Tuesday, October 10th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Welcome to Week 7! Let’s all make our folders.
Do you know where and when you have WorkKeys?
- Who is testing today? (Hint – nobody)
- Who is testing tomorrow?

Who is taking the tests, and which random testing group:

Where and when the testing group is testing:

Where are the testing locations?

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.

3 Animations with sound

(lastName)3Animations.mp4

DH6: Natural and Human worlds

(lastName)DH6.jpg

Week 6 Agency

(lastName)Agency_1.jpg
(lastName)Agency_2.jpg
(lastName)Agency_3.jpg

10:30 Unreal

Terrain Review
Blueprint Review

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 Phoenix will give Constructive Criticism.

Tomorrow Tobi will.

11:30 DH7: Inktober

Jake Parker created Inktober in 2009 as a challenge to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year.

This week we are going to use INK (pen, marker) for our Design Homework. Doesn’t have to be special – any old pen will do.

Here are the 2023 prompts you are going to get to choose from:

When you have finished your sketch, I want you to include your name and date as always, but also the words “Inktober | Prompt” so we know which prompt you chose – and others will know in the future.

Save your file as (lastName)DH7.jpg.

11:35 Partner Based Project: A portal between the Natural and Human worlds

This week you are going to work with a partner to create a divergent multi-level game environment separated by a portal. One level will be Organic with a landscape, one level will be more Human with flat world, hard edged objects, etc.

The “Portal” can be any design you wish, and will contain a trigger box that allows the third person player to jump between the two worlds.

Your team will create a Game Trailer (sound designed) and print screens from UE that show off your work.

There will be two main roles:

3D Modeler / Asset Creator

Build assets in Blender
Export for Level Designer

Level Designer

Create the levels, from the landscapes to the asset importing and placement
Programming the functionality
Create the final MP4 through OBS (30 seconds minimum that demonstrates all your work and the portal functionality)
Create 3 print screens from Unreal that are visually interesting and make your words look as good ass they could

And a third job that one of the two needs to do:

Sound Designer

Sound Design the trailer, and trim any OBS evidence at the start and the end in Premiere

At the end you will have 4 deliverables that your team will turn in (both partners)

(lastName)(lastName)naturalHuman.mp4 – the sound designed trailer
(lastName)(lastName)naturalHuman_1.jpg – still of your project from UE
(lastName)(lastName)naturalHuman_2.jpg – still of your project from UE
(lastName)(lastName)naturalHuman_3.jpg – still of your project from UE

Start by getting together with your partner. Share your concept art (DH6), and talk about the direction of the project, the roles, and what each of you are going to do first. GO!

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

Partner Based Project: A portal between the Natural and Human worlds

(lastName)(lastName)naturalHuman.mp4 – the sound designed trailer
(lastName)(lastName)naturalHuman_1.jpg – still of your project from UE
(lastName)(lastName)naturalHuman_2.jpg – still of your project from UE
(lastName)(lastName)naturalHuman_3.jpg – still of your project from UE

DH7: Inktober

(lastName)DH6.jpg

Week 7 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.