Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Happy Weekend!
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Pass Fail
This morning you are going to work in Partners. You will work at the person in bold’s computer. Once you have completed and rendered the project, you are going to place in the “passFail” folder as lastNameLastName.mp4. I will present, and you move on.
Here is what we are going to be practicing:
- Motion path usage for the earth around the sun
- Motion path usage for the moon around the earth
- Rotation of planet / moon on path, with linear interpolation so that the spin never speeds up or slows down.
- Parenting (remember child to parent)
- Particles for the sun (see settings below)
- Motion Blur (turn on)
- Viewport Rendering (quick visualizations)
- Creating a perfectly looping animation – work on your timing.
Textures for the the project:
Particle Settings for Sun
Turn gravity OFF – and use these as a guide, just make it look similar.
The key is the sun has some particles showing solar emission, while also dying off before they get to the planet and burn us all to death. Just make it look good.
Only the student who is HOSTING IN BOLD may touch the mouse and keyboard. The visitor is only there to help with workflow. HOSTING STUDENT IN BOLD.
Partners
- Sky / Asher
- Wyatt / Melissa
- Jackson / Goyet
- Jayden / Quang
- Bourdeau / Amanda
- Ben / Piche
- Sawyer / Isaac
10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)
11:00 Blender
- Using collisions through the Physics tab to prevent particles going ways we don’t want them to!
11:05 National Animation Competition from 2013 / Bad Piggies
Check back to the Wednesday Dayplan for specifics.
11:35 A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow is a reader’s dream — a wonder-full, nuanced story full of wit, insight, and imagination.
Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.
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 English
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 15 minute sprints in GAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production
Bad Piggies
- lastNameBadPiggies.mp4
DH7: Free Sketch
- lastNameDH_7.jpg
Week 7 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
2:15 Dailies
2:20 “19 Minutes”
Every day in GAWD will end with “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:
- Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
- Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
- Unplug
At the end I will 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened.
2:40 Dismissal
