12 Principles of Animation

For our June meeting, Emmalee Pearson will be discussing fundamental principles of animation. Emmalee is a Visual Communications Instructor at Madison Area Technical College, and the Art Director of Studio Ronin. At MATC she teaches design, animation, and special effects. She is also the writer and director of The Avengables animated series. To learn more, please check out these links below:

http://theavengables.com/
https://madisoncollege.edu/program/visual-communications

Our "book club" topic is core aesthetics!
There is an overview video here: https://youtu.be/uepAJ-rqJKA and deeper reading available at http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/MDA.pdf — points to ponder include how you might use the concept of Core Aesthetics to trim your game's scope down to the essentials, to differentiate your games from others on the market, or to identify what audiences your game will appeal to.

As usual, we will have some time after the presentation for play-testing and socializing. Hope to see you there!