Tuesday, May 30th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Tacos are our special today!
Welcome to Week 36! Let’s make our folders now!
No Agency this week.
3 Weeks left! We have a 4 day week (this week), a 5 day week, and a 4 day week and CAWD is over!
- Week 36 (this week)
  - Tuesday (Today)
    - Assigning of Final Design Homework Project (triple grade weight)
  - Wednesday
    - Assigning of Final CAWD Project – Content Management Systems
  - Thursday
  - Friday
- Week 37
  - Monday
    - Assigning of Final CAWD Agency Project (triple grade weight)
    - Finish something big that you have started, or work on something that you never got a chance to (Chat GPT powered project, driving game in Unreal, Geometry Nodes in Blender, Location based web project, etc)
  - Tuesday
  - Wednesday
  - Thursday
  - Friday
    - Presentations of Final CAWD work around English. Be ready to present at 9:40AM.
    - Final Day to get any missing work turned in
    - 2pm – Final CAWD Grades / College Grades must be sent to your sending schools – this is a hard deadline. Zero’s in your gradebook after 2pm on this date are zero’s literally forever.
- Week 38 (Last week of school)
  - Monday
    - CAWD goes to Essex Cinemas to see Spider-Man: Across the Universe
    - We are leaving right at 9:40, you can’t be late this day!
    - We pay for tickets, you pay for concessions
    - Back by 1ish? We will do a Study Guide when we return.
  - Tuesday
    - CAWD certification exam
    - We are taking it right at 10:30, you can’t be late this day! We will have an early morning cram session, and then take the exam.
    - Remember that it isn’t graded, it’s an opportunity that we give to you, and pay for. All we ask is you try your best. I think everyone in this room is going to be happy with the results.
  - Wednesday
    - Game Day / Get files off machines
    - If it doesn’t rain, I will be at one of my children school ceremonies. It if rains, I will be here.
  - Thursday
    - Make up Certification Exams at 10:00. If you miss taking the exam with the class Tuesday (don’t miss it), and you miss the make up Thursday (don’t miss it), you have to come in Friday June 16th at 8AM to take it. This is after our school year has ended, but you missed the first two times to take it in class. Just be here for the Tuesday exam – it’s the easiest solution.
    - Recognition Night Rehearsal
    - Recognition Night
      - Tell family now!!!
      - Get off work now!!!
      - It is a really nice happy night to start your summer!!!
      - Class Photo after the ceremony – you can’t leave until we take the photo!
Thursday and Friday morning from 11:45 to lunch, Mr. Bohmann is going to talk incoming CAWD2 students (half Thursday, half Friday) to CAWD2 to be game testers for CAWD2 Game Studio games. When these students are playtesting, they won’t do our Study Guide.

9:40 Attendance and Article

9:45 AM Production

Evaluation of Website Styles Website
- In called “evaluation”
DH 35: Face Proportions and Ratios
- In folder called “DH35”
Week 35 Agency
- “(lastName)Agency_1.jpg”
- “(lastName)Agency_2.jpg”
- “(lastName)Agency_3.jpg”
- … or if an animation …
- “(lastName)Agency.mp4”

As we move closer to the end of the year, I am going to use the entire AM window until break for you to get your work turned in. Once turned in, look at missing work, as well as look to get started on upcoming CAWD projects. You’re welcome.

10:35 Morning Break (10 minutes)

10 Minute break – you have to exit the room.
When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

10:45 Critiques

Today Jerry will be giving Constructive Criticism. Pick 1 thing that works, and 1 thing to improve upon next time. Remember we are separating the Design from the Designer. We are looking for actionable input.

Remember that Constructive Criticism can sometimes be subjective… on art which is also subjective. You don’t have to agree with the Constructive Criticism, but you have to hear it without getting defensive.

Tomorrow Granger will be giving Constructive Criticism.

11:30 DH 36: Final Portrait

Our Final Design Homework of the year! In this final Design Homework of the year we are going to be creating our Final Portrait. So far this quarter we have completed:

Baseline Portrait – where were we at the start of the Quarter?
Eye Design Study
Nose Design Study
Ear Design Study
Mouth Design Study
Hair Design Study
Portrait ratios and proportions Design Study

This week you are going to create your final Portrait incorporating what you have learned. This final piece will be something to go right into your Portfolio when applying to college, or something to hang in your home, post on your art station, etc.

You can choose a real person, you can draw yourself, you can draw a generic human – we just want to see human realism.

Draw it big, draw it clean, draw it detailed.

This final sketch is a triple weight project to reflect its importance. This can really help (or hurt) your 4th grade. Give it the time it deserves.

To turn your final work in we don’t need a website, we just want you to turn in both your baseline portrait, and your final portrait called “(lastName)FinalPortrait.jpg”. We will compare your work back to back. We want to see progression, just as if you were presenting your work to a college or employer. “I was here, but now I worked hard and now I am here.” It is the ability to learn and get better that people want to see.

As this is our Final Portrait for use in college (or display), we do not want to see construction lines, we want to see clean sketches – the best art you have created this year.