Monday, October 7th

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

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Week SEVEN

Welcome to Week – make those folders
Foliage Report – for your Vermont Foliage Assignment
Love those resume power verbs
Catamount Family Center Field trip tomorrow. Bring you camera and shoes for walking is grass and on dirt. We’ll be going rain or shine. I recommend clearing off your SD card today and charging your battery. We’ll be back in time for lunch
No English on Tuesday
You are off Thursday & Friday (CCV classes – look for online assignment)

10:10 Monday Mail – Check Google Classroom and PowerSchool

10:15 Animating on a Path & Motion Paths- After Effects

Last week 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

Animate using Motion Sketching

Motion Sketching is a good way to do simple animations of an item. It works by following your mouse movements. We can smooth those movements by reducing keyframes with the Smoothing Too.

Masking & Compositing in After Effects

Vocabulary Alert: Compositing

Compositing is bringing two or more picture elements together to make a single image.

Compositing can be done with video by combining still images, graphics and video along with color corrections, special effects, etc… to create a seamless composite.

Masks are a key ingredient to doing a proper composite. Masks allow you to determine the visibility of specific parts of a layer,

Masking is a powerful way to create and animate with Motion Graphics. This morning, let’s practice a little more with tools for Masks.

Creating Masks – basic properties
Mask properties
Transforming and animating masks

Let’s start with some basics:

Use a mask to hide something and fill with content aware
Use a mask to create a parallax effect
Use a mask to blend two images together for a composite
Use a mask to for visual effects
Use a mask to create a simple reveal.

Instructions for working with Masks in After Effects

10:50 Break

11:00 English with Mx. Yopp

11:50 CAWD Sweatshirt

The Big Picture: Redesign the CAWD Sweatshirt. Hoodie or Zip Up? There are four color options (charcoal, navy, gray, heather). 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 & Game, 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)

Design Homework of the Week: The Project: