Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

• Wednesday!
• 3 more days – until Friday at 2:05 – to present any missing work. I will accept partially done projects for partial credit – better than zeros! Then the Q1 zeros are zeros F O R E V E R.
• Today is a White day – no CTE academic classes.
• Certain EHS students are leaving for lunch early today at 11:55 due to your early release schedule.

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Spirit Week!

• Monday is Comfy Day – Wear your comfortable clothes and footwear.
• Tuesday is Tropical Tuesday – wear clothing that represents summer: warm weather and sunshine! Hawaiian shirts, Hawaiian Leis, Sunglasses, etc. 
• Wednesday is Diversity Day. Express your cultural heritage and/or identity. Let’s celebrate our uniqueness.
• Thursday is Retro Day – or Throwback Thursday – dress from another decade in history.
• Friday is Halloween Costume Day – Have fun and dress up. There will be a costume contest on Friday in room M116 between 11:45 to 12:30, so stop by and show the Student Leadership Panel your awesome costume and maybe win a prize!

9:40 Attendance

9:45 Blender

• Hand keying items to go with animated content. Faking the illusion of “picking up” an object.
• Problems with this method.
• Object Constraints
• Let’s use an animation Constraint – Child Of – to solve this problem …… argh!

10:00 Wednesday AM Blender Challenge

I am man / professional / adult enough to know what I am beat. I just can’t figure it out. I have tried. I just can’t do it.

So here is the Challenge: we know what we want to do. We know we want to use the “Child of” constraint, as this is what is is made for. We know that this will be super helpful in working with character animation. I just don’t know how to make it work.

I just want the crane to pick up the gold at “A”, bring it to “B”, release it, and then the crane resets. That’s it.

Your challenge – figure it out.

If you can figure it out, and teach me how to do it, so I can teach the class I will give you the following:

1. Removal of any Q1 grade in your gradebook that is pulling down your grade.
2. The ability to say “nah” to a guided practice pass / fail activity.
3. An hour lunch.
4. A John Groban CD (in Spanish).
5. A TD Bank Elf Hat.
6. Your choice of Quarter 2 seat – anywhere you want.

This type of problem will pop up in industry, its part of real life, sometimes you have to pool brains together to figure it out. How can you learn how to correctly use Child Of?

• Here is the official documentation.
• Here are a bunch of short videos on YouTube that explain it.
• Any way you can learn it, and teach me, is fair game.

Go!

10:35 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.

10:45 Wednesday AM Blender Challenge

If it beats you too… its ok, we fail together. Pivot to Graveyard work.

Let’s say that by 11:35 we all pivot to the Graveyard Final Draft.

11:35 2 Week Partner Haunted Graveyard Level – Final Draft

Check back to the Tuesday dayplan for specifics.

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

• Final Graveyard Project
  • “(lastNames)GraveyardFinal.mp4”
• DH10 – Free Sketch
  • “(lastName)DH10.jpg”
• Week 10 Agency (Blender / Unreal / Premiere)
  • “(lastName)Agency_1.jpg” through “(lastName)Agency_3.jpg”
  • … or …
  • “(lastName)Agency.mp4

1:55 Dailies

2:00 Dismissal