Tuesday, May 26th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Welcome to Week 33! Let’s make our folders now…
This is our final week of 3 projects, as we start to wind down:
- GAWD Portfolio (final Web project of year)
  - This is taking over your Residential Building Technology site on the GAWD Dev Server, when we start this tomorrow this has to take over your client work. If you wanted to improve your RBT client work grade you have two options:
    - Get it fixed in the next 12 hours or so before you start your Portfolio Wednesday
    - Hand code a fix the for RBT after the next 12 hours, which would be a real pain in the butt.
    - Accept the 65 and move on with life.
- Capstone First Draft (end of the year Agency with presentational element – Week 1 of 2)
- Final Portrait (final DH of the year)

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks

Group Game Development: Cookie Clicker Variant

a folder called lastNamelastNameClicker

Team will come up and present, and we will ask a rando to come up and play their game live and see how it plays.

DH32: Hair

lastNameDH_32.jpg

Week 32 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 DH33 – Final Portrait

As our Final Design Homework of the year, you are going to sketch your Final Portrait. Topic is up to you, make it the best you can while thinking of human realism as your root style.

When we present this for grade next week you will turn in your baseline portrait from earlier in the quarter, and we will compare the before and after.

The after is better than before? Good – you will do well.

The after is the same as before? Meh. Middling at best.

The after is worse than before? Very bad. You have shamed your family.

Save your file as lastNameDH_33.jpg.

11:35 Study Guide

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 Capstone First Draft

To end our year together in GAWD we do what is called a Capstone Project.

A capstone project is a final, comprehensive assignment that students complete at the end of a course, degree program, or training program. It’s designed to show that they can apply what they’ve learned to a real-world problem, research topic, or practical task.

Think of this as a big Agency. You get a first draft (due next Monday June 1st EOD), and a final draft and presentation (due next-next Friday June 5th).

The Capstone is a 2-week project, with a draft and final grade. Whatever you start working on this week you will continue working on next week.

Tuesday – May 26th (today) Capstone Assigned and topics selected (made public and locked in)
Monday – June 1st Capstone Draft 1 due at the end of the day on the Public
Tuesday – June 2nd Capstone Draft 1 presentations to start the day
Friday – June 5th Final Capstone Presentations in the AM, and final, end of year last looks in the PM.

Next week (June 1st through 5th) you will be working on your Capstone only – it will be our final project for the year, and will be presented to the class on Friday before we head to lunch.

For now save and work, and be ready to present in the medium that you are choosing:

MP4 for animations
Still images for static renders or art
High quality scans if doing traditional art
etc.

You will organize and submit your work in a folder called lastNameCapstoneFirstDraft.

Of all the topics, technologies, fields and subjects we covered, which would you like to focus your effort on over the next 2 weeks?

Let’s lock into topics Wednesday morning! Give you overnight to marinate on the issue.

12:50 Jobs

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson tells the story of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and his impact on technology, animation, and design. The biography explores his creativity, leadership, and work with Apple and Pixar, helping create products and films that changed modern culture.

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

Capstone First Draft

folder called lastNameCapstoneFirstDraft

DH33: Final Portrait

lastNameDH_33.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.