Monday, October 23rd

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Monday! Week 9! Let’s create our “week_09” folders now.
The last couple … I just shivered.
This is the last full week you will be in your seats! Look left, look right, have a moment.
As Friday is the end of the Quarter – all missing work needs to be turned in by Friday at 2pm. Friday at 2pm I have to lock up grades and send to your sending schools. Due to this the work you do this week is actually part of Quarter 2, as it is due in Quarter 2.
The final grade of Q1 (beyond what you turn in today) is your T&E grade for Week 9. Have a great week, and get that “A”.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks

I am going to give you 15 minutes to get your Week 3 work uploaded (organized, with correct file names) to the public drive. This will happen each Monday at the start of class.

Andy Emotions

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DH8: Segmented Floating Droid Character Orthographic Art

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Week 8 Agency

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10:30 Blender

Graph Editor practice and further exploration
Making objects look like they are “hitting” or “bouncing” off each other – fine tuning animation curves

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 Sapan will give Constructive Criticism.

Tomorrow Braden will.

11:30 DH9: Halloween Themed

DH9 is going to be a hybrid of open-ended, but constrained to the theme of Halloween.

You can take this one of two ways in terms of topic:

Genuinely scarry – trying to scare or creep us out
Campy, kitschy scarry – think spooky Americana, Trick or Treating

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11:35 Unreal

Creating a more drab, nighttime environment – something that may fit the idea of Halloween more naturally than the default bright lighting.
A couple different ways to do it – so many options to tweak…..

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

11:30 DH9: Halloween Themed

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Week 9 Agency

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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.