Wednesday, December 7th
Class hours: 9:40am – 2:05pm
Mr. Cronin
Mr. Herr
Notes
- Quiz Friday, please make sure you are studying!
- 4 wheel motorcycle.
- Staircase at the Musée national Gustave Moreau, Paris
- Some students did great with the Week 12 grading, some others didn’t and are now are doing worse. Please log in and check your gradesheets to see what you forgot to turn in and get it in the bin asap. Some also did the serif / sans serif wrong, please fix and put in late for full credit.
9:40 Attendance and Article
Some samples from last nights grading:
…and some animations.
9:50 Typography Pass / Fail
Replicate this background I created at 1920 x 1200 in size, resolution (dpi) staying at 72 as this is a for computer background. Notice the font, all caps, spacing, and second text layer (grey) used to show depth.
When you think you are done, raise your hand and I will check you off. Move on to the next exercise.
10:05 Morning Design Assignment: Working with Typography
In this next exercise you are going to work of an advertisement from a local newspaper. You are going to do your best to replicate the design company’s typography using your type skills in Photoshop.
Focus on:
- Font Selection
- Letter Spacing
- Colors
- Font Height
The advertisement you will be replicating:
The file I am giving you to use in Photoshop to start from, save this (the full sized) and open in Photoshop:
When your product looks like production ready (mimics the original design) save your file as “bba.jpg” and “bba.psd” and upload to Week 13.
10:45 Break (15 Minutes)
11:00 English with Mr. Bisson
- Group 1 get to Mr. Bisson’s classroom by 11 sharp
- Give Mr. Bisson your attention and respect
12:00 Lunch (30 Minutes)
12:30 Attendance and Article
12:30 Quiet Production Time
12:50 Afternoon Tread Based Animation
Check back to the Monday dayplan for specifics.
Making the movement of your tread based object realistic will be key to this animation, the rotation of your rollers in relation to your tread speed, the rotation of your tread to the ground speed, are the most important parts to this assignment.
2:05 Dismissal
Get Social
