Image scanning, editing and formatting workshops in 2619.

This Monday is an Animal Book work-in-progress check in.  We will meet in the studio/lab (Lab 2, 2223) at 10:00 am.  Bring your Animal Books with you as well as the drawings you did at Cabela’s.  An updated check list for the Animal Book is posted on Moodle.  Pay attention to the assignments for visual, cultural and natural history research-we will be looking at those in particular.

In addition to updating your Animal Book, review your notes and readings and select words to add to the eBestiary Lexicon.  On Monday, each of you will be responsible for submitting 5 words not duplicated by others.  This means that you should develop a list of considerably more than 5 in case others have found the same words as you.  Accompany each word with its definition, the source of the definition and a sentence using the word that helps clarify its meaning.  Include a citation for where you first read the word if that is different from the source of the definition.

Finally, note that the due date for completed Character Animation sequences is now Thursday, May 17th (not Tuesday the 15th).

For the Tuesday May 8th animation workshop, bring all the artwork you have made so far for the sequences, as well as drawing tools.

We have added a short reading to this weeks’ list: Boria Sax “Animals as Tradition”, pp 270-277 in The Animals Reader.  (Note that the Descartes and de Montaigne texts were read for seminar week 3 instead of week 4.)

Reminders: Bring your Animal Books for the work-in-progress critique Monday morning, and add your animal info page to the Animal Wall in our studio if you haven’t done that already (it was due today, Thursday, 4/19).

If you signed up as a van driver, or alternate driver on the field trip, you need to have gotten your College driving permit by Monday.

Note that we added a short essay by Angela Carter, “Animals in the Nursery” to our readings due next Thursday.  The pdf of this is on Moodle.

We’ve added a new resource page to the blog, attached to the Assignments page, that has links to interesting animation and drawing related sites and images.  We’re choosing things that might help you with your drawing, animation and Animal Book assignments.  We’ll be adding material to this page as the quarter goes on.

For those of you who need it, there is a pdf of John Berger’s Why Look at Animals now on line in week one.