Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Week 11 – two weeks of school and you get a 9 day Thanksgiving Break!
- That’s pretty neat.
- Hey, let’s make our Week 11 folders now!
- Game Day? Is there interest? We have options…
- Cook / bake food and bring it in?
- Kick in money and I will go shopping before school? The Poorly Produced Piece of Pottery.
- A combination?
- Game systems, former students, chilling, socializing, relaxing before vacation.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Last Looks
- CAWD Droids
- lastNameDroid_1.jpg
- lastNameDroid_1.mp4
- lastNameDroid_2.jpg
- lastNameDroid_2.mp4
- DH10: Multi Character Storyboard
- (lastName)DH10_1.jpg (first sheet, 4 full cells)
- (lastName)DH10_2.jpg (second sheet, 4 full cells)
- Week 10 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg
10:30 Blender
- Compositor Review
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 Isaac will give Constructive Criticism.
Tomorrow Megan will.
11:30 2nd Quarter Art Focus: Perspective
As part of CAWD we use the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Quarters to work on specific artistic techniques that colleges and employers want to see.
We will focus on:
- Perspective – Q2
- Still life – Q3
- Portrait – Q4
Why do we focus on these specifically? CAWD as I have said, is all about getting you into what is next. We aren’t really a class that just gets you to graduate (though we do that), we are about setting you up for the next phase of your life.
To that end, one of our most popular schools students want go to is Champlain, for their CAWD-like degrees.
Lets look at the Portfolio Requirements for the Game Art and Animation.
Hey – that looks really similar to what we are going to do in CAWD! Many other schools are looking similar skills, so what we do in CAWD is specifically built to help you get into college. Imagine that.
So – today we start with 1 point perspective!
12:20 DH11: 10 floating boxes / 5 overlapping
DH11 is going to be demonstrating the skills we just practiced.
Draw 10 floating boxes using a singular vanishing point (the 1 point of 1 point perspective). Have at LEAST 5 of the boxes overlapping.
While you don’t need to color (but you can) you must shade so that the sketches have depth.
Save as (lastName)DH11.jpg.
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
1:00 A Gentleman in Moscow
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
- DH11: 10 floating boxes / 5 overlapping
- (lastName)DH11.jpg
- Week 11 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg
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.
2:45 Dismissal
