Tuesday, March 12th

Class hours: 10:05 – 2:45
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Welcome to Week 26

Student Leadership Meeting -Thursday 11:55(ish) in M116

10:10 Monday Mail on a Tuesday

10:12 PSA Project – Timeline Revisit

Week Twenty Six
Wednesday, March 13th – First Looks at a rough animation – Animatic
Camera, Asset Placement, Audio (don’t forget to include audio
Fine tuning assets
Wednesday, March 20th – Second Looks– This should be an EEVEE render that is a tighter version of your Wednesday animatic. Second looks should include materials, sound AND your facts, figures.

2D Lip Sync Project Overview

The goal of this project is to continue exploring the 2D workspace in Blender, practice working with audio and use your creative skills to push your animations. This project is not due for awhile as we are ramping up with Skills and finishing the PSA.

What we are working for is a LipSync battle. Our lip sync battles will take place the week after Skills. This way if you have some down time from the PSA and Skills prep, you can work on your LipSync.
For those that need exact dates – the due date will be April 10th – A Wednesday.

This entire project will be completed in Blender using the video editor tools.

We are going to create some original characters and then set them in an appropriate setting to perform a 20 second Lip Sync. I’ve linked some samples above.

For this project, you are going to need several assets.

A piece of music in .mp3 form (don’t worry about copyright – we are going all out)
A character(s) / backgrounds inked out in 2D workspace
A reference image for common vowel sounds (google mouth shapes) Results

To minimize problems, I am going to advise you to incorporate 1 Grease Pencil object (blank).

After you add your blank stroke, move it to it’s own collection. In this collection you will create the mouthshapes.

then on your other stroke layer create:

background layers for your scene
layers for your character
Remember, layers are important – anything you want to animate should be it’s own layer

By the end of this week you should have:

Your music selected and downloaded as an .mp3 , reliable tool
Begin building your scene (you can also model in 3D and render as image to get the right perspective, shadows and staging)
Create your character (or have a good idea of your character)
Tackle the Mouthshapes
You’ll notice from the examples that the best ones include more than the mouth animation.

I’ll demo adding audio in Blender and using the video sequencer to scrub and sync to mouth shapes. Save often and do check your layers carefully (which layer you are on).

Headphones will make everyone happier!