Monday, February 6th

Class hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Bohmann
wbohmann@ewsd.org

Week Twenty Two

Today’s Notes

Today is an EHS B Day
Visitors from SBHS coming tomorrow…
Feb. 10: Last day to register for the March 11th SAT’s
Feb. 14: VSAC Scholarship applications due
NTHS Assembly at 10am today for new members only, returning members will be notified
- Schuyler
- Hayden
- Garrett
SkillsUSA is going to kick off later this week – what might you be interested in?
- Wed Design
- Animation
- Game Dev
SkillsUSA Pin Design Finalists:

9:45 Monday Mailbag

9:50 Animation Project – The PSA

Contest : #SafeDrivesSaveLivesVT – Deadline March 31st!
Hosted by the Vermont Highway Safety Alliance

Over the next couple weeks we are going to tackle an animation project. If you do well, not only will you improve your modeling and animations skills (and get a good grade). Last year they gave out nearly $3000 in prizes. We had two winners last year and three winners the year before that!

What: Create a 25 second YouTube video on the dangers of distracted driving.
This is a PSA – Public Service Announcement.

The goal is to produce a video that will engage new drivers and highlight the dangers of distracted driving. We will make ours a 3D Animation.

Details: Found on the Vermont Highway Alliance website

Schedule & Details

Each of you will be responsible for creating five assets that will be modeled in Blender. Everyone will be responsible for a road sign and a car (you can go so many ways here – from cartoony to high level detail)

Assets will be deposited in a community Google Folder – CAWD2 – SafeDrivesSaveLivesVT
Once assets are in the community folder, they are free for you to grab and use.

A quick note on your assets:

models will be plain – no materials/textures
Each asset will be accompanied by a jpeg of that asset (no materials) and blend file
- filename: lastname_modeltype.jpg example:Bohmann_StopSign.jpg
- filename: lastname_modeltype.blend example:Bohmann_StopSign.blend
Finally, one jpg render of all five assets on a plane with materials
- filename:Bohmann_assets.jpg

You will select items you need or want to build your animation. Once you take them, they are yours to modify and change. Don’t complain if you don’t like the modeling.

From the assets, you will assemble a PSA on the dangers of distracted driving. There are many stylistic approaches you can take for your PSA. Good PSA’s have three qualities in common:

Gets the audience to pay attention
Message is clear and easy to understand
Message is supported by facts about the issue

The audience understands how others are affected by the issue -( the impact on others )

Our rough schedule

Week 22 – February 6th – 10th

Intro to Project
Discussing StoryArc and PSAs
Asset Modeling
Story ideas

Week 23 – Feb 13th – 17th

Storyboarding
Asset Modeling
Scene and set design

Week 24 – Feb 20th – 24th

Character Rigging
Camera Rigging / Set Up
Sound Design
First looks Showcase

Week 25 – March 8th – 10th

Animatics (preliminary version of your project with sound)

Week 25 – March 10th – 17th

Lighting
Second Looks and feedback

Week 26 – March 17th – 24th – Publishing

Final Editing
Publishing

Pre Production

Asset Brainstorm – you’ve already started

Commit to five assets you want to create. Everyone must make a road sign and a car, so that leaves you with 3 other choices to create.

To Start: Divide Paper into 6 squares. Use five of the squares to sketch out your asset pack. Put your name and any other design details in the 6th square. The is pre-production. Pre-Production is Essential. There is a good chance you have this work done already – we started a couple weeks ago.

Your goal is to complete your Pre-Production sketches by Tuesday so you can begin modeling. Show me your sketches before you open Blender.