Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Week 9! Lets make our folders now.
- Today we have to practice getting off a bus. Literally. I’m not kidding.
- I need ALL work from Quarter 1 turned in by Friday END OF DAY! The quarter is ending. I have to stay after school Friday and pull some levers, and send grades to South Burlington, Essex, Colchester, CVU, etc. Even if your plan says “extended time” on assignments – congratulations, but the even extended time for Q1 work has to have an end date. Friday is the date.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Last Looks
Last looks is when I give students time to upload their completed work to the weekly folder on the public, in a folder that is your last name. Remember we aren’t doing any work today – this is just when we turn it in. Plan on not doing more than scan / upload each Monday morning – and the scanner may have a line!
One of 2 files:
- “lastNameBridge.mp4” if doing the Covered Bridge Introduction
- “lastNameCart.mp4” if doing the Design Competition
10:40 Bus Evacuation Drill
- We will go to break right after we practice jumping off the bus.
- If you spontaneously combust while jumping off the bus – you will not get break.
10:50 Morning Break
11:00 Critiques
Each week we will upload our work on Monday. I will then present your work to the class. Each project I will pick a student to practice 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.
11:30 DH9: Cauldron Concept Art
This week’s Design Homework is Concept Art for an upcoming project. You are to design a cauldron.
A cauldron is a large, round metal pot, usually made of cast iron, that was traditionally used for boiling or cooking over an open fire. Historically, people used cauldrons to prepare soups, stews, and other meals. In folklore and mythology, cauldrons often symbolize magic, transformation, or rebirth, as seen in tales like the witches’ cauldron in Macbeth or the Celtic “Cauldron of Rebirth.” Today, cauldrons are mostly used for decoration, especially around Halloween, or as fire pits and camping cookware.
Today you are going to start creating Concept Art for a Cauldron. This Cauldron design will have to include at a minimum a side and 3/4 view. Feel free to add in a top view if you wish, but not required.
This Cauldron Concept Art will be used this week:
- Will be created in Blender, and exported.
- Will go into Unreal Engine and demonstrated as your GAWD project using OBS.
- Will be used Thursday AM during our Adobe AM time to digitally paint for color and shading using Blending Modes. If you don’t have your Cauldron Concept Art complete by Thursday start of class you will have to paint yours on your own time. I will have something else for you to paint – will be due at break.
The Cauldron Concept Art will be required to use color, and we will do that together on Thursday morning.
Save your file as lastNameDH_9.jpg – this will be saved out of Photoshop – not just the scan.
11:35 Unreal Engine
- How files are stored – let’s get rid of the extra projects we created earlier that we don’t need.
- Make a new project, make a new level.
- Run around and explore.
- Pin engine to task bar?
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 Attendance and Article
12:30 End of Quarter Gradebook Check and Production Time
I am going to give you this slice of time Monday and Tuesday this week for everyone to log into their gradebooks, check to make sure you have everything turned in, and work to get any missing work turned in.
As it is the last week of Quarter 1 I will accept missing work all 5 days this week. Just turn it in on the public and let me know.
If you are a cool kid and have everything turned in – use the time as a gift for production.
12:50 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.
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production
Cauldron Concept Art
- lastNameDH_9.jpg
Week 9 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
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
