Week 12 – class exercise

•現實不是無法改變的 。Reality is not unchangeable.

•世上沒有朋友，這世界就等同荒野  Without friends, the world is but a wilderness.

•黑夜给了我一双黑色的眼睛，我却用它来寻找光明。The black night gives me a pair of black eyes but I use them to search for light.

•如果愛他是錯，我不要做對。If loving him is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

 

Class 11 – Text and Typography

Lecture

• Time and motion (from last week)
• Typography introduction

Workshop

• Typing in Adobe Illustrator
• Design with your name
• Shape with Pathfinder

Reference

Thinking with Type

Saul Bass

Neville Brody

David Carson

Emigre

Jonathan Barnbrook

Edward Fella

Helvetica – the film

 

Resources

You can use the following text by James Joyce for typography exercise.

Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance. On Saturday evenings when my aunt went marketing I had to go to carry some of the parcels. We walked through the flaring streets, jostled by drunken men and bargaining women, amid the curses of labourers, the shrill litanies of shop-boys who stood on gaurd by the barrels of pigs’ cheeks, the nasal chanting of street-singers, who sang a come-all-you about O’Donovan Rossa, or a ballad about the troubles in our native land. These noises converged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

 

Class 10 – Time and motion

Presentation

• Each of the student has 5 minutes to present.
• Other students participate to ask questions in the next 5 minutes.
• Photo-taking of the A2 artwork

Lecture topics

• Motion in painting
• Motion information in digital media
• Spatialize time in 2D art
• Temporize space in animation

Reference

Tim McMillan

Zbigniew Rybczynski

Fourth Dimension

Paul Debevec

Bill Viola

Microsoft Photosynth

http://photosynth.net/default.aspx

Class 9 – Abstract Animation Workshop

Tools and materials needed:
1. Camera + Card reader
2. Tripod
3. Cardboard
4. Paper roll
5. Cutter and Tape (or masking tape)
6. Drawing tools

Some references:

Square Dance by René Jodoin

Boogie Boodle by Norman McLaren

Begone Dull Care by Norman McLaren

Lignes Horizontales by Norman McLaren

Lignes Verticales by Norman McLaren

An Abstract Autobiography

National Film Board of Canada