WALL-E Observations

Creating the Look of WALL-E

Choose one of the following questions and respond.

1. Choose a main character in the animation "WALL-E". 
2. Describe the character visually.
3. What do we learn about the character from their visual appearance? Describe the personality of the character and how it relates to their visual construction.
4. What is the significance of this character- what roll do they play in the over all story- give an example from the animation.

1. Choose a supporting character in the "WALL-E". 
2. Describe the character visually.
3. What do we learn about the character from their visual appearance? Describe the personality of the character and how it relates to their visual construction.
4. What is the significance of this character- what roll do they support the main character and the over all story- give an example from the animation.

Overall Story-

1. What stands out to you as the central theme in the movie? How is it supported by visuals, give an example.
2. Do you agree with this vision of the future that WALL-E represents? Explain why.
3. This film makes several statements about modern society. How do you feel about the way consumerism is represented?
4. WALL-E is a call to action. What are some ways that you/we could prevent this from happening in real life? 

Save your responses into the share folder with your name.

Opening Sequence of Wall-e

We are going to  preview the opening sequence of Wall-e and make some observations following. Please write down your findings in Word and save it to the "Studentshare" folder with your name.

1. What kind of character is Wall-e? Describe him visually, how does his appearance reflect his character?
2. Describe the landscape.
3. How do they give the sense of a long duration of time?
4. There is no dialogue for the opening sequence, yet there is a lot communicated. Find one example where you learn something about Wall-e without any descriptive words.
5. There are many clues in the opening sequence to hint/forshadow future events and past events. Name 3 and explain what the clue is and what it foreshadows.

Opening Sequence of Wall-E
Wall-e Behind the scenes
Interview with Wall-e director

Animate/Flash Tutorial: Shape Tween

• Open a new flash file (Ctrl+N).
  New Document window will appear
  Select General panel and choose Type: Flash Document . Press OK.
• If your timeline window is not open, press (Ctrl+Alt+T).
• Now you can see a single Layer called "Layer1" in your timeline Window.
  
  
• Select the first frame. Now go to your working area and draw any object. To start off with, may be you can draw a circle.This is going to be your initial object.
  In the above demonstration, my initial object is a short line.
• Select frame 20 and press F6 to insert a new keyframe.
• Still keeping playhead on frame 20, delete the object present in your working area. Now draw a different object, may be a square.
  In the pencil demonstration, we have drawn a long line.
• Select any frame between, 2 to 19 and select Shape from the tween pop-up menu in the Property inspector. Now your Layer will look something like the one shown below.
  
  
• Now press (Ctrl+Enter) to view your motion tween.

Adobe Animate Tutorials

Start learning how to use Adobe Animate. Then develop a simple character and animate it within the frame. 

Animate Drawing Tutorial
2D Animation Tutorials