Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:19:17 -0600 (CST)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-088-12-spring@uni.edu
Subject: Pineapple tutorial part 2 is ready - only 12 1/2 minutes...

Hi 088 VE, A and MG students,

The 2nd part of the pineapple project video is ready, so you should watch 
that soon, even if you don't get to that part of the assignment until much 
later.  It is only 12 minutes and 27 seconds long and 15 seconds of that
is Coyote and Road Runner cartoon footage.

       http://www.uni.edu/jacobson/AE/pine/pineapplePart2.html

The earliest this first After Effects project would be due would be
Friday February 5th.  It might be due on Friday 02/05, but we will see for 
sure when class meets on Friday.

There is a handout that goes with the PINEAPPLE animation project.  It was 
handed out in class today.  You will need to get it on Friday if you 
missed today.

You will be able to just email me the AE project file as an attachment so 
I can grade the COMPOSITION that is part of the .aep project file.
You will NOT need to Render it out and upload it to sunny.uni.edu, as it 
will be a few more weeks before we have the time to spend in class on 
sunny.uni.edu and rendering to FLV flash video, etc. so everyone can 
do that.  Or TRY to do that, I should say.  Don't worry, every semester I 
help quite a few students or just accept attachments but everyone finally 
gets it okay by themselves by the 12th or so week.

The 2nd ever video lesson using Camtasia is only 12 1/2 minutes long, but 
it has lots of content.  You will need to pause it quite a few times 
because I learned enough Camtasia to add some extras to it.

You should be through with Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 of the After Effects 
Apprentice book by next Monday or Tuesday.  Focus on the material that 
rings a bell because it has been emphacized in class and/or helps you
understand the material on the web page and in these video tutorials.

     QUIZ ONE is next Wednesday - February 3rd.

You don't have to do everything in lesson 1 and lesson 2, but you should 
open up the AE projects and do some AE exercising by trying out different 
things the book has you do to learn AE.  After all, you are apprentices, 
right?

     http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/weeks1thru5.html

     http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/

     Mark

       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/03/JonKrasnerChap7.pdf

       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/03/pineappleAEpart1.html

       http://www.uni.edu/jacobson/AE/pine/pineapplePart2.html