Tuesday, February 20th

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

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Week 24 – Vacation is coming…

Multilingual/Multicultural Affinity Group – Wednesday – 11:45 – 12:45pm

Three Visitors Today – so late break at 10:55 – 11:05am

Nick
Jerry
Aiden

Sign up for Bake-Off – Friday – cookie, brownie – love to have your participation – bragging rights only as CAWD (first year) is not going to compete. That means more baked items for CAWD2.

10:10 The Magic Dot

A fun exercise in our 2D workspace is to explore the power of animation by bringing a simple dot to life. The advantage of using a simple dot is we don’t have to have good drawing skills, as we are just drawing a dot. A dot animation is a great way to practice spacing, timing, and motion and arcs. We can also experiment with depth by changing the size of the dot. We can even add smears to create motion blur.

To get started, we’ll change the animation to 12 FPS (Frames per second). Start by animating on the twos, but don’t worry too much as the more frames between will create faster motion. To help use we can make sure onion skinning is turned on which will allow us to see the previous and next frames as reference.

Onion Skinning show ghosts of the keyframes before and after the current frame allowing animators to make decisions in the animation sequence.

In contrast to the other types of animation we have done, this exercise is done straight ahead, meaning that each frame is drawn in sequence, without planning out the key poses (Pose to Pose). The result is very organic.

Your Task: Create a Magic Dot(s) Animation

Experiment with color, depth and movement. Feel free to add more dots, connect dots or build your dot out into something more (bee, bug, fly) and a background for your magic dot.

A workflow I am using is to start with one dot and create my animation. Then do a full copy and expand for a second animated sequence. By duplicating and creating multiple scenes, you can build on your animation.

When working in Blender, I’ll create one additional (new) scene called video editing. I’ll then go to the video editor and add my other scenes in for a render.

Render as .mp4 and attach you last name to the file. Place in today’s dailies folder and we’ll view before lunch today.