Tuesday, September 12th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

We would like to invite families and students to a Back to School Open House this Thursday September 14, 2023 from 6-7:30pm. This event will provide families and students an opportunity to meet with our teachers and tour programs and classrooms. You do NOT need to be here for 90 minutes – it simply a window of time to meet your family and friends, show off your classroom, answer questions, and demonstrate your budding skills.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Class Photos

Stand in the hallway alphabetically & quietly
2 go in at a time
No masks / hats / anything that obscures your face
Let’s not give these people a hassle, they are just doing their jobs
The faster we finish, the faster we get back and have the rest of the time leading up to break for production

Any time back in the classroom we will use for production.

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.

Today we will finish the 2nd half of the class.

11:30 DH3: Farm Concept Art for Asset Pack

DH3 will be Concept Art for Farm Asset Pack / Group project we will start on Thursday.

Asset packs are sets of 3D models that Game Designers / Animators can use when they don’t have the skills to create their work themselves, they are up against a time crunch, etc.

A Farm Asset pack is going to have Farm related 3D models to use in your productions.

This project is going to come in 3 parts:

Creation of Farm Concept Art as DH3 – on paper pre-production (W3)
Creation of the digital asset pack for the Farm – digital production (W3)
Working with a team to create the final Farm scene – digital production (W4)

What you will start today for DH3:

Create farm based concept art
Include concept art for 6 objects:
- 2 Structures
- 2 Crops
- 2 Mechanical / Vehicles

Your finished concept art will have a total of 6 elements on it, with your name and date in the corner.

When complete scan and save your file as (lastName)DH3.jpg

You will be pitching your Concept Art and your renders to your team next week. These visual aids will help you in your pitch to your team. Make sure you are proud of your work and ready to communicate with your group – just like in the real world.

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

Work on assigned CAWD work, get questioned answered, work on CAWD English, explore and create.

DH3: Farm Concept Art

(lastName)DH3.jpg

Week 3 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.