9.2 week 1 – Introductions & Storytelling
- Discuss 4D – The importance of Time and Narrative in Animation
- https://youtu.be/BpWM0FNPZSs Deadline
- https://youtu.be/wZeguaJzUyk KaBoom!
- Animation Lab – Flip books – linier animations
- Animation Lab – Zoetropes – looping animations
- Watch: https://youtu.be/5khDGKGv088
9.9 week 2 – Animation – Stop Motion
- Animation Lab – DragonFrame
- Watch:
- https://youtu.be/brGtHDXv1QE – 3d printed zoetrope
- https://youtu.be/aA-4IhxTO70 – food as animation material
9.16 week 3 – Animation – Sprites & Code
- Post video of stop motion animation progress
- Animation Lab – From Zoetrope to Sprites with Photoshop/ Illustrator and Dreamweaver
- Review: https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/css-sprite-sheet-animations-steps
9.23 week 4 Studio Time
9.30 week 5 – Animation Critique
- Present 3 animations for discussion and critique
- Reading: A book of surrealist games, Compiled by Alastair Brotchie
- Focus on pages: 10-12;
- Explore Chain Games 24-29, 36-38
- Explore Visual Techniques 48-54, 59-69, 72-79
- Explore Surrealist Re-Inventions: 124-127
10.7 week 6 – Rule Making and Game Design
- Discuss 4D – How rules influence interactions, design and making
- Game Lab – Rule Making – exploring surrealist games
- Surrealist Studio – War, Definitions, Dadaist Poem, Torn Paper Collage, Would You Open The Door?
- Read: http://gamingconceptz.blogspot.com/2012/10/huizingas-magic-circle.html
- Watch: https://youtu.be/wtPBOwE0Qn0
- Homework: deconstruct – reconstruct
10.14 week 7 – Game Design – Play testing
- Game Lab – Play test
- Game Studio – refine • play test • refine
10.21 week 8 – Game Critique
- Play final version of surrealist games then discuss each experience.
- Watch in class: The Five Obstructions
10.28 week 9 – Video / Performance / Audio – SECAC conference
- Discuss 4D – Connecting it all with video / performance / audio
- Video Lab: iPhone video and editing
- Audio Lab: Garage Band
- Watch in class: The Five Obstructions
- John Cage’s 4’33” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4
11.4 week 10 – Video / Performance / Audio
- Studio time to continue editing
11.11 week 11 – Video / Performance / Audio Critique
- Present 3 Minute Video
11.18 week 12 – Space & Light
- Discuss 4D: Grabbing attention and controlling space with light / light graffiti
- Lighting lab – Projection Mapping with LightForm
- Studio: Sketch ideas for a video or animated projection in the immersive projection dome
- Watch: Light and Space art movement https://youtu.be/uwRkvabMlC4
- more Light and Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aho-zYz2fGU
- James Turrell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlzm3Ea3RE
- Momentum https://youtu.be/mPNbH4gRqFM
- Access https://youtu.be/C4VBP7pp8LA
- Guerrilla Projections
- graffiti with lasers https://youtu.be/Q4ocIIBTqLs
- interactive architecture https://youtu.be/1vc0WK6DF7A
- Jenny Holtzer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT62rD7wPkU
- Explore: https://uxdesign.cc/illuminating-the-light-and-space-movement-and-its-artists-ebaf66caac50
- https://projects.jennyholzer.com/projections – Jenny Holtzer
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/projection-light-artists-protest Projection as protest
Thanksgiving Break 11.23-27
12.2 – week 13 Space & Light Critique
- Present and view projects in the dome
- Handout and discuss final project
12.9 – week 14 Studio Session and Individual meetings
- Meet individually to discuss final project idea
12.16 – week 15 Final Critique of Final Project
- Final crit meets on Dec 16th 3:30pm to 5:30pm