Tuesday, May 27th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Welcome to Week 34! Let’s make our folders.
Our end of year CTE Recognition Night is Thursday, June 12th at 6:30pm. It’s a wonderful way to celebrate our time together, take some photos, win scholarships, and kick off the summer! Please make sure to get off work, and let family know ahead of time.
We are at the point people. No more Agencies, we are done them for the year….
We are also stopping PM Articles until we finish “Jobs”… meaning we may be done with PM articles. Afternoon Attendance right to “Jobs”.
MJ – don’t forget you get an hour lunch 11:55! GG.
All missing work / current work / anything you want credit for must be turned in by Friday June 6th EOD. There are no exceptions, there is no extra time, I have to get your grades to your sending schools – some of you need these credits to graduate…

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks

Integration with PHP

lastNamePHP inside your htdocs folder

DH 33: Hair

lastNameDH_33.jpg

Week 33 Agency

lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg

During Capstone production and the afternoon I will come over and you will show me your PHP Integration project on your local machine.

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.

This won’t take as long as we only have 2 non-PHP projects, all timelines moved up likely…

11:30 Design Homework 34: Ratios

Ratios are crucial when laying out a human face—whether you’re drawing, modeling, or analyzing it—because they help achieve proportional accuracy, realism, and aesthetic appeal.

We can use and some classic ratios to to ensure that we have correct symmetry, eye spacing, facial feature placement, and proportions in general.

This week look up “Portrait Ratios” or “Portrait Proportions” and create a blocky face that demonstrates you used (and show) the correct spacing and proportions.

For this we WANT to see your construction lines. We WANT to see your little notes about ratios, spacing, etc.

Yes!

For full credit, leave the construction lines and notes about the ratios right on your sheet of paper. It demonstrates to me (and other humans) that you aren’t just shooting from the hip. You are demonstrating that you KNEW what you were doing, not just saying “did I do good?” and hoping.

No.

Save your file as lastNameDH_34.jpg.

This is due Monday as normal next week.

11:35 GAWD Capstone

A Capstone project is a final, culminating assignment that students typically complete at the end of an academic program (high school, college, or graduate school). It’s designed to demonstrate what they’ve learned through research, problem-solving, and practical application of their knowledge.

It combines integration of knowledge, independent work, and presentation.

While the topic is completely up to you, here are some ground rules.

You must learn at least one new technical or artistic technique, and be ready to talk about it at presentations.
If you choose to do something Web Related, it will be counted toward your Web Design college grade. This could be very helpful for some of you…
If you choose to do something non-web related, it will count as an agency, just not toward your Web Design grade.

Maxx and Trevor you use this time for Skills prep for Nationals. GDD, Trailers, resumes, display – all of this will be completed during this window of time.

This is your penultimate project in GAWD. What did you love most about our coursework? What haven’t you had enough of? How could this connect to a career goal? How could this just be a fun week of independent learning on something YOU want to learn about?

New Program possibilities:

After Effects
Unity
Etc

Topic possibilities:

Web (connects to Web college class)
3D Art
Game Dev – make a racing game?
Game Dev – get a custom character from Blender -> UE?
Simulation Animation
Marker work
Traditional Art
3D Story Based Animation
Sketchbook work
Caleb stuff
Digital Art
Digital Painting
Character Development
World Building
Geometry Nodes and Geometry Nodes and Geometry Nodes!
2D Animation
3D Character Walk Cycle
AI – learn and practice 4-5 of the new AI models out there. Demonstrate what you could do.
Crab Rave
Etc

This is a really open ended, creative way to demonstrate your knowledge, and to learn and incorporate MORE knowledge.

The greater you push yourself, the greater your grade.

If you give us something that we have seen agency after agency, it won’t carry the same gravity as if you really did something new and unique. Full warning.

You are going to create a folder called lastNameCapstone, and put your project there to turned at the END OF THE DAY next Monday June 2nd. **If using a web server based project, keep in your XAMPP folder and I will come to you.

Note that you will get Monday of next week to work on your Capstone (so you have a full 5 days) and we will present on Tuesday AM.

Let’s say that by Wednesday (tomorrow) at lunch I must have topics from students. I will need to know (and you will stick to):

What your medium / main theme is for your Capstone? (3D, 2D, Game Design, Hand Drawn Art, etc)
What is the new learning that you are going to do? Learned how to do use Post Process Volumes in Unreal to push really interesting visual effects, etc.

11:55 Study Guide

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

1:00 Steve Jobs

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years–as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues–Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur

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

Capstone – due EOD Monday, June 2nd

in folder called lastNameCapstone

DH 34: Ratios – due at break Monday, June 2nd

lastNameDH_34.jpg

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.