Assignment: Stickers N' Stuff (50pts) Details: Design your own stickers that could printed. Research printing companies and sizes they use to upload artwork.
September 15-19, 2025 Objective: Placing Graphics for different sizes. Assignments: Business Card, Web Header, Video Title, & Magazine Ad. Description: Use your logo place in each of the design layouts. Download Media Template
Save As: 007_MediaLayouts_XX.ai Save As: 007_MediaLayouts_XX.png
Welcome to Digital Graphics Art Intro. This semester you will be
learning how to use Illustrator, Photoshop, Animate, html, Audio, Film editing
and many other software programs. Digital Graphics takes patience and
practice but can be very rewarding. Each week you will be given an
assignment do the best you can do. All of your assignments will be
placed in an electronic portfolio.
Starter
Every day on the board answer the starter question in the first 5 minutes of class.
1st Day
-Take a picture of yourself
-Write a bio about yourself.
-Write 2 goals for this class.
Assignments
-Disclosure
-Pretest
Illustrator is a Vector based tool used to create
logos, clip art, t-shirt designs, and many other graphics. Learned how
to use the Selection Tool, Moving objects, creating rectangles,
ellipses, changing color of the fill and stroke, Duplicating, rotating.
Went over the Zoom tool, Align, and Pathfinder.
Assignments:
-Disclosure
-Boxes & Shapes
Assignment:(boxes.ai)
Description: Only using boxes and color create a graphic or image.
Assignment 2:(Shapes.ai)
-Draw an image using the shapes tool.
Description: Add a background and other details to your shapes image.
Objective: Create a Google Doc Assignment: About Me Details: Open a new document. take a picture of yourself. Write two sentences about yourself. List two goals you have for this class. List clubs, sports your are in. Example
Assignment: Create a Production Company Intro using Photoshop & After Effects. Choose a video tutorial on Video Copilot to learn something new and incorporate it in you into.
Link: Check out Video Copilot for some cool Tutorials in After Effects. http://www.videocopilot.net/
Assignment: Script, Storyboard, Shot list
Link: Group Film Projects
All Filming will start after you get your Script, Storyboard, Shot list turned in.
Objective: Remove Background Assignment: Green Screen (Extra Credit)
Details: Insert a clip and take out the Green Screen 2021 Down Clip 050621 period 7
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Objective: Create animation effects.
Assignment: Special Effects Description: Download 5 images. Organize them into a folder. Open After Effects and apply effects to your images.
Objective: Edit multiple layers of video Assignment: Create a Production Company Intro using Photoshop & After Effects Details: Layout a background, Name, and Graphic in Photoshop. Import Photoshop file into After Effects to animate for 5 to 10 seconds. Export to movie. Link:https://freemangraphics.weebly.com/film--video.html
Group Film Projects
Assignment: Script, Storyboard, Shot list Description: Choose a prop. Write a script, create a storyboard and shot list. Film your video. Use five different camera angles.
Pre Production
-Script -Storyboard -Shot list
Production
-Filming
Post Production
-Capturing Footage
-Editing
-Exporting
Film Project (300pts)
-50pts (Script, Storyboard, Shot List)
-50pts (Group Intro)
-50pts ( Title, Credits)
-50pts (5 Camera Angles)
-50pts (2 Sound FX)
-50pts (Export video clip)
Editing Skills
Details: Edit video clips
-Create a project folder
Objective: Edit Video Clips Assignment: Re Edit Movie Trailer -100 pts Description: Download and re-edit a movie trailer in iMovie. Find a movie on YouTube then download using a you tube downloader.
Assignment: 5 Sound FX (50 pts) Details: Use sounds library in flash, download or create sound effects in Garage Band. Use .mp3 or .wav files when importing into flash.
Objective: Scene Animation Assignment: Animation Clip Details: Export what you have animated up to this point. Save as: .swf, .mp4, or .mov Click to download Level 1-4
Assignment: Create 5 characters and 5 Backgrounds.
- 5 Characters (50 pts)
- 5 Backgrounds (50 pts) Details: Using scenes, create five different points of view. For example create an establishing shot from a distance, use medium shots, close ups birds eye view, and other angles.
Objective: Draw using shapes and lines. Assignment: Shape Tween Animation 25 pts. Details: Use the drawing tools to draw a background in Animate. Use color and the gradient tool to make it look good. Save As: Shapetween.fla
Objective: Use Graphic Symbols to Animate Assignment: Graphic Symbol (50 pts) Details: Draw an object and convert to a Graphic Symbol. Double click on the symbol and animate on new timeline. Save As: GraphicSymbol.fla
Objective: Animate using the timeline. Assignment: 5 second frame by frame animation. (50 pts) Drawing: Find on notebook or a sticky pad. Create a short frame by frame animation on the corner of 30 pages to make an animation. Flip book Example Details: Use the timeline to create a frame by frame animation. You will need to use the hot key F6 to create a key frame & Shift + F5 to remove key frames. The animation will go for 120 frames which is 5 seconds. Video Tutorial:002 Adobe Animate: frame by frame
Objective: Use Tween to Animate Assignment: Tween Animation (50 pts) Details: Use the timeline to create a tween animation. You will need to
use the hot key F5 to create a frames & Shift + F5 to remove frames. The animation will go for 120 frames which is 5 seconds. Use a minimum of 3 Layers. Video Tutorial:
