Wednesday, December 13th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Wednesdays! Compressed schedule! Callbacks:
- Ben to Public Issues @ 12:25
Today we are hosting visitors from 10:30 – 11. As always start with the form if you want to farm that extra credit. Students working with visitors today:
- Tobi
- GABEEEEEEEEE … okok, Gabi.
- Megan
- Tennyson
- Peyton
Very early break to accommodate our visitors – no you aren’t kicked out of the AM this break.
Pin Design Feedback – let this help you while improving from Version 1 to Version 2.
Work graded – let’s get missing work in today with only 1 letter deduction.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Expectations for the 10:30 – 11:00 window of time

Work on your Pin Design
Work on your Agency
Work on your Design Homework
Look at the 11:30 and start thinking about your first connected character
Missing Work
Keep volume low – the only students we should be hearing are those working with visitors

10:20 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.

10:30 Working with Visitors / AM Production

Work on your Pin Design
Work on your Agency
Work on your Design Homework
Look at the 11:30 and start thinking about your first connected character
Missing Work
Keep volume low – the only students we should be hearing are those working with visitors

11:00 Blender

Super quick review of Armature
Super quick review of Texture Paint
Super quick review of Weight painting

11:30 Connected Character

This week in CAWD you are going to create your own custom character.

I am going to give you as designers a longer and longer leash as we move through our character creation and rigging process. What I will say is this character will be used in a January Character animation in … January.

Last year I kept the students on rails and required:

Environment (Coral Reef / Underwater Scene)
Character (Fish)

Let’s see an example of a class project this year based on these constraints.

This year I am going to open it up a big and require:

Environment (Not required as of yet – but your character you build this week will determine your environment)
Character (Whatever you would like – remember that you are creating a story around your character)

You are going to create your story, your scene – you have full creative control.

This week you are going to:

Come up with a custom character. If you think Aliens like above, your Environment and Character Animation will be sci-fi. If you pick a Zombie, your Environment will likely be Zombie friendly. If you choose to create something light and airy, your Environment will reflect that. Your first idea may not be the best idea!
Model your Character
Texture (consider using texture paint?)
Rig using an Armature – I would recommend the armature be connected to an Animation Controller at the end to control it.

Deliverables:

(lastName)Character_1.jpg
(lastName)Character_2.jpg
(lastName)Character_3.jpg
(lastName)CharacterHappyGreeting.mp4 – Minimum of 5 second animation where your character is greeting / acknowledging the camera. This will demonstrate that your character is ready to animate in the future.

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 Steve Jobs Biography

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

12:45 Afternoon Practice & Production

Connected Character
- (lastName)Character_1.jpg
- (lastName)Character_2.jpg
- (lastName)Character_3.jpg
- (lastName)CharacterHappyGreeting.mp4
DH15: 10 Floating Boxes in 3 Point Perspective / 5 Overlapping
- (lastName)DH15.jpg
Week 15 Agency / Pin Design 2nd Draft
- lastNamePin_V2.jpg (make sure you keep the AI file)
  - … or …
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg