Tuesday, May 28th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:45
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Welcome to Week 36!
We have 2 weeks of academic school left, then a week of end of the year activities:
- 36 – “Passion Project” Draft (2 projects – no more Web specific projects)
- 37 – “Passion Project” Final – all work due Friday June 7th at EOD (only project – final grade)
- 38 – end of year activities
  - Monday – Certification exam
    - Have to take the exam, part of the program. If you can’t take it Monday, we may invite you back Friday to take it after school is over. This is not what anyone wants, so make sure you are here Monday.
  - Tuesday – Movies (CAWD2 wants Garfield if possible)
  - Wednesday – Game Day / Social / Relax
  - Thursday – Recognition Night Rehearsal, Recognition Night – LAST DAY OF CAWD! Everyone get off of work / other stuff so we can end the year with a nice night, get some photos, get some scholarships (I know people in the room that will win $), etc.
    - At the we want to get together to get some photos of the class before you leave.
      - Like this.
      - Or this.
      - Or this.
Otto 1:40
No Speed Design today. We are hosting visitors today for 15 minutes from Shelburne middle school, we are going to walk them around and show off what you are working for your Passion Projects. We may have you sit with the student and explain what you are working on. Connie and Lee I almost guarantee that I feature you 2 as you are are the state champion animators. We have 9 visitors, assume you are going to talk to them about your work and sit when them for 5 minutes. NO FORM, just show off your skills!

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks

Web Mini Capstone
- Different deliverables based on the grade you are shooting for – check the Tuesday May 21st Dayplan.
DH35: Hair
- lastNameDH35.jpg

Last Looks all the way up to 10:40 when we leave for a….

10:40 Bus Drill!

We literally have to practice jumping off a bus.

You will go to break directly from the drill.

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 Megan will give Constructive Criticism. (I think we can get 2 projects done in 1 round of Critiques)

11:30 DH36: Final Portrait

In our Final Design Homework of the year, we are going you to ask to create a final portrait sketch. The persona you sketch is up to you.

If considering sketching friend / someone pop culture that people know, note that this could make your life harder than doing a Generic Gerald.

Sign and date, call your work lastNameDH36.jpg.

For Critiques we also want you to include your baseline portrait (lastNameDH31.jpg) so we can see your growth.

If at the end of your final sketch, you don’t see improvement, continue to refine your final sketch until you do.

We will present both images, your before and your after.

Your improvement will drive your Final Design Homework grade for the year.

11:40 2024 CAWD Passion Project!!!

To end our year in CAWD we are going to work on our CAWD Passion Project. In this two week deliverable I want you to take inspiration from the area of CAWD that you enjoyed most, that you find yourself drawn to as a career or hobby down the road.

You will sink your teeth into this topic for the next 2 weeks and hopefully create something Portfolio worthy, as well as help you think about what is next – next week, next year, in 5 years.

What are some options?

3D Modeling – dive deep into a detailed model pack, scene, or character.
Video game environment design – create a world to explore.
Web programming (create JS inspired game like Cookie Clicker)
Character Animation – practice giving emotions to pixels.
New tool study – does 3D Sculpting in Blender seem interesting?
2D animation or artwork – digitally paint an epic scene or animation?
Game Jam – you have 2 weeks. Sprint to make a basic game.
Game Design – if thinking of Champlain College for example one of their requirements for application consideration is a board game. Take the next 2 weeks and build that board game, document, create artwork, do user testing, etc.
Traditional Art – if the goal is art school after high school, let’s go to that colleges portfolio requirements and work on samples that connect to what you have to do anyway. This is Brennan’s Cal Arts Sketchbook he had to do for … Cal Arts. Solid stuff.
Typography – use text to create imagery in a stylized way.
Etc – I am pretty flexible. CAWD awards high school credits in Art, Technology, and English. Let’s find something that we can have under our umbrella.

Start working today on whatever your gut tells you.

I am going to come around Wednesday at 11:00 and get your topics. I like to give you 24 hours to mull it over once you start, but once you pick tomorrow you are locked in. We just don’t want to have student’s topic shopping over and over and after the Passion Project have little complete.

11:55 Study Guide

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 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 Afternoon Practice & Production

Passion Project Draft
- Create a folder called “passionDraft” inside your Week 36 folder. You will choose what you wish to present. I would recommend 2-5 assets showing off your first draft work that could be:
  - WIP’s
  - OBS recordings of the process
  - What didn’t work and you are pivoting away from
  - etc
DH36: Final Portrait
- lastNameDH36.jpg – where you are now.
- lastNameDH31.jpg – where you were.
  - Remember that DH36 will be a before / after presentation.

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.