Animation Charades

tl;dr How can we communicate with extremely simple animation? Maybe this silly group game will help us practice.

1. Download and open this simple TouchDesigner network
2. Break up into two teams.
3. Take ten minutes to have each member write down simple emotions, characteristics, adjectives that one could possibly animate with a single circle and static color. Write each example on a card and place it face down in a pile on your side of the table.
4. Alternating teams every round, one “animator” selects a card from the other team’s pile and has 15 seconds to think about how they can animate the card using only color and motion of a single circle.
5. Teams have 1 minute to guess what was on the card.

BONUS After round-play, choose one of the most successful animations and try to plot the xy coordinates of the animation.