Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Week 7! Let’s all make our folders now…
- We have a 5-day week of school this week. Standard normalcy.
- NEXT week (Week 8) we will have a 3-day week and have NO Agency or Design Homework. You only have class Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday of NEXT week.
- I realize we are going to run into some PSAT / SAT testing, when you do you are excused from class, just remember the work will be due on Monday. So hustle in class, use before class lunch, or work at home to handle your responsibilities.
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!
Face and Facial Animations
- lastNameFacialEmotions.mp4
DH6: Inktober
- lastNameDH_6.jpg
(Shelby picked #5 Deer)
Week 6 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
10:35 Blender
- Intro to texture painting
- Node Wrangler
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 DH7: Free Sketch
Throughout the year we will have chances for free sketches – art is creative, and I realize you have your ideas.
This week your DH topic is up to you:
- Fine art piece
- Concept art
- Logos brainstorms for your brand / porfolio
- Concept art for a game you want to build for the VT SkillsUSA Competition
- Something abstract / text based / graffiti tag / … anything.
Medium is likely to be in sketchbook, but we have markers, pastels, colored pencils, pens… think different maybe?
Save your file as lastNameDH_7.jpg.
11:35 Blender
- Basics of parenting
- (Forward Kinematic) FK animation
- Empties
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 Blender
- Radial Arrays with an empty
- Submarine propeller for Sub Nautica 43, “The Underwatering”.
- Radial Array
- Rotation using Cycles modifier, so it animates forever
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
DH7: Free Sketch
- lastNameDH_7.jpg
Week 7 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
