Thursday, February 8th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Thursday!
Early lunch today connected to English.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Week 22 Skills Production

Thursday and Friday we will have time for SkillsUSA production. We are going to get into more and more team based work where you need to practice working together.

This week the animation teams are going to learn about shape keys, how to use them, and then get hands on practice. Each animator will get the chance to learn about and practice shape keys, specifically using them for facial animations.

Your team will need to:

Model a face – face only, say neck up (1 face for both partners – maybe 1 partner does it?)
Learn how to use shape keys in Blender (maybe 1 partner learns and teaches the other?)
Submit two animations, 1 per animator, that demonstrate the following emotions:
- Happy
- Angry
- Sad
- … something like this. Each animator will do their own animation and creative work with shape keys.
Render at 1080p.

Save your files as:

lastNameShapeKeys.mp4
- … and …
lastNameShapeKeys.mp4

Our schedule:

Jan 25, 26 – GDD / STOT / Mood Board
Feb 1,2 – Work and document with Alpha testing as our next deliverable.
(CURRENT) Feb 8,9 – Work and document with Alpha testing as our next deliverable.

You have to be ready for me to play your game next week for Alpha Testing. I will need to see all the deliverables listed below. Remember that you can download free assets, and that as a competition we are really pushing you to think about story and gameplay – this is NOT a modeling and animation challenge.

Feb 15,16 – Alpha Testing and Feedback. This is an early test, conducted after the development phase but before Beta testing. It’s considered a form of internal acceptance testing. Mr. Cronin will play each of your games on Thursday the 15th and Friday the 16th. I must have a playable character to “be”, a world to interact in, and a reason to do what we are doing. This is more than just a level demo – we should start seeing basic gameplay mechanics (collection, opening, exploring, etc.)
Feb 22, 23 – Work and document with Beta Testing as our next deliverable.
March 7,8 – Work and document with Beta Testing as our next deliverable.
March 14,15 – Beta Testing and Feedback. Mr. Cronin will play each of your games on the 15th. You must have all that you had in Alpha testing, now with sound, a complete 1st level, UI elements, and an achievable goal. This is your MVP – or Minimum Viable Product to pitch to the judges. If the judges walked in the door we should be able to sell our game to them this week.
March 21, 22 – Create Game Trailer for judging (OBS + Premiere + Sound Design)
March 28, 29 – Create and practice 10 minute presentation for juding.
Thursday April 4th – Vermont State Design Competitions!

You are going to create your team folder and document what you have done. Make it as easy as possible for me to learn what you have done through file names, through notes put on images, etc. It is up to your team to impress me with progress and documentation of this weeks work by 12:25 Friday.

You may find that you have to work on this outside of Thursday and Friday to hit the Alpha and Beta milestones. That is expected.

See Mr. Bohmann’s CAWD2 Dayplan.

10:50 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.

11:00 English

11:55 Lunch

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.

12:25 Attendance and Article

12:30 Week 21 Skills Production

1:00 Steve Jobs Biography

Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.

1:20 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.

1:30 Speed Design

Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.

1:45 Afternoon Practice & Production

Band with Float
- Folder called “band”
Absolute Positioning Practice
- Folder called “absolute”
DH22: Glass
- (lastName)DH22.jpg
Week 22 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg

Skills work due tomorrow at 12:25!

2:20 Dailies

2:25 “19 Minutes”

4 of 5 days per week we will end our day in CAWD with the “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:

Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
Unplug

At 2:44 each day I will come to 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened in your story over that day’s reading session. It is neat to hear little pockets of a story, here and there.