PROF. JIM OVELMEN SPRING 2017
Thursdays 4-9:40pm, Rm. FA225, office FA 227, email: jim@jimovelmen.com OR jovelme@calstatela.edu
Capstone Animation project is the final project which demonstrates your personal vision, creative, and technical skills culminating in traditional story, fine-art, or mixed media/experimental animation. You are encouraged to mix different kinds of animation, and think experimentally in any way.
Emphasis should be on the quality of your work, good use of technology, originality, and professional attitude. In this way your final grade will be based on a progress related accumulation of points. These points are delivered to the students at Midterm and Final Review Dates.
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CAPSTONE BASICS:
(1) IDEA you should be excited about your idea, if not, you should change it! asap.
(2) STYLE-BOOK (assets or bible) a specific and tight collection of guidelines and visual rules for your piece. Description for all the elements, characters history and personalities. Assets that will be actually seen in your project and how they look. ie. character design, prop library; physical details of elements finished elements. If non-narrative, then precise and mechanical descriptions of how to achieve the look of your piece.
(3) RESOURCE LIBRARY a general collection of resource materials that are important for development of project, but are not specifically going to be seen. ie: photos of environments, related imagery, excepts of texts, newspapers. Fine art references, paintings. This is where you develop the more broad ideas, and wider context for visualizations. The philosophy of you work and approach. Behind the scenes development
(4) STORYBOARD you will use 3 types: thumbnail (for yourself) presentation production, even if it is non-narrative, you still need a storyboard
(6) SOUND vocal track, any kinds of audio, music, foley
(7) ANIMATIC (storyboard filmed usually with sound), all toward the completion of the Story Reel.
(8) STORY REEL whether narrative or non-narrative, the Story Reel is final rendered piece
VIMEO examples of creative independent animations
CONDUCT
1st Capstone 2nd Capstone , 3rd/Q2S Capstone
YOU'LL BE GRADED ON Quality of PERFORMANCE:
(1) Progress and Completion
(2) Creativity
(3) Technical Effectiveness
Upload your work; click Dropbox button below. If you are a first-timer user: instructions
PRODUCTION SCHEDULE SPRING 2017 TBA by Students! (each student must make own production schedule!)
