Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Week 10 and the Second Quarter! Let’s all make our new folders.
- Saurab – remember you have to go to your Senior Portfolio class today and today only, and then you can just do the work on your own. M117. Just go right from lunch.
- Heads up the total for the dum-dum competition was 116.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 New Seats!
Once you arrive plug everything back in, and make sure your cables are run through the monitor in the back. If your station is a mess of cables it has to be redone.
Turn off computer, unplug the cables – the only thing that moves is the black computer case and your art supplies.
What stays: mouse, keyboard, tablets, monitor.
We will move students 1 jump at a time so everyone isn’t bumping into each other with heavy computers.
10:?? Last Looks
Sky Level and Collectable
- lastNameMultiLevelDemo.mp4
Design Homework 9: The Collectable
- lastNameDH_9.jpg
Week 9 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
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 Quarter 2 Design Homework Focus – Perspective
As part of our traditional art curriculum in GAWD 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 GAWD 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.
An example of using 1 Point Perspective in a more finished fine art piece:
11:50 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.
11:55 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 Get Illustrator Installed
12:35 Unreal
- Intro to Widgets
12:50 A Gentleman in Moscow
Imagine being sentenced to spend your life inside a luxury hotel. In A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Count Alexander Rostov faces exactly that. Trapped in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel after the Russian Revolution, he builds unexpected friendships and watches history unfold outside. The novel asks an important question: Can you still build a meaningful life when your freedom is taken away?
A class read-along gives us a chance to slow down, disconnect from screens, and get lost in a great book together. As we read, you’ll naturally build your vocabulary, strengthen your reading skills, and experience a story.
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in GAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production
Design Homework 10: 10 Floating Boxes in 1-Point
- lastNameDH_10.jpg
Week 10 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
