Tuesday, September 19th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Tuesday!

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Blender

Introduction to Animation

What is a keyframe
What are interpolation modes
How to render to create an mp4
Cycles vs. Eevee (right at break)
You may want to render overnight – how you can do this?

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 Ben will give Constructive Criticism.

11:30 Week 4 Partner Farm Animation & Game Level

The CAWD Project this week will be a partner based project. In groups of two students, one partner will act as an animator in Blender, and one will act as a level designer in Unreal.

You and your partner choose your roles. Groups:

Peyton / Scotty
Sapan / Aiden
Gabby / Tobi
Megan / Otto
Dylan / Mia
Zander / Jace
Phoenix / Elizabeth
Connie / Lee
Sam / Braden
Ben / Tennyson
Isaac / Alex

While you are working on separate deliverables, your team grade will be an average of both your work. It is important that you are helping each other so that both partners earn the “A” so when you average an “A” and an “A” you get … the “A”.

If one partner gets an “A” and lets the other sink by ignoring them, not communicating, not collaborating, than that partner may get an “A”, with their partner getting a “D”, a the average is a “B-“. Grades count when applying to College and CAWD2, you want to build as good a brand for yourself as you can.

Step 1

Get together with your partner and show off your assets and concept art.
Decide what you can use / will use
Decide what else you need to create to build a complete farm scene
Decide if you are going realistic or stylized
Start creating the other supplemental assets

Work with your partner to to model as many assets as you can. Frequently check in with your partner to answer each others questions. It will be faster to help each other than to go through me all the time, as I have to help the entire class.

Step 2 Creating the final products

The Animator (one of you)

Create the Farm scene in Blender using assets from both partners
Create a short animation simply with the camera moving through the scene
Slower the better, with a minimum of 20 seconds in length.
Call your file (lastName)(lastName)FarmAnimation.mp4

The Level Designer (the other one)

Create the Farm scene in Unreal using assets from both partners
Create a short screen cap using OBS (you will learn about this tomorrow) with the 3rd person character moving through the scene
Show off what you created, with a minimum of 20 seconds in length.
Call your file (lastName)(lastName)FarmGameEnvironment.mp4

You should be in constant communication while working with your partner.

If you are a “hi and bye” working relationship with your partner you will do poorly, and others in the class will start to see that you don’t work well in teams, and you will be avoided. Let me tell you a story …

If you lean in to working collaboratively, practicing’s it even if you aren’t amazing yet, you will create a personal brand of someone that people like to work with. Build your brand now. Let me tell you a story …

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

Work on assigned CAWD work, get questioned answered, work on CAWD English, explore and create.

Farm Animation and Game Environment

(lastName)(lastName)FarmAnimation.mp4 – in one partners folder
(lastName)(lastName)FarmGameEnvironment.mp4 – in the other partners folder

DH4: Harvest

(lastName)DH4.jpg

Week 4 Agency

(lastName)Agency_1.jpg
(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.