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