Tuesday, February 11th

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

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Food Drive – bring in an item or two

EP – camera – please return to the program

Some Nice Moods Demonstrations – Example 1, Example 2, Example 3 – due date is tomorrow.

10:10 Continuing… How Animators Animate

Screenshot from *Creating a Finished Character Animation in Blender 2.9* by David Andrade
(LinkedIn Learning)

Yesterday we looked at how an animator broke down several Extreme Poses or Key Poses and sketched them out (in Blender) also called blocking. Let’s look at how a video reference influences how animators animate. We’ll watch 3 videos

Using video reference
Blocking Out Key Poses
Final Render

The Breakdowner – In Blender

The breakdowner is a tool that you can use so you can work your breakdowns or inbetweens of your key poses. The breakdowner allows you to speed up or slow down the in-betweens from your extreme poses. Let’s have a look…

A shortcut key is Shift + E

10:50 Break

11:00 English with Mx. Yopp

11:50 – 12:25 Vermont Highway Safety Alliance

Vermont Highway Safety Alliance Animation Project

Vermont Highway Safety Alliance’s Annual PSA Video Contest is open to high-school students with the goal of encouraging you, your friends and classmates to avoid distracted driving. Test your video skills, win prizes, and help make Vermont roads safer. CAWD2 students have been very successful in the past, so let’s see what you can do. Here’s a past winner from CAWD2 and so it this one and so is this one. There are also another handful of winners and I’ll share some of those in weeks to come.

What: Create a 25 second YouTube video on the dangers of distracted driving.
This is a PSA – Public Service Announcement.
Contest Deliverables

The goal is to produce a video that will engage new drivers and highlight the dangers of distracted driving. We will make ours a 3D Animation. This will be an individual project with a community approach.

Schedule & Details

Each of you will be responsible for creating five assets that will be modeled in Blender. Everyone will be responsible for a road sign and a car (you can go so many ways here – from cartoony to high level detail)

Assets will be deposited in a community Google Folder – PSA 2025 VHSA Community Folder
Once assets are in the community folder, they are free for you to grab and use.

A quick note on your assets:

models will be plain – no materials/textures
Each asset (blend file) will have a proper name like this…
- filename: lastname_modeltype.blend example: Bohmann_StopSign.blend
- and be saved as separate files
Additionally, one additional file which will be a jpg render of all five assets on a plane with materials
- filename: Bohmann_assets.jpg so we can see what the assets look like.

You will select items you need or want to build your animation. Once you take them, they are yours to modify and change. Don’t complain if you don’t like the modeling.

From the assets, you will assemble a PSA on the dangers of distracted driving. There are many stylistic approaches you can take for your PSA. Good PSA’s have three qualities in common:

Gets the audience to pay attention
Message is clear and easy to understand
Message is supported by facts about the issue

The audience understands how others are affected by the issue -( the impact on others )

To start and for today: Divide paper or sketchbook into 6 squares. Use five of those squares to sketch out your asset pack. Put your name and any other details (design info, color ideas, aesthetic your after) in the 6th square. Hand in to me by Friday (End of Day) – these are sketches – so don’t get bogged down. I just want to know what you are going to model. I’d budget 30 Minutes for this.

This Paper 5 pack will be your pre-production planning. When I see your sketches, I’ll approve you to move your designs into production models.