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Assignment: Create a animated trading card for a movie.
I decided to use this as one of my design assignments. I feel like it is some thing each one of us should do this summer. My trading card is the sun from “Midnight Sun.”
Inspired by Andy Forgrave—as I so regularly have been recently—I tried my hand at an animated ds106zone trading card. I cooked up a quick 4 star example of the animated movie trading card assignment for the beginning of many ds106zone trading cards. You better believe that I, like Andy, will be coming back to this one. I used my own card template, but Andy’s is much better so when I have time I will be re-doing his vertical template, as well as create a landscape version. I’ll save them both as an XCF card template file for GIMP for anyone to use. What’s more, it may come in useful alongside this tutorial for how you can approach this assignment using GIMP.
4 stars (that’s 16 if you round up, baby!)
Inspired by Andy Forgrave—as I so regularly have been recently—I tried my hand at an animated ds106zone trading card. I cooked up a quick 4 star example of the animated movie trading card assignment for the beginning of many ds106zone trading cards. You better believe that I, like Andy, will be coming back to this one. I used my own card template, but Andy’s is much better so when I have time I will be re-doing his vertical template, as well as create a landscape version. I’ll save them both as an XCF card template file for GIMP for anyone to use. What’s more, it may come in useful alongside this tutorial for how you can approach this assignment using GIMP.
4 stars (that’s 16 if you round up, baby!)
Here is another addition to the “Movie Trading Cards—now with more animation!” assignment. Sorry for the dark subject matter of this one, but John Carpenter’s vision of urban gangs and thug life in Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) was even scarier for me then his vision of the lunatic slasher in Halloween (1978). Interested in doing this assignment for ds106? —check out the tutorial.
Just finished up my Animated Movie Trading Cards tutorial, and I figured I’d share my most recent creation that was made alongside documenting the tutorial. It’s inspired by the mad genius of David Cronenberg’s early films. This is one of the most disturbing visions Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) has in the film wherein he sees a potential future wherein the kid he is tutoring (along with his friends) falls through the ice while playing hockey. I can see a whole series of these for several more scenes from The Dead Zone (not to mention Rabid, Scanners, Shivers, The Brood, and I’ll throw in Videodrome for good measure) in my future. It’s hard to compete with early Cronenberg, and this image I came across on Tumblr today says it all!
I thought the Animated Movie Trading Cards assignment was an awesome idea. I had the idea to do this earlier, when I saw the Movie Trading Cards assignment, because Michael Branson Smith’s Dirty Dozen GIFs would have been a natural fit. But instead of going with that, I decided to do creepy ventriloquist dummies. Here we have Hugo, the granddaddy of them all, from The Dead of Night. Note the poster on the link, with the advertising tag line: “the critics hugged it!” Also, from the film Devil Doll, is another Hugo, and for those without a taste for black and white, there’s Fats from the 70s film, Magic. Since they’re dummies, I thought I’d go with a For Dummies motif. Did you know there’s a Ventriloquism for Dummies book? Me neither. If Talky Tina is looking for a toyfriend, she has a few to choose from.
Inspired by the Sno-Cat movie trading card for The Shining, I started messing around with how I could do this in GIMP. While playing I started to think, why can’t we animate the movie scenes? A few hours later I figured it out and I’m currently working on a tutorial—I already submitted a new assignment for this in the Animated GIF category. There are a few things I need to clean up, like adding the trademark information below the Flamethrower title and making the card look a bit worn. Above is my first experiment with one of my all-time favorite films The Thing (1982)—and if you know the film you know how important the flamethrower truly is!
Playing on the ds106 design assignment “Movie Trading Cards,” which basically asks you to make a trading card for a scene from your favorite movie. With this assignment we are asking you to take it a step further and animate it!
