Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin
Mr. Bohmann
Notes
- It’s another Tumultuous Tuesday at EHS! Schedules changed accordingly.
- Doors locked immediately after school as normal for Tuesdays.
9:40 Attendance and Article
9:45 Midterm Production
Midterm Components
There are 2 components to your Cawd 2020 Midterm:
- Component 1: Character Animation – 85%
- Component 2: Perspective Proficiency Sketch – 15%
Both due Monday, January 13th at 9:45.
Component 1: Character Animation (85% of your grade)
Due Monday. January 13th at 9:45 on in “week_18” called “(lastname)FinalChallenge.mp4”.
Screens off, random order determined by random.org/lists. If you aren’t ready, letter grade off – for any reason. Be prepared. What you present is your Midterm. Your work is your brand; protect it.
Some areas where you can improve that you may be forgetting / ignoring!
- HDRI Backgrounds / Point Light use for lighting.
- Many of our projects have a very “flat” look and feel.
- Consider using HDRI’s as backgrounds. This is a fairly low-resistance way to get attractive lighting.
- Consider creating point lights to help create shadows.
- Many of our projects have a very “flat” look and feel.
- Texture Improvement
- Remember you are not limited to default colors. You have the ability to create glossy, metallic, glass, emissive – all sorts of different shading surfaces.
- Sound Design
- This often makes or breaks a project.
- Don’t have sound … no sound … sound … no sound. It creates a very artificial sound experience – you can hear the gaps. Have at least some type of unifying sounds like a song, or wind, or crowd, or ambient city sound.
- Story efficiency and clarity
- You have watched your animation 30 times. You know the story. You have to create an animation where the public can watch it once (without taking notes) and comprehend where the story you are trying to convey.
- Everyone should be rendering something overnight, each night. For this week everyone computes can stay on so long as the monitors are off, don’t even have to ask. Render SOMETHING, maybe higher quality, maybe an extra shot, fix and re-render something. Try out something different for a camera angle, fix some animation. Incremental progress.
Everyone has a really great start, and this week gives you the time needed to create something that can act as a cornerstone to get you into college.
Think of the work product “The Challenge” could add to your Portfolio:
- Character Sketches
- Character Origin Story Assets
- Environmental Asset Renders
- Storyboard
- 1st Draft animation
- 2nd Draft animation (tomorrow)
- Final Draft animation (soon)
Component 2: Perspective Proficiency Sketch
In this component, you are going to take our 2nd Quarter Perspective Focus and apply it to a final piece of art. You can choose between:
- 1 Point Perspective – that is what you see above. Can you see where the vanishing point is.
- 2 Point Perspective
- 3 Point Perspective
Use any resource for review / teaching. I am happy to give you a review / reinforcement if you are still unclear.
10:45 Break (15 Minutes)
11:00 Midterm Production
11:50 Lunch (30 Minutes)
12:20 Attendance and Article
12:25 Midterm Production
2:00 Dailies
