Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Separated at birth (and also by a year) – Happy Birthday to both Amanda AND Shelby!
- Topics for InkTober:
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Blender
This AM and after our Critiques we are going to start looking at modeling a basic face and creating some facial animations. Facial animations are probably the best (efficient + obvious) way to convey how a character is feeling.
This year our character animation focus is going to be emotion. How can we take faces and vertex points and make someone “feel” the way we want them to? This is what we are going to start on this week.
- Let’s make a basic BOXY face together with eyebrows to push emotions
- Let’s use shapekeys to create:
- Happy
- Angry
- Sad
10:50 Morning Break
11:00 Critiques
Each week we will upload our work on Monday. I will then present your work to the class. Each project I will pick a student to practice giving constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve. In the professional setting we need to be to talk professionally about the work, even if you don’t “love” the person who created it.
If selected, you will pick 1 thing that works, and 1 thing to improve upon next time. Remember we are separating the Design from the Designer. We are looking for actionable input.
11:30 Blender
Continnued work with Facial Animations using Shape Keys.
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 Attendance and Article
12:30 Blender
- Shape Keys with a bird
- The cycles (not the renderer) modifier (not found in modifiers)
12:50 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.
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production
DH6: Inktober
- lastNameDH_6.jpg
Week 6 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
