Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Week 6! Let’s make our folders.
- Did we survive Friday? Are we alive?
- So the next couple of weeks will be weird and wild:
- WorkKeys pre-testing starts today. Not all students need to take the pre-test (many have already taken it), but about half of the class will.
- We don’t have school on Friday or Monday – you will get a 4 day weekend! I trust that you will all go outside and experience real life in the beauty of Vermont foliage season, right, RIGHT?
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.
Sound Design
- (lastName)SoundDesign.mp4
DH5: Free Sketch
- (lastName)DH5.jpg
Week 5 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg
10:30 Premiere
- Review of Sequence creation / some of us are still getting this wrong
- Basics of transitions / ways to automate manual effects
- Soloing tracks
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 Tennyson will give Constructive Criticism.
Tomorrow Aiden will.
11:30 WorkKeys Intro / Testing Schedule / Locations
ACT WorkKey Assessments are the cornerstone of ACT workforce solutions. The assessments measure foundational skills required for success in the workplace, and help measure the workplace skills that can affect job performance.
Starting this week students that haven’t taken the WorkKeys assessments will take their pre-tests.
Who is taking the tests over the next couple of weeks, dates, and which random testing group:
Where and when the testing group is testing:
Where are the testing locations?
11:35 Creating a Time-Lapse video with OBS and Blender
Time-lapses’s are sped up videos of a process. We can time-lapse a 3D scene creation, a digital painting, construction of a house, really anything that can be filmed being created – and then sped up. These are very popular in our fields as we can visually show a longer creation, sped up in a shorter amount of time. Like this:
12:00 DH6: A portal between the Natural and Human worlds
This weeks DH6 work as pre-production Concept Art for the Week 7 Partner based CAWD project. What you create this week will help you and your partner next week.
I want you to visualize Natural vs. Human worlds, connected through a portal. The goal will be to have a natural world (level created in Unreal with assets from Blender) and an Human World (level created in Unreal with assets from Blender) that is connected through a portal.
The Natural World will be organic, rolling landscapes, and lacking human development.
The Human World hard edged, flat, electronic, polluted, full of human development.
This week I want you to draw a finished piece OR Concept Art with the following design elements:
Natural World
- Organic element 1 (flower?)
- Organic element 2 (tree?)
- Rolling landscape (think hills) with placement for a portal
Human World
- Inorganic element 1 (building?)
- Inorganic element 2 (bridge?)
- Flat landscape with placement for portal
The Portal
- The Portal – something we will walk into using our third person game to jump from level to level
How can we draw it?
You could create something like the above example where the design elements are blended together in a fine art piece.
You could create something like this where it is 2 scenes divided in the middle.
You could create something that is Concept Art where it is different design elements all over the place, separate little sketches.
Save your file as (lastName)DH6.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
DH6: Natural and Human worlds
- (lastName)DH6.jpg
Week 6 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
