Final Assignment; Narrative Art Unit

This unit we have focused on using art to tell a story.  We have explored various mediums that are sequential, and therefore have beginnings, middles and ends.  For example, an animation of a rainstorm creating a rainbow or an animation of a basketball game becoming flooded.  Even the letters that make up our names are read from left to right, and therefore have a beginning, middle and end phonetically.  

We have studied font, character design, background design, comic strips, comic books, zoetrope animation and rotoscoped animation.  

For a final project, Please choose one of the following last assignments -

1 -  Large Scale Background with Large Scale Zoetrope Animation.   

Assignment:  To create a work of art that is both an environment gallery wall piece while also serving as a part of an animated GIF.   

Materials Required:

• Large Scale Paper
• Watercolors
• Markers
• Color Pencils, Pencils, Erasers

1. Create an Environment on a large scale piece of paper.  Ask 5 questions of this environment and answer them on the back of the piece of paper.  
2. Draw/Paint/collage your environment based upon your answers.
3. Using a Zoetrope  stripe, create a character that exists in this environment.  
4. Bring the backgrounds and stripe for photograph and animation.

             2 -  “How To” Booklet

1. Make an 8 page comic book from 1 piece of paper.
2. Have the cover read “How to” and then whatever you wish to teach the reader.  For example: “how to bake a cake”, “how to do a backflip”, “How to Tie your shoes”  
3. Have 1 page be a needed materials list.
4. Have each page after be individual steps to complete your “How to”.  

              3 -  3 Animated GIFs using giphy.com  

Assignment:  Shoot Video or use photos to create a looped GIF that goes with their booklet, animation or character/background assignment.  

Materials Required:

• Video shooting device plus:
• Internet Access
• Smartphone with “Video to GIF” application

1. Shoot video or take photos on your smartphone.  
2. Open “Video to Gif” application.
3. Select video.
4. Adjust start and duration times.
5. Click Arrow to complete.
6. Save as video.
7. Email video to yourself and jwturnbull@massart.edu

              4 -  Group Assignment - Rotoscoped VIDEO.  The class will choose a video to have be rotoscoped.  Each student will be responsible for 3 drawings of this group project.  

Zoetropes and Rotoscopes

Mario





Looney Tune examples:






Middle School








Emotional States











Claymation



Rotoscoping






Zoetrope:

Step 1:  Take a Zoetrope strip.
Step 2:  Imagine between each noted dots there is .3 seconds that pass.
Step 3:  Do a series of drawings that illustrates time passing between the dots.
Step 4:  Have the first drawing and the last drawing line up; zoetropes work on a loop!
Step 5:  Bring the strip over to the teacher to be photographed.  The photographed drawings will be turned into an animation
Step 5b:  going to giphy.com, individually load each drawing with your own phone to create your own animated gif.
GIFs will be collected on this website.

Rotoscope:

1.  Using your cellphone, take a series of photos where .3 seconds have passed between shots.  Do a minimum of 5.
2. With tracing paper, trace over these photographs and color them in.
3.  Bring them to the teacher to be photographed, or photograph each drawing yourself and upload them to www.giphy.com
4.  Rotoscopes will be collected on this website.

Each student is expected to do at minimum 1 zoetrope animation and 1 rotoscope animation!



How to Rotoscope



Step 1 -

Take a minimum of 5 photos with your phone.

Step 2 -

With tracing paper, trace over these photos.

Steph 3 -

Color and Trace.