Wednesday Class Hours: 10:05 – 1:45
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Early release Wednesday! Callbacks:
- Quang to Math @ 12:15pm
- Shelby, Bourdeau, Wyatt, Quang, Isaac, and Sawyer to English @ 1pm
- Quang and Bourdeau – Student Leadership today – head to get lunch 10 minutes early.
- Can we all test to see if we have Illustrator? Will need for tomorrow…
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Midweek Morning Meetings
Wednesday’s we will have our Midweek Morning Meetings.
You and I will meet 1:1 and we can:
- See what you are missing for assignments
- Go over the previous weeks T&E grades
- Go over anything you are pretty confused about so I can review
When not meeting with me – I want you working on Production.
10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)
11:00 Dancing Chair
- Lets make the chair dance with Shape Keys! Adding organic animation to inorganic elements.
11:15 The 12 Principles of Animation – our focus this week: Exaggeration
The 12 Principles of Animation were developed by Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston in the 1981 book The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation. They form the foundation of nearly all modern animation — 2D, 3D, stop motion, or otherwise.
Today and this week we are going to focus on Exaggeration.
11:25 Face and Facial Animations
This week in GAWD we are going to independently create something similar to the face we built and animated together on Tuesday.
Step 1 – Create a face in Blender
Be realistic on what you can accomplish, while at the same time you need to create elements that can be animated using Shape Keys. Consider:
- Cartoonish eyebrows (low hanging fruit to show emotion)
- Mouth that is open (at least for Basis Shape Key), easy to animate open and close
Step 2 – The Animation
Create and demonstrate through animation the following emotions / shape keys sets:
- Basis (neutral)
- Happy
- Sad
- Angry
- Wildcard (this you choose the emotion)
Make sure that for each emotion you HOLD on that emotion for a second so we can see it. Full credit goes to the students that hear and implement this requirement.
Step 3 – The Post Production
In Premiere when the 4 animations turn on / off, you will have text fade in and out in the bottom center which corresponds to that emotion. Basic / Happy / Sad / Angry / Wildcard (swap out the word Wildcard for whichever emotion you choose)
We will go over how to do this on Thursday’s Adobe Lesson.
Once you have animated, rendered, and post produced your project, export with the final name lastNameFacialEmotions.mp4.
11:35 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.
12:05 Attendance and Article
12:10 Blender
Let’s create a melting candle using Shape Keys.
12:40 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.
1:00 Afternoon Break (15 minutes)
1:15 Afternoon Practice & Production
Face and Facial Animations
- lastNameFacialEmotions.mp4
DH6: Inktober
- lastNameDH_6.jpg
Week 6 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
1:20 Dailies
1:25 “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.
1:45 Dismissal
