Media Arts: One Hour of Code

Complete one of the following:
Flappy Birds Code
Lightbot Code
Minecraft

Extra time:
Try Code Combat

6th Media Arts: How to Movie

1. Research. What could you make instructions for? Could be funny, could be serious, must be simple.
Video: "The rise of web comics" PBS Offbook
2. "How to" cartoon movie examples
more comic movies
3. Write and storyboard your story
4. Design your frame in Adobe Illustrator. Save a copy of each as a jpeg
5. Import into iMovie
6. Add a title, credits, captions, music, sound effects. etc.
7. Export and hand in!

Extra time?
Explore some digital comics:
Homestuck
Daisy Owl
Rice Boy
Dinosaur

Make more comics:
Comic Creator
Chigger
Comic Master

7th Media Arts: You are what you Eat!

Research and Planning Worksheet

1. Questions 1-5: Guiseppe Arcimboldo
2. Make a 5 Star Meal! Once you have, draw what is on your plate. TRY HERE
3. Go to FoodNMe.com and follow along on your worksheet
4. SMASH YOUR FOOD!
5. Make a practice food face!
6. Student Examples 
7. Search for food photos
8. Go to roll-a-die to pick your theme

*If you have extra time, try these nutrition games:

Fit Teens

Nutrition for Kids

Videos

Work of Archimboldo

Sculpture inspired by Archimboldo

Till Nowak

6th Media Arts: Typographic Self Portrait

1. Presentation- What are fonts? 
2. Presentation- Typographic Design
3. Take a look at last year's student projects
4. VIDEOS: Movie "Typolution", An Intro to Typography, What is Typography?
5. Writing Assignment
6. Demonstration- creating and starting your project

Typographic" means made of type or letters.

This picture is all letters. Can you figure out

which ones?

• Work time

If you have extra time, try 
Design a Font
Kern Type
Shape Type
Type Fight
Font Game
TypeWar
What Type Are You?

7th Media Arts: An introduction to animation and cartoons

This animated gif project relates to the animation projects we will try later in the semester.

1. Watch a video on the history of animation: The Animated History of Animation

2. Create a Thumbatrope

3. Research GIF art and animated gifs
GIF Artists:
Kevin Weir
30 Best animated gif artists
Gif artists to know
Mr. Div

Gif pal examples: One, Two, Three, Four, Five

Michelle Mendez Bravo's website

STUDENT examples: Look at these examples from last year

4. Create your own Animated GIF
You can make as many as you like. Be creative and original! Turn in your best gif(s) to the HAND IN WORK folder.

5. Write an artist statement
6. Critique

Extra video: The Story of Animation

CARTOON Yourself:

This project will introduce you to some basic Photoshop tools and using mouse control. We will use Photoshop to trace a digital photo and show an expressive and emotive cartoon face.

Rotoscope
How to Rotoscope Video
Rotoscoped Music Video (Sims, LMG)
Skateboard rotoscope

Cartoon examples 1
Cartoon examples 2

Try it:
If you have extra time, try-
Flipbook Animate
Zimmer Twins Make a Movie
Art Pad
ABC Animate
Piskelapp

Other gif makers:
-- Gifmaker
-- Imgflip
-- CreateMeme