Monthly Archives: April 2025

Animation Project
Due by the end of class on May 14th, the last day of class.
Due by the end of the day on May 19th. Make sure to take advantage of open studio hours!
At least 25 seconds

• Has an edited audio track that is not just a song. It must have multiple audio tracks like the audio project or sound effects. Have fun with this.
• This is an Art. So don’t just make something that could already exist or make fanfiction. Don’t put Superman in Gotham City, don’t put Homer in Springfield… make something new. Remember “Culture Always Builds On The Past.” So you can remix and mash things up if you want, but be original.
• This does not have to be frame by frame in Photoshop, it can be stop motion images, drawings, something you made on your tablet, or images from Illustrator…. just make it at least 25 seconds.
• This is going to take some work, you can do it! It will be worth it.

Some examples –

Frame By Frame Animation pt 1

Files to download

Set up a new workspace in Photoshop.

Create New

Start animating your work.

Save a PSD version and PNG. If messing something up, you can go back to the PSD to make changes.

Frame By Frame Animation pt 2

Set Up Premiere – New Project

New Project Settings

Right Click – New Sequence

Custom Sequence Settings

New Sequence Settings

Drag in your PNG folder, which turns it into a bin Put everything from the bin on the timeline. Highlight 001 first hold shift and do to the last frame. By default all your clips are 5 seconds. We need to work with frames. 30 frames in a second. Select all you frames, and COMAND-R
1 frame. Rippple Edit

Mine was super fast so I made it 5 frames

Select your sequence. COMAND-M.

In “output name’ choose to put the output in a folder called exports

Make a free account with Vimeo and post it there.
Post the link to your blog.

A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in the 19th century. A disk with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to blend into one due to the persistence of vision

The phenakistoscope was an early animation device that used a spinning disk of sequential images and the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion.

A zoetrope is one of several pre-cinema animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/arts/design/01zoet.html

A flip book is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change.

Fantasmagorie is a 1908 French animated film by Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon.

Steamboat Willie, 1928
The first cartoon with sound effects

Fantasia, 1940

Astro Boy, 1952
Some of the first anime for television. Still to this day anime is mostly done by hand.

A hand-made, scratched-on film experiment in intermittent animation. The images are a group of twenty-four visuals, all non-representational, which arrange and rearrange on the screen in many combinations. The result is a changing pattern of sound and image that has its own rhythm for eye and ear.

Op Hop – Hop Op – 1966
Pierre Hébert

Rino Stefano Tagliafierro
B E A U T Y
2014

Don Hertzfeldt
Rejected
2000

Don Hertzfeldt
Simpsons Couch Gag
2014

HERTZFELDT ON BLU-RAY

Brad Neely
George Washington
2008

Brad Neely
Wizard People, Dear Reader
2004

Brad Neely website – http://creasedcomics.com/

H5(French animation collective)
Logorama
2009

Jeremy Couillard
Alien Afterlife Trailer
2016

This one is not embeddable, click the link to watch.
http://www.ubu.com/film/sherman_doll.html

Tommy Hartung
The Bible (Trailer)
2014

Tommy Hartung’s Underground Movies | “New York Close Up” | Art21
2011

#MeToon
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (2019)

Trey Parker and Matt
The Spirit of Christmas
1992

https://www.facebook.com/Cortometraje/videos/south-park-shortfilm-1992-the-sprit-of-christmas-jesus-vs-frosty/533610314025345/

Trey Parker and Matt
The Spirit of Christmas
1995

Write a blog post (on your blog) discussing the animation we watched and talked about. Write about at least 4 aminations. Tell me what you liked or disliked. Tell me What you found interesting or terrible.

250 Words.
DO NOT COPY AND PASTE.

I do not want a summary of any of the videos. Write about how you felt, or what you thought about, how any of the videos you made you feel…. things like that. Connect some dots, I do not want googled/Wikipedia facts.

DUE  – April 23rd

On April 23rd, we will start working on frame-by-frame animation with Photoshop and Adobe Premiere.

Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
Please do not summarize the content of the reading. I have read the reading and I already know what it says! Instead, pick a passage from the reading that stands out to you, something that is compelling or confusing, something that causes you inspiration or outrage. Perform a close reading of that passage and explain what it means to you and why it holds your interest.

Post a 300-word response on your blog.

https://forms.gle/pbDrj3adcDqDF588A

We are working on our audio project from the start of class until 2:10pm. We will meet in the library at 2:30pm. After we meet with the visiting artist, we will reconvene in the studio to finish up work on the audio project.

WE WILL NOT MEET IN PERSON NEXT WEEK.
There will be an animation lecture along with instructions about a blog post on the class blog.