For Independent Projects in Animation II you have the opportunity to come up with your own original projects from scratch. You should plan it out thoroughly so it fits within the timeframe, your abilities, but it's challenging and you're learning as you go. Your goal is to finish it completely before the deadline (usually 8-12 days) which means you will need to plan every detail. EVERY Independent production should include all of the following criteria:

1. Animated Title & Credits
2. Animation(s) with clear purpose or message (always using the principles)
3. Audio
4. Optimized for the Internet
5. Posted to our class network site (Ning) & to your online portfolio

Flash

Animated Story using Flash tools
Cartoon Series
Short Animated Story using Google images
Keyframed progressive painting like Speed painting in Photoshop
Create a unique character(s) using symbols. Animate it Standing up and waving a sign in a short story.
Create character & a Walkcycle
4 legged walkcycle
Create characters & Lipsyncing PA
Use Bone tool for characters walking, running, jumping, or lifting
Buttons
Rotoscoping
Website with animated content such as swfs & gif
animated text like Davidletter Top Ten - Flash Shape Tweening
11secondclub

After Effects

Create experimental effect shorts like these students did!
Create a short film, tv, or news series with effects
Public Announcement with effects
Emulate a movie scene, trailer, or show intro
VideoCoPilot Tutorials
Motion tracking
Rotoscoping
Time-remapping
Character(s) created in Flash or Photoshop, imported, & animated into a short story
Stop-Motion, claymation, chalkamation, white board, etc.
3d effects & typography audio syncing
Fancy Photo Slide Show (.psds imported, layers animated, & 3d effects)
Green Screen techniques such as clayamtion backgrounds
Duik - phonemes
Time Lapse
Short film using Particles (study of physics)
Light Painting Stop-motion

Photoshop

Animated photo .gifs
Screen Recording Speed Painting
Traditional Paper Animation -flour sack (study of mass & volume)

Maya

Create city scene & animate driving through it (1st person perspective)
Create environment and animate a walk through or fly over
Create character, rig it, & animate it
Create props in Maya, print 3d, & Stop-motion
Animate Dominos

Create environment, use asset store, learn basic coding, create game, screen record it for machinima style story

Create a building (interior & exterior) and animate a walk or fly through

Model a head and create 360 rotation