 

3. Snow Tundra Location

 

4. Launch Pad with Mechs

 

5.Waterway & Canyon

 

6. Large Space Port

 

7. Jungle with Lost Robot

 

8. Market Place

 

9. Desert Nomad City/ Outpost

 

10.Post Apocalyptic  City

 

11. Mech Outpost

 

12. Old Junkyard

 

13. Used Car Lot

 

CREATING CUSTOM SHAPES

Creating  custom shapes is a great and expedited way to work!

Assignment - Start creating worlds with shapes, please see samples below.

Entertianment Arts Certificate-Minor of Study

Required Art Courses 15 Units		Units
ART 243 F	Applied Perspective	3
ART 180 F	Perspective Drawing & Rendering	3
ART 186 F	Beginning Life Drawing	3
ART 181 F	Drawing from the Masters	3
	or
ART 195 F	Anatomical Drawing	3
ART 290 F	Portfolio Preparation and Artwork Presentation	3
Required Digital Art Courses 27 Units		Units
DART 104 F	Introduction to Maya 3D	3
DART 107 F	Digital Drawing	3
DART 108 F	Digital Drawing- Dynamic Sketching	3
DART 109 F	Environmental Sketching	3
DART 110 F	Fundamentals of Character Design	3
DART 135 F	Introduction to Digital Painting	3
DART 136 F	Intermediate Digital Painting	3
DART 115 F	Introduction to Prop Design	3
DART 111 F	Character Design	3
Restricted Electives Units 3		Units
ART 157 F	Sketching for Animators and Illustrators	3
	or
ART 123 F	Business Practices in Art	3
	or
ART 244 F	Illustration	3
	or
ART 215 F	Beginning Storyboarding and Narrative Composition	3
Total Units 45		45

Med Close-Up Shots- Ineraction with with other characters and their environments

Medium Close-up Story Shots

 from Noelle Triaureau, John Nevarez, and Armand Serrano

 

CLASS DEMOS

Med Close Up Demo In Class

 

 

 

 

 

Sergio Pablos- Staging for "KLAUS"

 

 

Peter De Seve - Illustration & Staging

 

 

 

 

Homework- forTuesday Oct 10th

1. Finish your tonal studies for Ass#2, Cemetery assignment, and print it out

2. Watch the Lecture/Demos on Perspective for the new Assignment

3. Gather Reference

4.Find Inspiration

5.Start Linear Thumbnails, and write down ideas!

Assignment #3 Pathway and Journey

One of the purposes of this course is to prepare you to tell stories using just tonal values of black and white. This a common practice in the entertainment industry as tone conveys mood, light, hierarchy, atmospheric perspective(depth) and enables the artist to stage stories quickly. Tone is also the foundation for color hence the old saying "Color gets all the credit, but value does all the work."

Tonal studies can also being produced quickly, limiting production times and enabling/supporting the critique and revision process inside film production.

Therefore, having the ability to work quickly and efficiently, telling stories and creating worlds in simple tonal variations is of extreme importance!!! In everything you do for the rest of your career..it is used in animation, film, storyboarding, children book illustration, and the backbone of every pre production, development, and production phase.

So take is seriously and make some outstanding work!!

Your assignment brief:

Create 1 or two characters, and show them on quest displaying their pathway or journey to a location with three key shots. If you have two characters they have to be opposite in size, i.e.-Gorilla & little boy, or elephant & fox.

Shot #1 Establishing shot, beginning their journey

Shot #2 Inside the middle of their journey(surrounded by elements)

Shot #3 Inside the location, encountering the problem/story plot, or leaving the location

STEPS

1. Identify your characters & story for option below

2. Lots of linear thumbnails

3. Pick favorite thumbnail

4.Enlarge thumbnail, clean up and add light in atmospheric perspective

5.Add light and set mood centered around supporting story and best composition.

You must have contrast!!

LOCATION

Ancient Mayan civilization

City in forest

DEMOS

Perspective Principles- 1 Point

Perspective Principles- 2 Point

Perspective Principles- 3 Point


 How to Start Ass#3 Project - Part 1

The Establishing Shot- Thumbnailing & Thinking

Reference for you:

The amazing Simon Rodgers

The amazing Armand Serrano