Running List of Homework (by week)

11/12/2025

Complete Project No.03, Handout no.02
- For next week:
  - elucidate your production plan with your group so that you may begin producing the actual frames
  - refine and remake your storyboard if significant production or conceptual changes are made or suggested during class
  - begin production of your frames for the final animation, incorporating and addressing feedback from class and informed by the risograph demo
Complete Project No.02, Handout no.05
- For next week:
  - Utilize the feedback from class to refine and print three (3) final 11" x 17" prints (10" x 16" trimmed).
  - Have these prints ready to show and hang for class next week.
Stoopid Time
- Tala
- Alex
Donut Tower Competition, be ready!

Complete Project No.03, Handout no.01 For next week, produce a storyboard of the animation, which indicates:
- what is happening in each frame
- who is doing what (note in clear terms the division of labor)
- how you might divide or combine colors
Complete Project No.02, Handout no.04

Complete Project No.02, Handout no.03, Vector Decoration
Two (2) different borders added to an existing compositions (this may require you to reposition or reconfigure an existing composition).
Five (5) different examples of decoration or ornamentation added to your existing compositions
Five (5) different examples of "structures" or other elements added to your existing compositions. This is a little more ambiguous, and depends to some extent on what you're doing with your other characters.
The final deliverables for homework will be the following:
- Five (5) existing compositions modified with the above changes, saved as .png
- Five (5) new compositions recombing the above changes, or with new elements, saved as .png
Show 'n' Tell
- Theo & Lulu

Complete Project No.02, Handout no.02, Vector Figuration

-.png's (raster w/ transparent background) of each of the above separate drawings (line, curve, rectangle, ellipse)
- .svg or .eps (vector) of each of the above separate drawings (line, curve, rectangle, ellipse)
- .png's of type + drawing compositions.
Stoopid Time
- Alanna & Kelly

Complete (at least) 10 compositions for Project No.02, Handout no.01, Typeface Workshop (save as .png or raster imagery)
Familiarize yourself with Adobe Illustrator, contact me with any technical issues
Show 'n' Tell
- Sadie & Emma

complete Project no.01, Handout no.05, Refined Prototypes
within that page, you'll see the beginning of project 2, think of a word or topic that you'd like to focus on for the next project, and research it.
make sure all uploads for previous homework (project #1) is up to date
Show 'n' Tell
- Malacai & Sophia (pushed to 10/08/2025)

if for the previous step you don't have at least 30 images create more to "whittle down" from.
complete Project no.01, Handout no.04, Preliminary Prototypes
- refine down to three more considered compositions, and prepare them for printing. (10" x 10" at 300dpi )
Stoopid Time
- Roxxy & Calvin

complete Project no.01, Handout no.03, Rapid Improvisational Compositions
- complete your work, started in class. Complete up to 100 compositions and save them out (either by photographing or from Photoshop)
Show 'n' Tell
- Tala & Alex

complete Project no.01, Handout no.02, Generate a Library of Visual Elements
- We collected the library elements in class, we agreed on a communal library of at least 150 images.
- Your HW was to edit at least 5 images to prove you have used and attempted using Photoshop to some extent.
Stoopid Time (think of three questions each, make them absurd, or abstract, or perhaps about something that you don't have a way of knowing about easily "very specialized domain knowledge")
- Lulu & Theo

complete (Exercise) "What's on Top of the Deck?!?!)
complete Project no.01, Understanding Your Object
- select your object
- photograph
- write about and categorize it
- pairing exercise (photograph or find)
Show 'n' Tell
- Kelly & Ollie