Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Tuesday!
- Today we will be having a presentation from Champlain College to kick off the day.
- I need to know by end of the day on Friday who is taking part in the Pin Design competition. I need to sign you up – so think about it. It really makes a lot of sense for a lot of you – some others, maybe not. Challenge yourself!
- 4 visitors will be in CAWD tomorrow from pre-tech from 10:30 – 11, working with:
- Aiden
- Peyton
- Lee
- Phoenix
- Extra credit to our class ambassadors, so long as they fill out the info form so I can note it! Form is always at the top of the Resource section.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Champlain College Presentation
- Ask good questions
- Be a respectful audience
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 Ben will give Constructive Criticism.
11:30 Unreal
- New project / something you have ownership on which you can extend through design competitions if you wish.
- The character that we start building this month will take over for the third person basic character.
- Our focus will be:
- A 3rd person game with our character from Blender swapped in.
- A puzzle / collectible based game. We will be going vertically up in the game, interacting some sort of interactive elements that allow us to climb the level.
- Hopefully created remotely (in cloud on G drive) so you can work at home on it.
11:45 Illustrator
- What is vector art? What is Illustrator?
- Vector vs. Raster.
- Basics of interface.
- Art tools.
- Stroke vs. Fill.
- Layers.
- Pen
- Working off a reference image / File / Place
- Text tools
- Saving a file (.ai) and then an image (.jpg) / folders / scale
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
- DH13: 10 floating boxes / 5 overlapping in 2 Point Perspective
- (lastName)DH13.jpg
- Week 13 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg
- OR Pin Design Agency work
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
