Course Number: ARTD 275
Course Name: Time Arts II
Professor: Mr. Bart Woodstrup
Spring 2011
Weekly Tentative Course Schedule - subject to change.
Week One
January 18/20
Lecture: Review Photoshop - Expressive Typography, Screen Design, and Motion
Assignment: Type and Motion
Reading: Digital Media Primer pp. 26-55 (Due Jan 20 - Quiz)
Reading: Digital Media Primer pp. 232-263 (Due Jan 25)
Week Two
January 25/27
Lecture: Intro to Time and Motion: Flash Animation
Assignment: Type and Motion (Due Jan 25)
Assign: Einstein's Dream
Reading: Einstein's Dreams (Due Jan 27)
Week Three
February 1/3
Lecture: Rotation, Bounce, Ease, Keyframe vs. Cell Animation
Assignment: Einstein's Dream (Storyboards Due)
Reading:
Week Four
February 8/10
Lecture:
Publishing a Flash file
Assignment: Einstein's Dream
Reading: The Design of Everyday Things, Norman (Due Feb 22)
Reading: Digital Media Primer pp. 270-283 (Due Feb 22)
Feb 10 - TBD
Week Five
February 15/17
Lecture: Intro to Interactive Programming - Cognition, Interface Metaphors, and User Experience (Dialogue)
Assignment: Einstein's Dream (Due Feb 17)
Assign: Interact
Reading: Digital Media Primer pp. 102-117, 124-138, and 284-299 (Due Feb 27)
Week Six
February 22/24
Lecture: Intro to Interactive Programming (Digital Audio, Actionscript: Structure, Comments, Trace, Data Types, and Variables)
Assignment: Interact (Due Feb 24)
Assign: Sound Toy
Reading: Digital Media Primer pp. 304-326 (Due March 1)
Week Seven
March 1/3
Lecture: Interactive Programming (Operators, Events, Functions, and Common Errors)
Assignment: Sound Toy
Reading: Digital Media Primer pp. 326-348 (Due March 8)
Week Eight
March 8/10
Lecture: Interactive Programming (Returning a value, Constants, for/while, and If/then Statements)
Assignment: Sound Toy (Due March 22)
Assign: Interactive Narrative
Reading: Storytelling and Scriptwriting - pdf's (Due March 22)
Artist: Pablo Pedercini - Everyday the Same Dream
March 15/17 - Spring Break
Week Nine
March 22/24
Lecture: Interactive Programming (Drawing, x y Positioning, Mouse Tracking, Alpha, Rotation, Scale, and Randomization).
Assignment: Interactive Narrative (Storyboards Due) Sound Toy (Due March 22)
Reading: My Design Philosophy by Ernest Adams (Due March 29)
Artist: Dolphin Oracle 2 by Piotr Szyhalski and Richard Shelton
Week Ten
March 29/31
Week Eleven
April 5/7
Week Twelve
April 12/14
Assignment: Interactive Narrative (Due April 12)
Reading: Creative Code (Casey Reas)
Artist: Casey Reas, Ben Fry, Daniel Shiffman
Week Thirteen
April 19/21
Lecture: Intro to Processing
Assignment: Pixel Gardening
Reading: Discovering Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry - Fibonacci Sequence
Artist: Jared Tarbell, Scott Snibbe
Week Fourteen
April 26/28
Lecture: Processing continued
Assignment: Pixel Gardening
Reading: Creative Code (John Simon Jr., Golan Levin)
Artist: John Simon Jr., Golan Levin, Paul Thayer
Week Fifteen
May 3/5
Lecture: Work-in-class
Assignment :Pixel Gardening (Due)
Week Sixteen - Finals
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