Monday, October 28th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Welcome to Monday, Week 10, and the 2nd Quarter!
4 day week, ending on Halloween!
Adobe AM‘s will be Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week.
Everyone remember that because of our short week you will only get 80% of the in class time to do your 3 CAWD projects. Work at home! The kids that are getting the A’s, going to college, and getting careers in our industries aren’t just working until 2:15.
Tomorrow is the author presentation and gift (signed book, that is pretty nice).
- Here are the students that are signed up to go from Ms. McCadden. We will let you go to lunch a little early to accommodate.
  - Lion (maybe? – need to tell me so I can tell Ms. McCadden)
  - Isaiah
  - Caleb
  - Mallory (maybe? – need to tell me so I can tell Ms. McCadden)
  - Max
  - Sebastian
  - Adrian
  - Jacob (maybe? – need to tell me so I can tell Ms. McCadden)
- Here are the no students that will have class and lunch as normal:
  - Trevor
  - Collin
  - MJ
  - Stark
Trevor math canceled today – just stay in CAWD.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:05 Attendance and Last Looks

Character Creation

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DH9: Segmented and Connected Character Concept Art

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Week 9 Agency

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10:30 Blender

Review of Karl (skin character with armature)

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

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.

11:30 Quarter 2 Design Homework Focus – Perspective

To review from September 3rd, as part of our traditional art curriculum in CAWD we use Champlain Colleges’s Game Art & Animation Portfolio requirements as our guidepost to practice traditional art that has logical utility. Champlain is the most popular local option for CAWD students over the last 10 years, and what they are looking for in their Portfolios is common to other schools like SCAD, RISD, MECA, etc.

Quarter 1 – Introduction. Using the tools, learning about the scanner, getting comfortable with a sketchbook, art supplies, etc.

Quarter 2 – Perspective. 1, 2 and 3 point perspective. Taught in a traditional stand and deliver teaching environment. I lead with lessons in front of the class.

Quarter 3 – Still Life’s. What goes into a classic still life? Taught through online YouTube resources. The ability to learn while outside traditional education environments (on your own, or to extend class material) is incredibly important. I curate the videos in Q3.

Quarter 4 – Portraits. Weekly I give you the topics and it is up to you learn and apply the topic. The most likely way is self selecting your own YouTube resources, but you could talk to an artist, go get extra help from an art teacher, jump in their Discord, whatever you need to do to learn on your own, and create a project demonstrating your new skills. Learning how to learn will be very important to you in your career.

We are looking for an hour of work on your Sketch Effort is easily apparent, and your work is presented each and every week.

Today we will start working with 1 Point perspective.

11:45 DH10: Floating Boxes

For DH10 I want to create 10 floating boxes / rectangles that are floating around the screen.

Make sure your vertical and horizonal lines are … vertical and horizontal, and the lines that are creating depth that are going into the background must point towards our singular vanishing point (the 1 in 1 point perspective).

Save your file as lastNameDH_10.jpg.

11:50 Blender

Modeling Boxo the center of mass box character.
Creating the armature.
Setting up a vertex group to control what moves, and what doesn’t.
Parenting with the armature, and using a hula hoop empty as an animation handle for the body.

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

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.

1:20 Afternoon Break (10 minutes)

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

DH10: Floating Boxes

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Week 10 Agency

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2:15 Dailies

2:20 “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 2:39 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.