Thu. Apr 1, 2021, 4:30PM to 6:00PM (Zoom)

The essential objective for today is a crash course in techniques for creating content for the bridge.

Announcements

Monday, April 5, starting at 7PM: Illuminate: Randy Pausch Bridge Light-Up Night 2021

Theory and Practice

  • Cindy: essentials of light and color theory
  • Garth: introduction to the bridge hardware
  • Interlude: a few more examples of LED art
  • Garth: introduction to Pharos Designer 2
  • Garth: case studies in bridge animation workflow

Project Group Meetings

Time permitting, we will briefly check in with each group in breakout sessions.

One administrative question: will one or more students be available for nighttime viewings of show prototypes?

Assignment 2

Due: noon on Thursday April 8

The project handout is available as a Google Doc and also embedded on the Project Brief page. As per the brief, next week all groups should present a well thought out concept for the project with a storyboard of visual research and/or sketches depicting each major design idea for the show.

Deliverable: blog post for the group with the following:

  • concept description in a concise paragraph of text
  • visual storyboard depicting the plan, including
    • visual research as embedded images and video
    • sketches (hand-drawn or digital) showing each major design idea