Hi everyone! Good talk! Remember what we discussed today!
For homework: Set a time limit for each scene of your film. (20 minutes per scene is a good average)
Within that time limit, do your best to draft out the keys for your scene. When the time is over, stop, and move to the next scene. See how much coverage you can get for your entire film!
I gave you an average of "8 drawings for every 4 seconds [8 drawings for 96 frames]" to do. Use this as a way to gauge your progress. See how far you can get with your film! Draft out a scene, and force yourself to move on to the next in that time limit. Work across your film, going through each scene a little bit. If you get to the end, go back though again and add more content repeating this process!
This is a great exercise to get you to focus on story and interesting characters! For those of you who draw slowly, it makes you think faster about art development. For those that are quick to not finish your sequences, this gets you to focus on movement, performance, and clear ideas first and foremost!
Go as far as you can! Draft out environments for scenes in this time as well! (count it as one of your key drawings.) No color yet! Cleanup is always the LAST part of the process when making a film. If you start on this too early, you sacrifice more interesting story and characters!
If everyone can complete this assignment and show significant progress across their films, I will bring Dropmix to continue our conversations about "practically applied artistry," and I will also drop some cartoon network interviews on the server for your benefit!
Remember: the best artists make a lot of art first. You have to make a lot of "bad" clay pots before you learn how to make your best ones!
We will talk more about developing art books and portfolios, visual styles, how to recognize professional artists through the way they make art, and many more topics! Remember what we talked about today!
