Skip to content
Cawd Logo Cawd
  • Home
  • About
  • Assignments
  • Student Work
  • Resources
  • Contact

Monday, February 3rd

Monday, February 3rd

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

Week 22

Notes

  • Welcome to Week 22
  • Week 21 “What is Due” is up –
  • Explore CTE this week – what this means….
  • Congratulations to finalists for Pin and T-shirt

Pin Design:
Bradley Milligan, DCM1
Ryan Garrow, DCM1
Tatyana Suvorova, CAWD1
T-Shirt Design:
Brennan Calacci, CAWD2
Jake Crock, DCM1
Carly Laudenslager, DCM2

  • Articles – How I am grading
    A – reader, good summary, details, vocabulary defined
    B – reader, summary, vocabulary
    C – basic summary
    D – missing components from article summaries
    F – incomplete

Last Week’s Vocabulary

  • paleontologist
  • formidable
  • immersive
  • magnetometer
  • garnered
  • gyroscope
  • surveillance
  • quened
  • accelerometer
  • geophysics
  • cohesive

9:40 Attendance & Article

9:50 Blender – Particle Systems Animations

Particles are lots of items emitted from mesh objects, typically in the thousands. Our new computers will handle particles better, but we have to be patient.

Each particle can be a point of light or a mesh, and be joined or dynamic.

They may react to many different influences and forces, and have the notion of a lifespan.

Dynamic particles can represent fire, smoke, mist, and other things such as dust or magic spells – here is where you can get really creative.

Let’s play with some particles this morning.

10:45 Break (15 Minutes)

coffee and cookies

11:00 – 12:10 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.

12:10 – 12-40 Lunch

pizza

12:40 – 1:05 Literacy in Focus

image of book covers

1:05 – 2:05 Particle Systems Challenge

Some very nice particle simulations

As we saw this morning, working with particles is really interesting. There are thousands of combinations you can choose when you add the particle effect. Hey, we made it rain Monkeys.

This afternoon, I want you to continue to explore the Particle Systems in Blender. Some areas to challenge yourself:

  • Trying out different force fields & modifiers
  • Try out different particles (maybe hair) and settings
  • Adding a color ramp for your particles so they change
  • Adding a camera to capture your particle simulation from a variety of views – here is a tutorial (and 1 way to do this)

This is 55 minutes of exploratory time. Stay on task, stay in Blender.

We’ll do a Gallery Walk of your creations.

Render a screenshot and place in Week 22.
Filename: Particle.png

2:00 Dailies –

Link to Dailies and Link to Responses

2:05 Dismissal

Cawd Instructors:

Matt Cronin

Will Bohmann

Instragram Facebook Twitter

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:

Dealer.com Union Street Media Rovers North Prudential Investments DockYard
Navigate to top of page