Tuesday, November 7th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Tuesday!

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Blender

Depth of Field in general
- What is it?
- Great (large) vs. Low (shallow)?
- What are the benefits of each?
How to accomplish in Blender
Rack Focus effect
Samples Reduction (you will need to do this to hit your deadlines)
Rendering in viewport (you will need to do this to hit your deadlines)
Testing with Camera Markers

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 Critiques

Each week we will upload our work on Monday as a class. I will then present your work to the class. Every week we will pick a new student to proactive giving constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve. In the professional setting we need to be to talk professionally about the work, even if you don’t “love” the person who created it.

If selected, you will pick 1 thing that works, and 1 thing to improve upon next time. Remember we are separating the Design from the Designer. We are looking for actionable input.

Today Megan will give Constructive Criticism.

11:30 Floating Droid Character Animation Project

We have completed the first 2 phases of Floating Droid pre-production and are now moving into production.

~~Pre-production phase 1: Create and Select Concept Art for Droids~~
~~Pre-production phase 2: Model and rig both Droids, animation tests, and Create Story and Storyboard~~
Production: Creation of Animation

We have our characters ready to animate. We have our story storyboard. Now we make it all happen.

Requirements for your Floating Droid Character Animation:

Follow the story you have established in your pre-production Storyboard
Sound Design it logicaly
Create a first draft of your animation to be shown to the class Thursday by 10:30. Folder copies at 10:30, and we present first drafts to the class leading up to break.
- Viewport rendering is fine for this first draft. Hit. Your. Deadlines.
- Consider denoising as a way to use less samples, and get a good looking final render. Watch for smudging.
- No sound required for 1st draft, but I know a lot of you will have it.
- To get full credit in the First Draft you must have the entire animation completed. Just showing 1 shot and saying “That’s all I have” will mean less than full credit.

Call your file (lastName)FloatingDroids.mp4.

This will be he same file name for your first draft.

First Draft copied down at 10:30 on Thursday and presented immediately.

12:05 Game Day Prep

Aiden and Dylan are going to organize!

Money
Cooking / Baking
Stuff

You do a better job at organizing, the Game Day ends up better.

12:25 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.

12:55 Attendance and Article

1:00 A Gentleman in Moscow

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

Floating Droid Animation
- (lastName)FloatingDroids.mp4
DH11: 10 floating boxes / 5 overlapping
- (lastName)DH11.jpg
Week 11 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg

First Draft of Droid Animation copied down at 10:30 on Thursday and presented immediately.

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.