week 1
Due Wednesday January 29th
The year is 2089. You live in a home for old people on Mars. You wake up in the
morning feeling rhapsodic and youthful. You dress up, brush
your hair and apply your face cream. You feed Buck (or Pluto?), your tri-color
Bassett Hound three strawberries and a
teaspoon of milk.
The breakfast menu appears on your bedroom monitor: PANCAKES
"This is going to be a good day" you say to Buck, and kiss him on the nose.
Just as you're about to exit the room a siren goes off. Your monitor displays:
Flood in
the laundry room. Cannot control. Evacuate immediately to Old Home #2. Take on
onlyly im im i m portant belonjings jing ging jings ngs ghhhhh
The good news: Old Home #2 is outside and only 15 feet away.
The bad news:
● The temperature outside is -243°F (-153°C)
● There is a dust storm with 120 mph winds carrying rocks and spatial debris.
● It's pitch dark except for the light from Phobos and Deimos, Mars's two moons.
● You're out of protein pellets and you need one every 45 minutes.
Build a small model of a device, machine or contraption that will take you from Old Home #1 to Old Home #2.
What does your outfit look like? What sensors do you need to survive
the outside climate? What futuristic technology will you put to use to survive the short
but tumultuous journey? And how will you make it in less than 45 minutes so that you can reload on protein?
Good luck. Dont forget Buck.
On Wednesday you will come up in front of the class and present / perform your project. Make it into a story and consider incorporating other elements such as light and sound.
NOTE: all work you make for TIA must be new and original. Music, sounds, images, objects - should all be made entirely by you.
PART II: due Tuesday January 28th
- set up your glitch website
- create a weekly menu link system
- put a link to your website here
- start thinking about your vision for your website. what will it look like? how will we interact with it? how will it be unique and different about it?
week 2
Due Tuesday February 4th
Using everything you've learned so far about HTML, CSS and GLITCH, develop your website.
Your site is meant to be an experimental art canvas for expressing your artistic vision online, and both a platform for your storytelling and for uploading your weekly assignments.
Remember - you must create everything you put on your sites and it must be your own new original work. NO OLD WORK.
You know how to:
- Display text, links, images, GIFs, color, size, css, etc
- Draw, photograph, shoot video and make sounds
- Incorporate sound files and video mp4 files
- Visit w3schools HTML tutorials and ezgif
- Google "How do I ______ in HTML?"
- ASK ME FOR HELP
Use this knowledge and your imagination to develop a unique vision for your site - what story will it tell? HHow will we interact with it?
- Create a unique main page
- Create a "menu system" with links to the 14 weeks. What will all this look like?
- Upload your first week Mars projects to a new week 1 page with project title, images, project description - essentially recreate your presentation/performance but for your site
- Create a page for you P5.js sketches. Link to it from your main page
week 3
Due Tuesday February 11th
First of all make sure your websites are in a good place. If you are behind on this - catch up. Schedule with me for help if needed.
PART 1 - POSTER
Using Photoshop start a new project that is 1200 pixels X 1600 pixels.. Create a poster invitation for our Karaoke event (for a random date).
- Give your event an original name, something aside from "Collaborative Arts Karaoke"
- Carefully consider your design and what you'd like to convey
- What's your unique style? What details will you include? How will you capture our attention? What fonts will you use? DO you even like Karaoke?
- NO AI GENERATED IMAGES - only your original art, images, photos, text, drawings, etc..
- Export your poster as a JPG or PNG and upload to your website's WEEK 3 page
There are many Photoshop tutorials HERE
PART 2 - GIFS
Using Photoshop, experiment and create three different GIFS in this size 1200 pixels X 1200 pixels and these themes:
- Climate Change, Sinister, Current Drama (or substitute this for your own choice)
- NO AI GENERATED IMAGES - only your original art, images, photos, text, etc..
- How will you use the GIF animation format to create something unique and compelling? What story will to tell?
- I'm expecting you to make something far more sophisticated than the quick experiments we did during class
- Export your GIFs and upload them to your website's WEEK 3 page
We will view them in class
If you like, jump ahead and watch
THIS TUTORIAL I made on how to create hand drawn Photoshop animations
week 4
Due Wednesday February 19th
In class we watched a few short animated videos that combine sound and motion in a unique way - things that are impossible in real life (without the use of special effects or CGI - computer graphic imagery).
- Jim Henson's Drum West
- Tux and Fanny
- Critter and Guitari Bolsa Bass
- Broad City title animations
- Bill Plympton's Push Comes to Shove
There are endless more examples.
Your assignment is to create a 20-30 second animated video inspired by these works (or any similar others) that tells a unique story, and one that also visually animates sound in a unique way.
This is as much a sound design assignment as it is an animation assignment. You must create all the sounds and/or record the sounds yourself - whether synthesized or acoustic or sampled. You can employ various styles of animation techniques.
AVOID THE GENERIC AND THE CLICHE!
- Export your animations as MP4 videos and upload them to your website's WEEK 4 page. Then also upload them to this folder. We will then combine them and have a video festival in class with treats!
week 5
Due Tuesday February 25th
This week's Illustrator assignment is all about experimenting with shapes and lines. Using ILLUSTRATOR ONLY create two very expressive characters using different shapes, lines, and curves.
Modify your shapes and lines and experiment with colors, gradients, strokes, shape builders, opacity fills, rotations, curves, etc.
This assignment is an exercise in thoughtful excessiveness - it is meant for you to explore your design ideas by heavily manipulating and editing your ideas and experimenting with Illustrator's tools.
- Export your 2 Artboards as PNGs and post them on your site on week 5. Give your page a title.
- Export your Illustrator AI file, upload it to your Glitch Assets and link to it from your week 5 page (link to it like this <a href="link">illustrator file</a>)
- Write one short related poem for each character
The few simple things we learned in class will get you very far, but there are many more Illustrator tutorials online, for example:
- Illustrator tools
- Adobe Illustrator tutorials
Here is an example of past student work showing manipulation of shapes and colors. Everything we learned in class
