Project Proposal

Your first task is to create a project proposal. You will present the project proposal Tuesday, April 5 (via this blog). Your Project Proposal must contain:

1. A working title for your project.

Animation Crash-Course

2. A one-sentence description of your project.

A series of short animations meant to be a crash-course study in 2D animation using Adobe Flash.

3. A one-paragraph description of your project.

This project will consist of multiple short animations and one longer final animation. The first animations are each going to have a specific lesson tied to them that I will be learning through reading “The Animators Survival Kit” by Richard Williams. The final animation will be much longer than the rest and will use all of the things that the previous short animations have taught me.

4. A one-page description of your project.

Will post later tonight

5. A description of your products of study—what you're going to actually produce during the course of your project.

3-5 short flash animations, which may or may not have color or sound, and one final longer flash animation that will include both color and sound.

6. Visual and/or written research for your project—other people’s work

~”The Animators Survival Kit” by Richard Williams

~http://shazy.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d39atn2 (see previous post)

~http://oha.deviantart.com/art/MUSICAL-CATS-2D-animated-film-83303733 (see pervious post)

7. Treatment visuals for your project—your own work

Will post later tonight

8. A written description of specific technical and research issues you will need to address during the course of your project.

I am going to be reading Richard Williams’ “Animators Survival Kit” from cover to cover and selecting specific lessons from the text in which to base my shorter animations on. I will also be reaching out for knowledge from the online community for tips on how to animate using Adobe Flash.

9. A timeline of your project. When you will be doing all of this good stuff. You must include specific deadlines (for example: "May 17th", not "some time in May."

• April 5^th- Project Proposal is due.
• April 15^th- Complete first short animation, and post to blog.
• April 29^th- Complete second short animation, and post to blog.
• May 13^th- Complete third short animation, and post to blog.
• May 27^th- Post work in progress of final animation.
• June 10^th- Have final animation completed and posted to the blog for grading.

10. A blog containing all of the above. You must document your progress and process on the blog by updating it weekly.

I promise to update this blog a minimum of once a week, with posts concerning the progress of my animation projects.