PROJECT #2:

Grace Under Pressure

 

This is your first fully evaluated assignment. See rubric for grading criteria

Specifications:

(1) create at least a 15 second animation exemplifying this phrase "Grace Under Pressure"
(2) Use the one of the choices for characters or elements provided on the week2 part of my syllabus
You may use your own props and modeled environments if you wish, but try to act it out through the character.
(3) the animation should be software or rendered or hardware rendered playable quicktime movie, HD sized.
bonus renders may include extra views, side, or different perspective views.
(4) the animation is due at the beginning of the class one week from the assigment day. be prepared to recieve
critique and talk about your intentions and ideas behind your animation.

DESCRIPTION:

"Grace under Pressure" just as it suggests, can show a character or element under severe stress or scrutiny, yet
holding it together with beauty and perhaps honor and dignity. Yet, it can also mean being slightly oblivious to the danger
that a one is in, or it can mean there is a vanity or elitism of someone in a degraded or dire situation, or something that demands action. It is all up to you to interpret this phrase and create an aswer with your animation.

EXAMPLES?

-A man walking, reading a newspaper, unscathed through a lanes of speeding cars without a calculated precision of not being run over.

(you need only suggest props if you wish)

-A person bowling the perfect stike although the odds are stacked against him, and his opponents are predicting failure.

-A novice defusing a bomb in one effortless move, in which even bomb experts were afraid to touch

-someone standing in line to jump off a frighteningly high diving board, and finally finding the courage and grace to jump.

-same idea but parachuting off of a plane.

-a young person taking their first drink of very strong liquor, while being watched by his older peers.

-a soldier being lurking behind a barrior for protection, and finding the stregnth to charge up a hill of battle.

Again, you don't have to show costume, or other characters or props. Use a single character and body language to illustrate the whole story.