Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Happy Friday! Enjoy your weekends and we will see you on Monday, September 8th – with you having all of your work ready to turn in first thing!
- Friday’s Sylvie is going to be joining us. Mr. Bohmann wants Sylvie working as a student teacher in GAWD during these mornings, so she just another option to help with questions in Blender and anything that comes up.
- Remember it’s Friday – you end up in English after lunch! Back in your seats for our Speed Design.
- You will end up in English after lunch, and then back for our Speed Design.
- We didn’t have everyone hit the deadline for Speed Designs / Dailies yesterday. Remember this is part of your T&E grade – today let’s move to that render/save/upload process a bit earlier so everyone can get credit.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Value Contrast in Game Item Concept Art Exercise
This quick sketching exercise will practice our use of value, blending stumps, erasers, as well as get experience generating concept art.
In this short exercise to kick off our day, you are a Concept Artist working at Blizzard.
You need to create the concept art for a specific type of chair that will show up in the game. It is part of a foldable gyrocopter that you wear on your backpack while hiking around.
Take a clipboard, grab your art supplies, and create the concept art for this item. Be as accurate as you can and document reality itself, not your interpretation. I have 3 devices on the back tables so you can walk around and see from different angles, find a chair, just move your body.
Use Value Contrast so we have both white highlights in the idea, but also the darkest blacks. Value Contrast for an engaging image!
We are drawing until 10:30. 1, don’t rush, and 2 notice the people that aren’t trying as hard as they can, and are just finishing early. You don’t want to work with those people likely – just make a mental note.
You can’t touch the chairs – the way they are setup is the way they remain. You move around the subject to get different views to support your concept art.
These will be turned in by everyone before we hit Blender!
10:30 Blender
- Basics of 3 point lighting / Limitations of basic lights
- HDRI’s and Poly Haven for free HDRI’s. Tons of sites out there with resources we can use. Just got to find them.
10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)
11:00 Lord of the Scanner
- Teaching everyone how to scan, and put work on the public!
When not learning how to scan, you are going to be working on production.
11:35 A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow is a reader’s dream — a wonder-full, nuanced story full of wit, insight, and imagination.
Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.
11:55 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.
12:25 English
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 15 minute sprints in GAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production
Castle
- lastName_1.jpg through lastName_3.jpg
Design Homework 1: Free Sketch
- lastNameDH_1.jpg
Week 1 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
These 3 projects will be due on Monday, September 8th at the start of class.
2:15 Dailies
2:20 “19 Minutes”
Every day in GAWD will end with “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 the end I will 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened.
2:40 Dismissal
