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Tuesday, January 28th

Tuesday, January 28th

Class hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Bohmann
wbohmann@ewsd.org

Tumultuous Tuesday – B-Day

Notes

  • Welcome to Week 21
  • Week 20 “What is Due” is up –
  • T-Shirt Finalists – Brennan and Raj Presentations Thursday 10-1pm
    Practice time from 12:45-1pm today
  • Guest Speaker on Wednesday – Kyle Hinchliffe -former CAWD student and now full time Twitch streamer and content creator
  • Student Visitors – Ambassadors:

9:40 Attendance & Article

9:45 – 10:45 Skills USA Prep

skillsUSALogo

Animation & Game Teams

Check Mr. Cronin’s DayPlan for specifics for today’s work

Web Teams
Follow the Link below for Skills USA activities for today

This page can also be found in the Resources section
Skills USA activities page

Photography
Follow the Link below for Skills USA activities for today

This page can also be found in the Resources section
Skills USA activities for today

10:45 Break (15 Minutes)

coffee and cookies

11:00 – 11:50 Physics – Room m117

cartoon Graphic of Albert Einstein

Class meets in room m117 at 11am. Go to class immediately from break. When class is over, you will head to lunch.

11:50 – 12-20 Lunch

pizza

12:20 – 12:45 Literacy in Focus

image of book covers

12:45 – 2:05 Keying in on Keyframes

Keyframing is a fundamental skill in animation. To make a sequence have motion, objects move through frames – 24 frames by traditional animation standards all the way up to 60 fps (frames per second) for multimedia presentations.

Points of action, rise, fall, speed, direction all happen between the keyframes. A keyframe is a location on a timeline which marks the beginning or end of a transition.

Your task: Create a Stoplight. In Wisconsin we all call them by their proper name: Stop and Go light.

Model your own version in Blender. You can make it as fancy or simple as you want. Challenge yourself with your modeling skills. Using the timeline, animate a light sequence that starts red, turns yellow, then green.

After it turns green, Go back to yellow, then end on red.

Two seconds for each color. Change should happen at the keyframes. No ramping up of color. The light is either on or off.

Do your best to setup your camera for an attractive render that shows off your work and the lights sequence. Good composition is part of Staging – one of the 12 principles of Animation.

Place two files in your Week 21 Folder:
Your blender file: Stop.blend
Your render file: StopRender.mp4

2:00 Dailies –

Link to Dailies and Link to Responses

2:05 Dismissal


11:05 Student Visitors

We’ll be doing cinemagraphs with the visiting students.
Cinemagraph Directions

Cinemagraph Sample File 1 – Coffee
Cinemagraph Sample File 2 – Cat

Pexels is a great place to look for video content. Download smallest file size available.

Cawd Instructors:

Matt Cronin

Will Bohmann

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A little about Cawd:

Serving high school students interested in Computer Animation, Game Design, and Web Development in North Western Vermont.

Students continue at:

University of Vermont Ringling School of Art and Design Northeastern University Rochester Institute of Technology Concordia University

Students find careers at:

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