How To Make Animated Films D/L's
Here are the downloadable files that are indicated for students in the 'How To Make Animated Films' coursebook... with some extras thrown-in!All files should be printed-out on standard 11" x 8.5"paper, unless otherwise stated.
1) Flour Sack Background
This file will provide you with a 10-field background to use for your 'Flour Sack' assignment. (Note: To work in a larger field size, enlarge the image accordingly on a scaleable photocopying machine and past it onto whatever size animation paper you're intending to work with.)
This file will provide you with a suitable background path to create your circular walk/run assignment on. (Alternatively, you can use any circular path background design of your own choosing if you so wish.)1) Flour Sack Background
This file will provide you with a 10-field background to use for your 'Flour Sack' assignment. (Note: To work in a larger field size, enlarge the image accordingly on a scaleable photocopying machine and past it onto whatever size animation paper you're intending to work with.)
3) Cartoon Quadruped
Use this design to create your cartoon-style quadruped assignment.
4) Audio Track
This .wav format audio track should be used for your dialogue assignment. It is free for use in the assignment requested but use for any other purposes is NOT authorized, except with the express written approval of the Desktop Academy.
This PDF file will provide you with a detailed, frame-by-frame phonetic breakdown of the above audio track, created in "Magpie Pro".
6) Exposure (Dope) Sheet
This file indicates how the sound breakdown information is usually transferred to a regular animator's Dope (Exposure) Sheet.
This file indicates how the sound breakdown information is usually transferred to a regular animator's Dope (Exposure) Sheet.
This file will enable you to print-out as many copies of a standard animators Dope (Exposure) Sheet you will need to work on any assignment.
If you have access to a 17" x 11" printer, this will provide you with a full sized, wrap-around production folder for your animation scenes. (Note: Production folders have the necessary dope [exposure] sheets for that particular scene stabled to them. The entire thing is then folded over to contain all the scene animation drawings/artwork too.)
If you don't have access to a 17" x 11" printer, this file will provide you with an 11" x 8.5" production folder front design, which you can attached to a folded 17" x 11" sheet of wrap-around paper that will also work fine as a production folder.
10) Progress Chart
This Excel format file will give you a print-out upon which you can write in all the scene numbers of your film, and then check-off the necessary stages of production as they are completed.
This file will provide you with a 10" Field Guide that you can work with for most of your coursebook assignments. (Note: If you wish to work to the professional sized 12" and 16" field sizes, you will first need to obtain the relevant industry-standard field guides [graticules] from a recognized animation supply store.)
This will provide you with a template for your own Progress Chart. (Take the amount of footage you have to animate it and divide this by the number of days you have to do it. This will give you an idea target you can write in for each day [lower row] against the dates of the days you have available to do the work in [upper row]. As you check off the days that pass, shade in the footage progress you are making at the same time. This will give you a clear, day-by-day barometer of whether you are ahead of your targets or not. Full details of this process are explained in Tony White's "Animation from Pencils to Pixels ~ Classical Techniques for Digital Animators".)
A bonus item... to enable you to storyboard-out your production ideas! Download this file then print-out sheets when and as you need them.
Note: Further download items will eventually be made available, as required.
