Monday, December 18th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Week 16! 5 days of school till a 10 day vacation!
Visitors tomorrow – farm that extra credit.
Here is what this week looks like (5 days of school before vacation):
- Monday ->Thursday – normal
- Friday – as SOON as we take attendance, we are OUT. CAWD pays for your movie tickets, but if you want concessions, you pay. We have to start the movie on time – so it may make sense to find a concessions buddy to get through the line quicker.
  - When we return from the movies I will put out the rest of the food that we had for our last game day to snack on – no Tarp, don’t bring anything in, but we can munch.
  - Students WILL have to go to their 7/8 classes.
  - We will NOT have English
  - Sadly – we have been told that the following schools are starting vacation early, and you won’t be here – but if you CAN get here for attendance you are welcome to come with us, just have to think about how to get here and back. Who is closed next Friday?
    - BFA
    - WHS
    - MMU
    - Milton (has half day and is not bussing students)
    - … so yeah.
If on the Pin Design track, this week you are creating V3 – the penultimate design! You should be getting close to a final, production ready design. We will be presenting V2 today and getting feedback, just like last week. Here are the final, approved specs for the CTE Pin Design competition – please if on the track download and read, just a page and a half long. You are being held against these specs going forward.

In the spirit of frustration that some of are feeling while weight painting, you are not alone.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks

Connected Character
- (lastName)Character_1.jpg
- (lastName)Character_2.jpg
- (lastName)Character_3.jpg
- (lastName)CharacterHappyGreeting.mp4
DH15: 10 Floating Boxes in 3 Point Perspective / 5 Overlapping
- (lastName)DH15.jpg
Week 15 Agency / Pin Design 2nd Draft
- lastNamePin_V2.jpg (make sure you keep the AI file)
  - … or …
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg

10:35 Blender

Texture Paint Review
- Masks
- Symmetry
Rigging Review
Animation Review
- rotational keyframe copying
- rescaling time

10:50 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.

11:00 Critiques

Each week we will upload our work on Monday as a class. I will then present your work to the class. Every week we will pick a new student to proactive giving constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve. In the professional setting we need to be to talk professionally about the work, even if you don’t “love” the person who created it.

If selected, you will 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.

Today Braden will give Constructive Criticism.

Tomorrow Sam will.

11:30 Drawing Content: 3 Point Perspective

Review of 3 Point perspective, this time with the 3rd vanishing point at the top of the page
The goal here is looking up at something and making it feel large, compared to

11:55 DH16: Tree House in 3 Point Perspective

This week I want you to setup your vanishing points similar to what we just completed, with the third vanishing point at the top.

I want you to create a tree house. If you are overwhelmed by the tree aspect, feel free to create a “tree tower” made of construction materials, or a straight up tree like a spine (see above).

Let’s agree that its some sort of kid based, elevated, play structure.

Save your file as (lastName)DH16.jpg. Due in January! (The day we return from vacation – not too far away)

12:00 Pin Deign Feedback!

We are going to present second draft of Pin Designs and give feedback to the designers in the Pin Design track.

12:25 Lunch

No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.

12:55 Attendance and Article and Pin Design Feedback

1:00 Steve Jobs Biography

Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.

1:20 Afternoon 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.

1:30 Speed Design

Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.

1:45 Afternoon Practice & Production

DH16: Tree House in 3 Point Perspective
- (lastName)DH16.jpg
Week 16 Agency / Pin Design 3rd Draft
- lastNamePin_V3.jpg (make sure you keep the AI file)
  - … or …
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg

Everyone will need their character to animate TOMORROW morning! We will be doing 3 Pass / Fail animations this week, assigned, animated, and presented immediately on the spot. Think of this as a mini animation festival.

2:20 Dailies

2:25 “19 Minutes”

4 of 5 days per week we will end our day in CAWD with the “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:

Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
Unplug

At 2:44 each day I will come to 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened in your story over that day’s reading session. It is neat to hear little pockets of a story, here and there.