Thursday, February 9th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Today we will have visitors from MHS:
- First Session (9:40 – 10:05)
  - Josh
  - Joshua
- Second session (10:35 – 11:05)
  - None
Remember the process:
- Form
- Brag x 3
- Hands on / show them how it all works
- Above all – be welcoming
It is important that you are logged out of anything personal when you leave today. CAWD is hosting a new student event tonight and Saturday. Log out of your:
- email
- social media
- Discord
- Spotify
- Amazon
- … everything
We will also put a model of a shark on all of our desktops so we can run these two workshops tonight and Saturday before lunch. Others will be using your machine – log out of everything!
We will also go back to the default mushroom wallpaper for the weekend.

9:40 Attendance and Article

9:45 Week 21 SkillsUSA Work

Each Thursday morning SkillsUSA Design Competition prep work will come out.

By Friday at lunch – create a folder with your two names on the public inside of the weeks “skillsUSA” folder. For example if Matt Smith and Beth Chamberland were working together the folder would be:

“smithChamberland”

Create your folder in the discipline you are working on (game vs. web vs. animation).

Upload all work product to this folder by Friday at lunch. Your work product is assessed and factored into your T&E grade for that week.

Bevins / Lamotte
O’neal / Spofford
Ariel / Noble
Murray / Rice
Bergeron / Brennan

Assignment – vegetible character (with arms and legs) doing jumping jacks.

In this project each partner is to model a cartoon character made from a vegetable (with arms and legs), rig, and animate doing a repetitive jumping jack animation.

Take this as your inspiration.

This will practice:

rapid asset creation based on a theme
rigging / weight painting
animating and setting up loops / managing keyframes

Call your file “(lastName).mp4” and have at least 10 seconds long.

This can be a viewport rendered animation to show us the animation – we don’t care about the visuals yet.

No sound.

Your team will submit 2 mp4’s into your folder.

Bright / Pine
Granger / Aiden
Xavier / Zimmerman
Asa / Eli
Finn / Jered
Brodey / Schuyler
Josh / Ben
Lance / Mimi
Blow / Palagonia

Part 1 – SWOT Analysis

This morning you are going to work with your partner to create a SWOT analysis for your Game Design team.

What are the strengths of your team?
What are the weaknesses you need to you need to work on?
What are the opportunities for this project with your team?
What are the threats to the project being a success?

Working with your partner, create a new Google document with 4 headings:

Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats

Under each heading I want you to list the realities of your team. Be honest, as this document is going to shape the direction of your game. If we can do a team self-assessment and find out that we are really good with programming, then we can push ourselves a bit more with a potential game idea. If we do a team self-assessment and find out that we are really good at Blender, then we may pivot to a more art-based game with less technical elements.

Download as a PDF and upload to your team folder.

Part 2 – Mood board / inspiration

Create a folder called “mood“.

In this folder place at 10 images of an art style / aesthetic you think you want to lean into. Think back to when we created our team based video game levels, we had Asian Temple, Fantasy Library, Space City, and Medieval.

What art style do you think you want your game to go? This is just finding images of inspiration on a style.

Upload your mood folder and images to your team folder.

Part 3 – Game Element

Using the images you put into your mood folder for inspiration, model a game art element for your game in Blender (or Illustrator if doing a 2D game).

Upload as “(lastName)Asset.jpg”. Your team will have two renders in this folder of two different assets.

Emma / Garrett
Sparky / Logan
St. Pierre / Peters
Batres / Mathieson

See Mr. Bohmann’s CAWD2 Dayplan.

10:10 Morning Break (10 minutes)

10 Minute break – you have to exit the room.
When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

10:25 Week 21 SkillsUSA Work

10:45 English

11:35 Week 21 SkillsUSA Work

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.

12:00 Thursday / Saturday event / Log out of Everything + Shark + background

It is important that you are logged out of anything personal when you leave today. CAWD is hosting a new student event tonight and Saturday. Log out of your:
- email
- social media
- Discord
- Spotify
- Amazon
- … everything
Go to the public drive and copy the file called “shark.blend” to the desktop of your machine.
Change the background back to the mushroom

12:45 Attendance and Article

12:50 A Gentleman in Moscow

Follow along as I read; lose yourself in a story for a bit.
One of the strengths of this book are “beautifully rendered scenes“. You will be creating art based off of the text. Listen attentively.

1:10 Afternoon Break (10 minutes)

10 Minute break – you have to exit the room.
When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

1:20 Afternoon Production

Bio
- All work in “bio” folder – starting with “index.html”
Design Homework 21: Shading Practice / Apple
- “(lastName)DH21.jpg”
Week 22 Agency
- “(lastName)Agency_1.jpg”
- “(lastName)Agency_2.jpg”
- “(lastName)Agency_3.jpg”