Class hours: 10:05 – 2:45
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org
10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance
Welcome to Week 24- make those folders
Current Projects in GAWD:
- 2d Walking Animation – Due Today
- Bendy Bones Animation – Due Wednesday
- Asset Modeling for PSA – Wednesday March 19th (I highly recommend using the afternoon time to complete your asset modeling if you are here in the afternoons).
- *Assets on a Plan do not need to be in color (this is a change)
- Hiring Fair in the library tomorrow from 11:30-3pm. Lots of companies. Looking to hire for summer positions. Let me know if you want to attend.
- Quarter 3 officially ends on March 21st! Wow. The absolute last day to hand in work will be Monday, March 24th at 2:45pm. After that time, all past due work will count as incomplete and be a zero.
10:10 PSA – Vermont Highway Safety Alliance
In English you are going to begin planning the message for your PSA. This weeks task will be to create your message, find your facts, and create your storyboard. Storyboard sheets can be found at the front of the room. Use your storyboard to:
- Plan your shot types
- Capture your story and action
Storyboard drafts (and that is all they have to be) will be due on Friday – you just need to walk me through your process.
- Monday (today) craft your message
- Wednesday (find your facts and fill out facts sheet) I’ll give to you on Wednesday
- Friday (turn in your storyboard)
If you stay on top of this schedule, you will be in great shape when it comes time to build your animation next week. Don’t fall behind. I’ll keep the schedule moving.
10:20 Lip Sync Battle Project
The goal of this project is to continue exploring the 2D workspace in Blender, practice working with audio and use your creative skills to push your animations.
What we are working for is a LipSync battle. Our lip sync battles will take in two weeks.
The due date will be March 26th – A Wednesday.
This entire project will be completed in Blender using the video editor tools.
We are going to create some original characters and then set them in an appropriate setting to perform a 20 second Lip Sync. I’ve linked some samples:
For this project, you are going to need several assets.
- A piece of music in .mp3 form (don’t worry about copyright – we are going all out)
- A character(s) / backgrounds inked out in 2D workspace
- A reference image for common vowel sounds (google mouth shapes) Results
To minimize problems, I am going to advise you to incorporate 1 Grease Pencil object (blank).
After you add your blank stroke, move it to it’s own collection. In this collection you will create the mouthshapes.
then on your other stroke layer create:
- background layers for your scene
- layers for your character
- Remember, layers are important – anything you want to animate should be it’s own layer
By the end of this week you should have:
- Your music selected and downloaded as an .mp3 , reliable tool
- Begin building your scene (you can also model in 3D and render as image to get the right perspective, shadows and staging)
- Create your character (or have a good idea of your character) and ink out in it’s own GP Stroke
- Tackle the Mouthshapes as a separate GP Stroke
- ProTip – keep each GP Stroke in its own Collection
- You’ll notice from the examples that the best ones include more than the mouth animation.
I’ll demo adding audio in Blender and using the video sequencer to scrub and sync to mouth shapes. Save often and do check your layers carefully (which layer you are on).
Headphones will make everyone happier!
10:50 Break
11:00 English with Mx. Yopp
11:50 – 12:25 Lip Sync Project Continued…
12:25 – 12:55 Lunch
12:55 Independent Reading
1:20 Break
1:30 Design Challenge
1:55 Production Time and Guided Support
Current Assignments:
- 2d Walking Animation – Due Today
- Bendy Bones Aninmation – Due Wednesday
- Asset Modeling for PSA – Wednesday March 19th (I highly recommend using the afternoon time to complete your asset modeling if you are here in the afternoons).
- Work on your PSA Messaging
2:38 Dailies
Dailies can be placed in the CAWD2 Dailies Folder on the CAWD2 Public Folders drive