These projects come from a variety of courses I have taught at the College level.
Animated Rooms
Students created 3D rooms and then manipulated the camera and added movement. The images on the left show how changing camera settings can create an isometric effect. The videos show moving assets seen through an animated camera. The challenge was to move the camera to focus on one motion at a time. This requires an understanding of pacing and staging. Students used Maya for this project.
Student Work - Ortho Room
Student Work - Ortho Room
Ortho Room - Student Work
Ortho Room - Student Work
Ortho Room - Student Work
Ortho Room - Student Work
3D Characters
Students created rigged characters. The rigging is demonstrated by posing the character inside a modeled space. Here are examples of t-poses and characters in an environment.
storyboarding
students created a storyboard following dialogue from a Shakespeare play.
Othello Act 4 scene 3 Emilia
macbeth act 1 scene 5 lady macbeth
Reverse Engineered Storyboard
For this assignment, students watched clips from movies and had to draw out the storyboard. camera movements, such as pans and tilts, as well as notable action were noted as well.
2001 Space Odyssey - Student Storyboard
LOGO Ideation
students were given descriptions of fictitious companies. Using these descriptions, they created mood boards, brainstormed ideas and developed logo designs. Each step of the process included review by members of the class.
Dynamic Type - Movie Titles
The Sand Lot - Student Movie Title
2D ANimation