Monday, February 16th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Today is President’s Day
Today is the start of your last week before vacation
Today is the beginning of Week 22
MidPoint of q3 has come and gone. Q3 officially ends on March 27th
Any work assigned this week will not be due until after break – so use this week to get caught up and ahead.
Focus on finishing your PSA modeling and messaging
Want a Golden Ticket? Be 100% complete by Friday at Noon!

10:10 Monday Mail Check

10:12 Working in 2D Continued…

The 2D Walk Cycle

The 2D Walk Cycle
In the last week we have done some 2D work and collected some individual scenes using the Grease Pencil and even sequenced in the Video Editor – all right in Blender! We also worked with layers and fills. The workflow is different and takes some getting used to. Especially getting things the right layer.

Vocabulary Revisited: Onion Skinning – Onion skinning is a technique from 2D computer graphics that allows animators to see adjacent frames at once. That way, the animator can make decisions or edits based on how the previous frames are drawn.

Today we’ll hammer out a proper walk sequence, colorize our character and then add a bunch of modifiers to get some different effects from one basic walk cycle.

To set up the walk cycle, we only really need four poses and we will animate on the 3’s (every 3 frames) if we are working at 24 frames per second.

Frame 1, 13 & 25 same (contact pose) head is level
Frame 4 & 16 same (down pose) head is lower than level
Frame 7 & 19 same (passing pose) head is level again
Frame 10 & 22 same (up pose) head is above level

Things to try out: grease pencil modifiers, time modifiers, parallax effects through positioning in 2D workspace.

Project: Walk Cycle

Create a custom character of your own (robot, cog, eraser, pencil, flower) and ink out a nice looping walk cycle for your character. Set up your mise en scene. Animations should be at least 5 seconds in length. What about trying some parallax effects? What about overlapping and secondary action?

Filename: 2Dwalking.mp4 – Drop in the Google Classroom Dropbox
*Note – this is the only assignment besides the PSA and Skills/Design work we are doing in class this week.
This project is due on Thursday, March 5th for a showcase after English. Plenty of time to do some Instagram worthy work. Loop your animation smoothly for at least 5 seconds for a smooth walk cycle!

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

11:00 Monday Mash Up – Let’s make 2D and 3D work together!

By using the grease pencil and some basic modeling we can come up with a nice blend of 2D and 3D animation. We’ll do a helicopter together taking advantage of masking in 2D for the windows and noise modifiers. We’ll model from a basic cube – I’ll supply my base model to you to speed up workflow. You’ll make the materials and 2D art. You can find it in Public Folders under Blender Resources / Models.

11:55 Lunch

*Creative Commons Attribution 4.0* – Animal Style Burgers from In-n-Out

12:25 Unity – Zip Town

Let’s add a couple more features to ZipTown game. Specifically we’ll look at fixing up the pickup/drop off of packages and resetting so more deliveries can be made.

To assist, we’ll be using a variable type called a bool. A bool looks to see if something is true of false.

bool imHungry

     if(imHungry == true)          
        { 
          EatFood();
        }

1:10 Afternoon Break

1:25 Speed Design

1:45 Independent Production & Guided Support

PSA Facts Worksheet – Wednesday, February 18th
2D Animation (3 objects) – Wednesday, February 18th
PSA Asset Modeling – Friday, February 20th
2D Walk Cycle – Thursday, March 5th

2:10 Dailies

2:15 Independent Reading