Tuesday, October 24th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Tuesday!
I am letting you out 5 minutes early today as I have to get my Covid shot in the gym. I am not letting you out early – do we understand?
OK – who will demo?
Jace you and Otto need to connect at break, maybe sit in hallway and talk? If not, Otto will be doing all the planning and Jace you will just have to do what you are told… scan the info you have to submit before break.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Blender

Classic “Ball Bouncing Animation” test – not a real test, but a practice project
Let’s refine with our keyframes and the curve editor
How can you apply this knowledge to future projects?

10:35 Unreal

A quick review of yesterday’s night workflow. Forget the stars – Megan figured them out anyway – if you want stars, go to Megan.

Fire
Sound (attenuation)
Ctrl+L based lighting adjustments

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 Braden will give Constructive Criticism.

11:30 Halloween Partner Work

This week we are going to lean into Halloween – one of the most visually interesting and fun events of the year. You are going to work in partners.

Theme

For all projects you will use a Halloween themed art style. Your group will choose from:

Genuinlely scarry
Campy
… just like our Design Homework this week.

You and your partner are going to decide today; once you make your decision you have to stick with it.

Your team is going to pick one of two career roles to focus on this week:

Option 1: Level designers with interactive mechanic

If your team selects this option you will work in Unreal to create a Halloween themed, interactive game element. You will create art elements in Blender to bring into Unreal. You will be combining art and interactivity.

You are not creating an entire level. You are creating an interactive game element, and how hard you push yourself to tinker and learn new code (as well as apply what we already have learned) will lead to your grade. Game art and interactive elements are the key this week.

You will record the game footage with OBS and bring into Premiere to Sound Design.

Some possible examples:

Haunted Mansion gate that opens and closed when “used” (E)
Graveyard with lampposts that turn on / off when “used” (E)
Crypt with fire effects that turn on / off when “used” (E – but it could be any key for all of these)

If you choose this option the first information I need is:

What is your art style?
Who is lead Game Asset creator?
Who is lead programmer?
What is the interactive element you are going to create?

As a final product you will create a sound designed trailer called (lastName)(lastName)HalloweenGame.mp4.

Option 2: Animator with sound designer

Create a halloween themed character animation. This animation must be sound designed.

You can use Andy, or you can create some custom Halloween themed characters (don’t use our floating droids from DH8, that is next week). Just remember that this is not a character modeling project – it is a character animation project.

If you choose this option the first information I need is:

What is your art style?
What is your story in 1 sentence?
Who is the Creative Director for the animation?
Who is the animation editor and Sound Designer?

As a final product you will create a sound designed trailer called (lastName)(lastName)HalloweenAnimation.mp4.

Partners

Perrotte / Barber
Peyton / Statnic
Bergeron / Companion
Bullard / Miller
Costello-Terifay / Wells
Coutrayer / Martin
Fiozzo / Pradhan
Ingadottir-May / Little
Simpson / Zimmerman
Stevenson / Mabley-Ward
Thurman / Underhill

Get to it! I need the required information from all teams before we go to lunch.

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

Halloween Partner Work

(lastName)(lastName)HalloweenGame.mp4
… or …
(lastName)(lastName)HalloweenAnimation.mp4

DH9: Halloween Themed

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Week 9 Agency

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(lastName)Agency_2.jpg
(lastName)Agency_3.jpg

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.