Workshop in E L A S T I C Movie Time
 October 27th, 1997
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A Story World That Knows You

Class Discussion:

2 PM: Speaker TBA
Approaches to agency: narrative type, audience profiling and tracking
Character Animation
Alex Kim, Visualization, drawing and cell animation
Brian Bradley, state of the weather.
Yu Chen, Shoes as Character

Assignment for November 3rd:

Continue working on last week's assignment: Part 1: for class discussion on Nov 3) Create a backstory, purpose and motivation for your character. Prototype a character dialog in the Character Maker;
Part 2: for presentation on Nov 16) Integrate this piece with a visual animation for your character. Translate the dialog into expressive text for the character, possibly using Wigglet.

Readings and Viewings for November 3rd:

  • K. Brooks, "Do Story Agents Use Rocking Chairs?" Student prize for best paper at ACM Multimedia 96
  • Ryan, Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
  • John Preston Isenhour, "The Effects of Context and Order in Film Editing