Tuesday, January 23rd

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

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Officially we are in the start of Q3

Projects are grades / grades are in (mostly)

Today is a CTE Red Day – Do you know your afternoon classes?

SkillsUSA – begins on Thursday with a kickoff and the first practice sessions – Mr. Cronin and I are really excited. Skills is a grade in Q3.

10:10 Animation – Let’s make a ball bounce – but really well

The Bouncing Ball Animation in its simplest form teaches you the basics of timing, spacing, weight, arcs, squash & stretch, appeal, etc. You may not realize it at first, but you’re really working with a lot of the core principles of animation within the bouncing ball exercise. While it is tempting to jump to other animations, getting the basics will help all of your other animations.

Let’s do this one together and it will serve as a chance to get back into Blender.

Specifically we’ll dig in to the graph editor and the dopesheet. Don’t worry about materials yet. We’ll use a control to move the ball. This will make animation easier.

Some shortcut keys you may find helpful:

Control + Tab to move back and forth from the dope editor to the graph sheet
Shift + H to hide parts of the graph editor
Home – to frame up your camera in the workspace or to see the whole timeline / graph editor
V to look at the handles in the graph editor
Control + Middle Mouse to scale graph editor and dope sheet

Assignment: Ball Challenge Activity Assignment
(Bowling Ball, Bocce Ball, Superball, tennis ball, ping pong ball, marble, beach ball – you get the point)

Pick one type of ball, create a five second sequence (24 fps)

Add materials to your ball
Add lighting to illuminate your scene
Add some staging to make the animation interesting
Use your camera to set up an appealing shot.
Render as .mp4

Filename: type of ball_bounce.mp4 and upload to Google Classroom

Due: Monday, January 29th

10:50 Break

11:00 English with Mx. Yopp

11:50 Careers in Animation

Careers in the Animation Field – so many!

There are a lot of careers in the field of Animation. Here’s a list of some.

More artistic jobs:
Concept artist
Storyboard artist
Pre-visualization (previz) artist
Modeling artist
Texturing artist
Character animator
Creature animator
Technical animator
Matte painting artist
Lighting artist (sometimes seen as more technical)
Rotoscope artist

More technical jobs:
Rigging Technical Director (TD)Fx TD
Shading TD
Pipeline TD
Compositor
Colorist
Crowd TD
Cloth TD
Layout TD
Rendering TD
Scanning TD
Systems Administrator
Head of Tools (R & D)

Supervisor Jobs:
Director
Assistant Director
Producer
Production Designer
Animation Director
Visual Effects Supervisor
CG Supervisor
Director of Photography
Editor

Investigate one Artistic Job and one Technical Job and one Supervisor Job
(TD stands for technical director).
Select ones that look interesting to you, read about them and do a little research.

To earn an A for this assignment, do your homework. Your words, more than cut and paste. Assignment is in Google Classroom. Investigate, learn, share.

BTW – I used ChatGPT to look up a job. So easy to cut and paste and not really read the results. Be sure you answer thoroughly the questions on the worksheet. I want to know what you think.

Animation Career Review, Glassdoor, Indeed, Bureau of Labor Statistics