DUE Today:

• First draft of story-board (as a layer comp in Photoshop or Illustrator)
• And script (typed and handed in as PDF in word)

Lesson

• Edge Animate: pinning, tweening, importing images, key frame tools and symbols

In-Class

• Any new inspiration websites?
• Time to work on story-board
• Experiment with Edge Animate
• Once storyboard is approved you can begin to save graphics for web and begin to set up Edge file

Homework
Take a look at this website: http://visualized.com/2014/#storytellers

• Choose one of the 30+ innovators listed under the storytellers. I would like to research them and find two significant projects they have been involved with.
• On Openlab, please list their name, the links to their projects and a brief description (300 words) of why they are interesting to you:
  http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/adv3662-interactive-animation/forum/topic/2014-visualized-conference/

DUE: Second draft of banner comp should be finaized (Photoshop or Illustrator layer comps are fine). You will be asked to present them to client – via PDF posted on dropbox.

Here are a number of resources passed on to us by Barbabra Arrindell. Please read them for Tuesday. I will post our class agenda on Monday. Have a nice weekend!

Resources

TheSkyisPink<–watch the fim…read the intro
DamascusCitizens.org/TheSkyIsPink

Maps of gas drilling in Bradford County, PA – the first map, an animated GIF is of permitted gas wells by quarter year intervals – take a moment to watch it advance with a different color for each quarter
http://www.bradfordcountypa.org/Natural-Gas.asp?specifTab=2

NY Times – GasDrilling is a Ponzi Scheme
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/natural-gas-drilling-down-documents-4-intro.html?_r=0

Aug 28, 2012 – Natural Gas (UNG): From “Ponzi Scheme” to Huge Write downs. A little over a year ago The New York Times published a very controversial … doubt on the wells in shale formations in Barnett, Marcellus, and Fayettesville
http://seekingalpha.com/article/832831-the-natural-gas-ponzi-scheme

AND the NY TImes article on “Heart’s Disease” or Solastalgia
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31ecopsych-t.html?_r=1

Artwork by Kate MacDowell;  photograph by Dan Kvitka for The New York  Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31ecopsych-t.html?pagewanted=all

Attached here is their latest appeal letter – it gives more info about DCS:
DCS Appeal Letter 9:06:13

DUE Today:

• First draft of story-board and script sketch (paper and pencil is fine)
• Gif animation exercise
• Reading (see above)

Lesson

• Review introduction to Edge Animate: Interface, palettes, creating graphics, creating animations
• Pinning, tweening and key frame tools
• Download class lesson files here: week4-lesson

In-Class

• Any new inspiration websites? Discuss reading
• Time to work on story-board as a layer comp in Photoshop (728x210px – 72dpi)
• Experiment with Edge Animate

Homework

First draft of Story-board (as a layer comp in Photoshop or Illustrator) and script (typed and handed in as PDF in word)

DUE Today

• DAMASCUS – make sure you read all the related links posted under homework week2
• Post your URL on Openlab discussion page:
  http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/adv3662-interactive-animation/forum/topic/post-your-domain-name-your-url-here/
• Post your URL for inspirational website from www.commarts.com to Openlab discussion page:
  http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/adv3662-interactive-animation/forum/topic/interactive-websites-examples/
• Animated psd of type exercise (two opposite words 300x250px) – I will ask everyone to save the file as a gif into my dropbox folder

Agenda

• Meeting Client – we will have a client skype call with Barbara Arrindell from Damascus Citizens group.
• Clarify questions related to project overview I handed out in class last week: ADV3662_Project1Overview
• Be prepared to ask questions. What do you need to know in order to move forward with the project?

Lesson

• Review layer comps in Photoshop. Here is an example: LayerComp-Example.psd
• Review file optimization, save for web: PNG, SVG, GIF & JPEG, (www.kraken.io/)
• Introduction to Edge Animate: Interface, palettes, creating graphics, creating animations
• Download class lesson files here: week3-lesson

Project 1 Specs

Specifications for Banner ad: 728 x 210 Large Leaderboard – after the ad is designed and approved (static version) we will build the animation over the next few classes using Edge Animate. All images will need to be saved for web at 72dpi

Homework

DUE: First draft of story-board and script sketch. A storyboard is a visualization in drawing of the different shots (shot sketches) in the order they will appear in the finished work, and includes compositional information (close up, pan, wide shot, etc.). Your drawings can be very simple-stick figures even.