Fall 2013
Instructor: Justin Waddell
Email: justin.waddell@acad.ca
Course: MADT 101 A – Exploring
Digital Environments
Assignment: .gif
Animations
Assigned: Sept. 10th, 2013.
Due Date: Sept. 17th, 2013 (1 Week).
Description:
The Graphics
Interchange Format (.gif) is a 256 colour bitmap format that allows
for animations and small file sizes.
Concept and Structure:
Students are required to
source, edit, build, and exhibit several .gif animations. Class
time will be set aside for a workshop on the construction of animated .gifs
using Photoshop CS6. From this basic workshop you will be asked to collect
images from the Internet, as well as with digital cameras. You are to consider
themes and connections between the images you select. Why are you using them?
Why are you interested in them? These reasons do not have to be conceptual;
they can also be formal (colour, line, textures). Try to utilize the “affective
qualities” of the .gif. Also, think about the use of timing, sequencing,
movement, and repetition. It is also helpful to decide on a theme for your
series and develop work that can respond to it.
Objectives:
· To
make something you enjoy looking at.
· To
subvert traditional forms of media.
· To
research images on the Internet as well as import images from other devices.
· To
work with Adobe CS6 (Bridge, Photoshop, layers, animation) and to become more
comfortable in a digital environment.
· To
work with sequencing, timing, and movement.
· To
display your work and try to talk about it without ruining the experience of
looking at it.
· To
have fun while making art, learning something new, and sharing it with your
peers.
Process:
·
Students will have class time on Sept. 10th
begin to workshop, develop, and build your .gif images/animations. By the end
of the day, Students must have completed a min. of 7 animated .gifs and provided
with a week to complete a min. of 7 additional separate animated .gifs (for a total of 14 .gifs).
·
7/14 of your.gifs must use photographs that
you imported from a digital camera (including phones, etc.). The photographs
can be used in combination with appropriated images.
·
Your .gif must be created in Adobe Photoshop
(CS6) and not in a separate .gif
animator program. Each of your animated .gifs must be less than 1mb in size and be uploaded to your blog by 9am
on Sept. 17th. Any late submissions will not be accepted for
critique.
Additional Information:
·
Blogger does not support uploading .gif
animations L
therefore you must use another service to host your .gif (such as flickr,
photobucket, or tumblr) then use the URL of the upload in the Photo URL of the
blogger post.
· The
Affect of Animated GIFs (Tom Moody, Petra Cortright, Lorna Mills): http://www.artandeducation.net/papers/view/14
· Stephanie
Davidson: http://www.stephd.biz/
· Rising
Tensions: http://risingtensions.tumblr.com/
· How To
Create Animated .GIFs using CS6: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSB8C58284-9DEB-44f2-9D8F-7F77594A8CC2a.html
Fall 2013
Instructor: Justin Waddell
Email: justin.waddell@acad.ca
Course: MADT 101 A – Exploring
Digital Environments
Assignment: .gif
Animations
Assigned: Sept. 10th, 2013.
Due Date: Sept. 17th, 2013 (1 Week).
Description:
The Graphics
Interchange Format (.gif) is a 256 colour bitmap format that allows for
animations and small file sizes.
Concept and Structure:
Students are required to
source, edit, build, and exhibit several .gif animations. Class
time will be set aside for a workshop on the construction of animated .gifs
using Photoshop CS6. From this basic workshop you will be asked to collect
images from the Internet, as well as with digital cameras. You are to consider
themes and connections between the images you select. Why are you using them?
Why are you interested in them? These reasons do not have to be conceptual;
they can also be formal (colour, line, textures). Try to utilize the “affective
qualities” of the .gif. Also, think about the use of timing, sequencing,
movement, and repetition.
Objectives:
· To
make something you enjoy looking at.
· To
subvert traditional forms of media.
· To
research images on the Internet as well as import images from other devices.
· To
work with Adobe CS6 (Bridge, Photoshop, layers, animation) and to become more
comfortable in a digital environment.
· To
work with sequencing, timing, and movement.
· To
display your work and try to talk about it without ruining the experience of
looking at it.
· To
have fun while making art, learning something new, and sharing it with your
peers.
Process:
We will have class time
on Sept. 10th begin to workshop, develop, and build your .gif
images/animations. By the end of the day, Students must have completed a min.
of 7 animated .gifs and provided with a week to complete a min. of 7 additional
separate animated .gifs (for a total of
14 .gifs). Your .gif must be created in Adobe Photoshop (CS6) and not in a separate .gif animator program.
Each of your animated .gifs must be less
than 1mb in size and be uploaded to your blog by 9am on Sept. 17th.
Any late submissions will not be accepted for critique.
Additional Information:
·
Blogger does not support uploading .gif
animations L
therefore you must use another service to host your .gif (such as flickr,
photobucket, or tumblr) then use the URL of the upload in the Photo URL of the
blogger post.
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