Tuesday, October 3rd

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

View from Big Deer – Groton State Park – *Will Bohmann*

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Today is a CTE Red Day

Vermont Foliage Report – found the map!

10/5: Last day to register for the Nov. 4th SAT’s

The More You Know Newsletter

Multicultural Group Meeting Wed and Student Leadership Meeting on Thursday

CCV – Python is online on Friday – remember CTE does not have school Friday – Monday

10:10 Animating on a Path and Masks – AE

Last week Thursday we looked at the properties and selector options available for our text layers. Specifically we played around with the built in Animator options for text. I encourage you to do a little experimenting if you were having some trouble understanding the Start/End & Range options for text animation.

If we dig into AE a little further, we can browse and apply text animation presets by looking at the collection of Effects and Presets panel. There are many presets. I found a pretty good summary with examples from Motion Island.
Remember: “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” when considering animation options

For fun, let’s look at using paths with our text. This is also a good introduction into using masks.

Let’s also work with animating items from a Path. Every stroke as a path (and so do shapes!)

Remember:

If you have a layer selected when you grab a shape or pen tool, you are making a mask

If you do not have a layer selected and you grab a shape or pen tool, you will be making a new shape layer

In case you get lost, I wrote up a short tutorial on animating on a path.

Specifically we’ll practice:

Animating a shape on a path
Animating text on a path
Using Masks to create paths for shapes and text
Auto Tracing vectors to create paths

10:50 Break

11:00 English

11:50 CAWD Sweatshirt

The Big Picture: Redesign the CAWD Sweatshirt. Hoodie or Zip Up? There are three color options (charcoal grey, navy, black). We already have your sizes recorded from a previous survey.

The first step is to vote on the color and style. Voting Form.

The second step is to create the design. Each CAWD2 student will individually create a design. The winning design will be printed and all students in the CAWD program will receive a sweatshirt (free).

Details: Designs will be drafted on paper first. After creating your analog design, you be approved to go digital. The best tool for this is Adobe Illustrator.

All designs are allowed three colors
The sweatshirt will provide the fourth color.
Must haves: Logo, cawdvt.org & Computer Animation & Web Design
Our CAWD font is Raleway but Mr. Cronin and I are open to creative expression!
Check out some of the old sweatshirts for inspiration – sky’s the limit (sort of)
(I have an .ai of the Logo for when you to digital design)

The Project: