Mei Xian

Click the above box to see Mei Xian's animation ...

Christopher sprite

Jericho Barrell Role

more animation loops

sprites

pai ka animation

Juan Text

Monday, December 12th

A month remains left in this class. Today you should be working on your sketchbooks and their requirements. If you have your notebook at home, there is plenty to do.

I am now interested in two things; Students making FINAL animation stills. The penciled ones are great and each students will be scanned and converted to a GIF. BUT NOW: I'd like students to work on "PERSONAL ANIMATION MOVEMENTS" in FULL COLORS!

Second ... Let's begin considering the mural as the ENVIORNMENT for ANIMATION STILLS! Today we'll be talking about INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE and reading once again from "How to draw the marvel way".

PRINCIPLES TO ANIMATION STILLS: TRACE, USE THE WINDOW or LIGHT BOX. Keep your proportions the same!

It is OK to draw with "CALVIN" proportions or human proportions. Just keep them the same.

Jericho jumping

Click on the man jumping over the car to watch it animate! Good work, Jericho!


Here is an animation of Nathan's character. Notice how it depends HOW you animate something that can change a story. By MERGING images, I make the illusion of floation with Nathan's anime character.

nathan jumper

Reminder image about style

STUDENT WORK

A lot of students are getting better at their figure drawings. Nathan's perportions lie between human and "Calvin" perportions. Notice how he enlarges his figure's heads. Nathan is understanding the importance of have a variety of "drawing" hands. His sketches are first very soft and graceful ... when he has sketched out a figure, THEN he goes to bold.

Kids, make sure you use appropriate language in your books. I can't read a lot of Chinese so let me know what your writing means. Also, in the above comic I had to edit some language.

ANIMATION AND PERSPECTIVE

TODAY YOU ALL HAVE TWO SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS. THE MURAL AND SKETCHBOOK PROJECTS WE ARE GOING TO PUT ON HOLD IN TODAY'S CLASS BECAUSE OUR ANIMATION DESPERATELY NEEDS OUR HELP - IT HAS BEEN NEGLECTED.

Observe the image above. The original drawings done for the animation did not have sonic actually moving. Each panel didn't show enough change. Today, tracing using tracing paper or the two lightboxes provided, I'd like you all to trace or draw the 10 figures above. However, draw them in your STYLE.

We have talked abvout personal style in this class before. Think abstractly about how you'd like to depict your figures. Do you want your lines bold, rigid and straight? Or delicate, graveful and curvey? Do you use tons of lines and/or scribbles? The idea for our animation is to have the figure be the SAME figuratively, but change drastically in style.

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Next Assignment: Fill in the text for this series of perspective drawings. When finished, practice doing perspective drawings in your notebooks and/or storybooks using this page as an example.

Product design

Earlier in the year, I posted a lesson plan about the connection between ICONIC art and propaganda. In today's class, I'd like students to develop LOGOS for specific PRODUCTS. Think like an entrepreneur in this class - what is an anime related PRODUCT that people could use? What would that product's LABEL look like?

Unless you are working on a long term story for this semester class zine, I'd like you to develop a logo that is appealing. How can you make a logo appealing? Why do the above logos seem recognizable?

WHAT DOES THIS MAP OF THE USA AND THIS PAINTING OF BATMAN HAVE IN COMMON?

The answer is color separation. Colors appear brighter with more volume when they are next to opposite colors on the color wheel. Warm colors make cool colors look cooler and vice versa.

If you'd like to play with color, first draw LIGHTLY with a pencil and abstractly plan out your composition. Make sure the composition shows depth, motion, iconic expressions and correct human portions; think Leonardo's golden triangle man... we showed earlier in class. Then fill in the sketches with black or dark magic marker.

THEN: choose 5 different colors. Make sure when you are coloring in the black magic marker, the same color is NEVER touching something that is the same color ... like on the map of the USA!

Use this philosophy on our SCALED DOWN MURAL THAT we will turn into a time line book.

Requirements for Booklets

Juan's iconic art shifts perspective and increases and decreases in visual tone. It is easy to read and he uses LOTS of space for his text. It is important that your words are drawing straight and large. Try using all capital letters when making anime.





Xin Wu is creating phenomenal iconic perspective drawings with well designed text. Notice how she draws the word "TEST". By using the power of abstraction, Xin has given the text a "queesy" look ... thus expressing nervousness about the subject of tests.

Xin accomplishes depicting interiors very minimally. This is a very clean, crisp and well constructed Edwards Middle School Anime comic.

For the Holiday season, in your booklets, lets put together a little magazine for friends and family. I'd like to be able to give every student 2 copies using the remaining funds from the first semester.

Observe the difference TONE makes! Great job Mei Xian for making a tone drawing with iconic perspective. Try the "rail road method of perspective."

Marcos is getting perspective! He depicts it with iconic art, way above a visual horizon line.

Marcos is understanding the figure in motion; his perportions aren't that of a man, but he is drawing a hedgehog. The important thing is these are advanced figure drawings.