In this project you will work with ‘poetry’ and images—interpreting, mashing up, composing a text—then translating to create an animated narrative using found or generated graphic images. Students will first develop texts and a design plan then produce an animated interpretation (not an illustration) that expresses the spirit of the text.
* Readings/Video/Sites, for March 3: (discussion leaders: Eli, Jina, Chloe, Evan)
* Video, Animated Gifs – the Birth of a New Medium
* Reading from McCloud’s Understanding Comics, The Six Steps
* Top 10 Collage Artists: Hanna Hoch to Man Ray
* Visual Remix, Teju Cole, NYTimes
* Electronic Behavior Control System, EBN
* Postmodernism, definition (read Hebdige’s quote, p 154-155)
* Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago, So What?, NYTimes
* How to Make a Dadaist Poem, Tristan Tzara, 1920
For browsing:
Julian Rosefeldt Manifesto video installation – # 6 is the Dada manifesto
Gifs Worth at Least a Thousand Words, NYTimes
Tutorials
*Animated Gif Using Video Timeline (by Jacob Rivkin)
* (Transcription here: Photoshop Select and Animate)
Animated Gif Using Frame Animation
12 frame GIF animation.
Animation exercises from previous classes:
2015, 2016, 2016s, 2017, 2018, 2018s, 2018spr
Final animations Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Summer 2016
“Meet and Mingle” – Dorothy Espalto
Specifications for final Project 2 animation:
Approximately 30 seconds, with sound, short description, with titles:
Your name
Foundations of Art Design and Digital Culture
Penn Fine Arts
2020
2020 Foundations 