Tuesday, October 14th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Happy Tuesday!
Neat animated lego art.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Unreal Engine Setup

Unreal Engine, UE5 current version, is a Game Engine that started out in AAA games only, but has slowly been moving more and more broad in reach and is now used for Indie games as well as the AAA megamonster games.

Some games created in Unreal Engine:

This is one of those pieces of software that we have to install after you get here – connects to an email, blah blah – so let’s take this AM and get it setup.

Same process at home.

Some of this time will be waiting for things to download – when / if this happens I use the time for production.

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 Blender

Intro to Particles
Animating on a path
Texture Paint Review (if we have time?)

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

Paper Airplane on path
- Tilt
Knife Tool

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

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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.