May 31, 2022

Architecture 5420: Digital Animation And Storytelling
Due: In-class screening, June 10, 8:00 am setup, 8:30 am startup, Lawrence 383.

*   The date and time is to be determined..
** Prepare to have a working representation of your final project using Playblast for any incompletely rendered parts if necessary. It’s best to target pre-final full draft one full day ahead of the due date and save the last 24 hours for extra finishing touches if time allows.

Exercise 5: final animation

Create a 1 to 3 minute animation incorporating any of the techniques we have covered this term (object motion, sound, light) into a short story sequence on a theme or subject of your own choosing. This project should be complete in terms of storytelling content with respect to having some kind  of “beginning”, “middle” and “end” or some sense of a premise and resolution. Greater length animations up to 5 minutes are allowable. Completeness and consistency, and not time-length is the objective.

1. The movie should convey a visual or spatial idea.
2. It should provide a primarily visual narrative
.3. Your movie should optionally reflect the potential of the built or natural environment, physical, plant or mechanical objects to shape your narrative.
4. Plan to meet with Earl Mark, especially during office hours or by appointment,  for any consulting as needed.
5. Create several separate sequences at the same resolution.
6. Pace your efforts over the remaining time before the screening.
7. Render your work in medium high raytrace quality and/or VRay and place in the submit folder as well as on a backup storage device for safekeeping. Although we will note have covered Arnold or Hardware 2.0 Rendering, you may use these at your own discretion.
8. Record your work to a jpeg animation sequence(s) and compile the resulting animation in a self-contained mp4 or quicktime mov format along with other editing software as needed. For composite rendering, which is optional, use the “png” file format for the rendered sequence with the alpha transparency channel.
9. Place your work in the classes submit folder by the screening time.
10. Submit a short 1 to 2 paragraph written description by the screening time (you may have a grace period of 12 hours if needed). You are welcome to submit earlier exercise descriptions as well.