Monday, October 18th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Welcome to Week 9 – back to normal 5 day weeks until Thanksgiving.
Two weeks until Halloween!
Today we are going to have a required bus drill to learn how to get off a school bus in an emergency. Lets just go, do it, and get to break. Ever so slightly adjusted break.
Jackie you are giving Constructive Criticism today, Matt you are going tomorrow.
We all need to get DH9 done today so tomorrow we can use it with our partners. If you don’t finish today, finish as homework and bring in tomorrow.

9:40 Attendance and Article

9:45 15 Minutes of Production

Week 8 CAWD Project: Low Poly Game Environment
- “(lastName)ForestWalkthrough.mp4”
Week 8 Agency (Blender / Unreal / Premiere)
- “(lastName)Agency_1.jpg” through “(lastName)Agency_3.jpg” at 720p
- … or …
- “(lastName)Agency.mp4” at 720p
Design Homework 8 – Inktober
- “(lastName)DH8.jpg”

10:25 Bus Evacuation Drill

That’s a long 15 minutes.

10:40 Morning Outside Break (10 minutes)

10 Minutes outside / just out our door.
Throw the Frisbee, toss the football, kick the kickball, or just get some Vitamin D and not be at a desk.

10:50 Class Critiques

Jackie will be giving constructive criticism today. Pick out one thing that works, and one thing to improve upon in the future.

11:35 DH9 – Partner Based Haunted Graveyard Level Concept Art

Leading up to Halloween, over the next two weeks you are going to be working with a partner to develop a Haunted Graveyard level in Unreal. This will be something we can play and explore as a video game environment.

This is going to practice:

Working in teams
- Lead Artist
- Lead Level Designer
Stylistic/theme choices and then being consistent. Do you want to go low poly, do you want to go realistic? Pick a lane, stay in the lane.
Asset creation in Blender, and exporting for game engines.
Terrain / world creation in Unreal. Importing external assets.
Meeting deadlines with correct deliverables.

Over the next two weeks we are going to cover:

Changing lighting in Unreal from default “noon”-ish look.
Fog
Extended material creation and application in Blender and Unreal
Audio in game
Removing the default character / changing the default “gun” to something else. Flashlight?
etc.

The first thing we have to complete by the end of the day today is DH9. You are going to create a page of concept art of what the idea of “Haunted Graveyard” means to you. You are going to learn who your partner is tomorrow and you are going to need to have an initial designers meeting to decide the aesthetic, roles, and general direction of the project.

What art style do you want, realism or stylized low poly?

Are we in 2021, or the past, like Salem Witch trials time period?

Are we urban, are we in the country?

Is it an abandoned cemetery? Functional with open graves being dug with lanterns?

Are we in a valley, on a mountain top? Are we in the middle of a city block without use of terrain?

What types of assets would you add in?

Lanterns?
Shovels?
Bodies?
Gravestones / both upright and broken down?
Carriage to carry bodies?
Fences?
Mausoleums?
Trees / forests?
Buildings?
etc

Remember that this will be at night, and the goal is that we get a genuinely scary or spooky vibe.

Fill up a piece of paper with design language, items, environments, colors, words – all so when you meet with your partner tomorrow you are ready to begin. You don’t want your first impression to your partner to be “I didn’t finish it” – who do you want to be in the picture? Let’s try to have 50/50 division of labor for this project! Partners come out tomorrow…

Finish today by lunch, or in the PM.

This will be presented for grade a week from today, as “(lastName)DH9.jpg”. Scan it in by next week. Everyone should finish this before pivoting to work on Agency work in the afternoon.

12:15 Lunch (30 Minutes)

No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.

12:45 Attendance and Article

12:50 Guided Practice

1:10 Afternoon Outside Break (10 minutes)

10 Minutes outside / just out our door.
Throw the Frisbee, toss the football, kick the kickball, or just get some Vitamin D and not be at a desk.

1:20 Afternoon Production

Work on any of your CAWD work:

DH9 – Haunted Graveyard Preproduction
- “(lastName)DH9.jpg”
Week 9 Agency (Blender / Unreal / Premiere)
- “(lastName)Agency_1.jpg” through “(lastName)Agency_3.jpg”
- … or …
- “(lastName)Agency.mp4

Get DH9 done first so we can use it tomorrow with your partner!