Session 1: Course Intro
Introduction
Animated gifs are kind of like the flipbooks of the digital age. Quick and easy to produce and distribute, but with almost endless creative possibilities, the creation of animated gifs is a great way to begin to explore both digital and traditional time based media. The popularity of animated gifs in social media and advertising, the rise of short form video sharing sites like Vine and Instagram, and the ability to easily create short animations and videos with mobile devices make this kind of "micro cinema" an important part of our contemporary media landscape.
Project Overview
- Photoshop Introduction
- Storyboarding
- Shoot your GIFs
- Build your GIFs
- FINAL SUBMISSION - Animated GIF Project
By the end of this course, each student will create three looping GIF animations using stop motion photography and Photoshop.
We'll build up to that with four smaller projects. In this session, we'll discuss and work on the first one: Photoshop Introduction.