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Thursday, February 12th

Thursday, February 12th

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

Notes

MJ – Happy Birthday!

  • Skills Day!
  • English right after Lunch
  • MidPoint of Q3 closes tomorrow
  • 1:55 in the cardio room – For PE today (Collin)
  • Pay attention to deliverables set on the dayplan for Animation(GAWD2) and Game(GAWD1)
  • Each week we’ll divide up the Design Competition between the two dayplans.
  • Visitor tomorrow – no worries – they will float about
  • MMU Winter Carnival Tomorrow / EHS Winter Activities tomorrow

10:05 Attendance and move to GAWD1

10:10 Game / Animation Design and Competition

Animation

This Week and Next Week will be a one-off prompt. When you return from break, your final prompt/animation design challenge will be provided to your team.

While the first week was about interaction, this week is about body mechanics and synchronization. The challenge isn’t just this weeks animation – it is merging your files into one master scene.

Week 21/22 Deliverables – “The Workout”

Goal: Demonstrate mastery of Weight, Timing, and Staging by animating a coordinated fitness scene. Each of you will animate your own character doing “Exercise” as outlined below…

Pick your poison (One per team member):

  • The Heavy Lift: (Bench Press, Squat, or Deadlift) – Focuses on Slow-In and Slow-Out.
  • The Bodyweight Rep: (Push-ups or Pull-ups) – Focuses on Arcs and Resistance.
  • The Cardio Blast: (Jumping Jacks or Burpees) – Focuses on Exaggeration and Squash & Stretch.

Deliverable #1

Character Sheet: A single landscape document showing all characters side-by-side in a neutral T-pose or A-pose.

Characters must share a consistent art style. (You can’t have one stick figure, one hyper-realistic human, and one cartoon cat unless there is a very good reason for this)

Filename: T-pose.pdf

Deliverable #2

Specs: 1920×1080 | 24fps | Minimum 120 Frames (5 Seconds).

Environment: Must choose a “Single Location” (Gym, Beach, Garage). All characters must be rendered in the same file with consistent lighting.

Bonus (+5): Add synchronized audio (grunts, clanking weights, or high-energy gym music).

Filename: TeamName_Workout.mp4

For This week – I’d like to see your character sheet and Rough Animation of your characters. We’ll treat this first week like a daily – you show where you are. Next week I want to see final versions!

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

11:00 Design Competition Continued….

11:55 Lunch

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

12:25 English with Mx. Yopp

Word Cloud of literacy terms

1:10 Afternoon Break

1:25 Skills/Design Production

1:45 Independent Production & Guided Support

  • PSA Facts Worksheet – Wednesday, February 18th
  • 2D Animation (3 objects) – Wednesday, February 18th
  • Asset Modeling – Friday, February 20th

2:10 Dailies

2:15 Independent Reading

book covers

2:40 Dismissal

GAWD Instructors:

Matt Cronin

Will Bohmann

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A little about GAWD:

Serving high school students interested in Gaming, Animation, 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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