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BSCC - Week 13 Prep

Next class... NOTE DATE CHANGED TO after 2011
LOCATION AND TIME: TBD Sometimes in Jan

Homework for Week 13

1. Read Chapter 13
2. work on your comic! Let's see some progress! yay
   

Agenda for Week 13

1. Comic Jam! (30 min)
   
2. Discussion about core chapter material (30 min)
3. Break (10 min)
   
4. Peer review of comics (40 min)
5. Plan for next class (10 min)

Note: Do we want to go to the Pixar show during the afternoon of 11/13?
Please respond.

BSCC - Week 12 Prep

Next class...
LOCATION AND TIME: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm @ Red Rock Cafe (10/23/2010)
Last class was awesome.. thanks so much for everyone's feedback on my comic. Can't wait to see everyone's stories thumbnails!

And thanks you Hojo! For his presentation of "Tips for Panel Layouts". Here is a summary that he has kindly written up for everyone's reference: Link here

Homework for Week 12

1. Read Chapter 12
2. Characters Pin ups. (page 146)
3. Continue to work on your thumbnails (page 146)
   
4. Revise your thumbnails (page 166)
   

Agenda for Week 11

1. Comic Jam! (30 min)
   
2. Discussion about core chapter material (30 min)
3. Break (10 min)
   
4. Peer review of thumbs and stories (40 min)
5. Plan for next class (10 min)

Note: Oct 23rd will NOT be the date for our Pixar Concept Art Convention. Our next tentative date is Oct 30th, but we will take a vote during class.

BSCC - Week 11 Prep

Next class...
LOCATION AND TIME: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm @ Red Rock Cafe (10/02/2010)

We got some GREAT stories last week. Awesome.

Homework for Week 11

1. Read Chapter 11
2. Characters Pin ups. (page 146)
3. Continue to work on your thumbnails*

* Some people are working on short comics, some are long... some got different deadlines... etc. At this point, becuase everyone's project is very different, it's gonna be hard to enforce the same schedule on everyone. So work at a pace that is good for you, and bring your work in for peer review. (let's talk about this next week.)

** Chip comic - I finally finished mine.. if u finished yours... idk.. maybe you can bring it in, and we can compare.

Agenda for Week 11

1. Comic Jam! (30 min)
   
2. Discussion about core chapter material (30 min)
3. Break (10 min)
   
4. Peer review of thumbs and stories (40 min)
5. Class discussion and vote: remaining 4 classes of BSCC (10 min)

Discussion points

• Comic Mini Secret Santa Project?
• BSCC FIELD TRIP!!!!? PIXAR CONCEPT ART!
• BSCC remaining class schedule?
• post-BSCC semi regular peer review meets?
• The BSCC Year book project?
  

BSCC - Week 10 Prep

NO class this week. Due to many people not being able to make it this week.

Next class...
LOCATION AND TIME: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm @ Red Rock Cafe (9/25/2010)

we are moving into the FUN part of this class. There is only 5 or 6 more weeks of class, and we will be doing our own short comic! The hw is to think of a story around 6 pages... flush it out and get the thumbs started! (read book for more hw instructions)

Homework for Week 10

1. Read Chapter 10
2. Do Chapter 9 HW (page136)
   

Agenda for Week 9

1. Build up your story a little more ( 20 min)
   
2. Discuss your story! (30 min)
   
3. break (10 min)
   
4. Activity: Play your cards right (60 min) This is a long one.
   

BSCC - Week 9 Prep

Next class...
LOCATION AND TIME: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm @ Red Rock Cafe (9/11/2010)

Last week class was on inking via the "traditional nib pens." And it is the last week that we are working on the kind of painful story about the brat name Chip and his cookie eating ways.

so... starting this coming sat.. we are going to be turning over a new page and be working on "the good stuff": creating our own story.. and then working on it! Yay!

We are moving on from the fundamentals!


Homework for Week 9

1. Read Chapter 9

* Chip comic - you don't have to finish it by this week. You can have an extra week to do it. So please bring it for Sept 18th if your not finished.

Agenda for Week 9

1. HW review (20 min)
   
2. Discussion about core chapter material (10 min)
3. Activity: Analyze this Page 132 (20 min)
4. Break (10 min)
   
5. Activity: TV Writer Page 135 (40 min)
6. Going over the next HW Page 136 (10 min)

I won't be there this weekend. Will be camping. =( so sad
Notes for Mike:

1. HW review guide is on page 242. If someone put in the time to do this assignment, it was painful. So the least we can do is to really give them the time during class to critique the work.
2. This chapter's material should not be "news" to anyone. So it can be quick to review. Just an open discussion of "after thoughts" would be good
3. Same as number point 2. Should be an casual open discussion
4. break...
5. TV Writer, I think the key the book is pushing is repetition. I know if Steve if there, it will be tons of fun. Have fun!
6. IMPORTANT: This is the first stage of a project that will last through the end of the book. So don't f it up.. or u will be suffering for a looooong time.
   

For reference:
http://dw-wp.com/2010/03/teaching-guide-chapter-9/ (MIKE READ IT)
http://dw-wp.com/2010/03/chapter-9-structuring-story/

BSCC - Week 8 Prep

IMPORTANT: no class this week!!! (8/28th)

Next class...
LOCATION AND TIME: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm @ Red Rock Cafe (9/04/2010)

Many people could not make it to the previous class, and many other people also might not be able to make it to class this week. So as a result, the Week 8 class is going to be pushed back to Sept 4th.

It will give people who missed last week a chance to catch up, and get feedback on their thumbs.

Homework for Week 8

1. Complete Ch 6 HW: Thumbnails. (if you have not already done so)
2. If you like some feedback on this, please post up your pictures on the forums
   
3. When you are happy with your thumbs, complete CH7 HW.
   
4. Read Chapter 8
5. Bring in any tools or WIP stuff to share your inking process with your fellow comic students! Let's learn from each others' processes!
   

Note: OK.. people have different processes for doing a comic and different ways for inking. It's cool if you really don't want to follow the way described in the book. Just do your process, and bring in the work in progress from that.

Extra Credit:
Do the activity in Ch 7. Here is a very cool examples from here

Agenda for Week 7

1. HW review.. (30 min)
2. Discussion about core chapter (30 min)
3. Break (10 min)
4. Show and Tell: your inking tools/process (30 min)
5. Activity: sharing inking tools (20 pm)

Activity:
I'm going to modify the activity. Bring in some pencil drawings of single panels. They can be copies or your fav panel from our Chip Sunday Comic or just about anything. And we will spend 20 min inking them, while sharing other people's inking tools. I will try to bring in my set of pens. So people can check them out... please do the same if you can =)

For those that ink digitally, hmmm... i really wanna chance to see how that works.. but i guess it would be hard to do in a cafe setting. I guess we could just talk about it... =\

Reference:
http://dw-wp.com/2010/03/teaching-guide-chapter-8/
http://dw-wp.com/2010/03/chapter-8-inking-the-deal/

some sample thumbnails of the Chip comic:

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