Monday
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SNOW DAY! |
Tuesday
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Students will finish twitter bird. Finish Twitter bird together Assignment: Cartoon Character Creation Create your own cartoon character or find a character to duplicate |
Wednesday
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SNOW DAY! |
Thursday
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Students will create a cartoon character using Illustrator. Assignment: Cartoon Character Creation Create your own cartoon character or find a character to duplicate Hints/Tricks: Use the layers and name them Enhancements like gradients, drop shadows, filters (textures) will add to the overall look of the character Use tutorials on this website for help |
Friday
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Students will finish the Cartoon Character and begin recreating a logo Assigmnment: Finish up and turn in the PDF of your Cartoon New: Duplicate Logo (HINT: to get the zig zag on the circle, draw the circle first, then click on effects > distort & transform > zig zag – play with the different options to find the right look to match the logo). |
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Students will finish the Cartoon Character and begin recreating a logo Assigmnment: Finish up and turn in the PDF of your Cartoon New: Duplicate Logo (HINT: to get the zig zag on the circle, draw the circle first, then click on effects > distort & transform > zig zag – play with the different options to find the right look to match the logo). |
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Students will begin the final project in Illustrator Introduce: Illustrator Final (Movie Logo / Poster) Final Reflection Take your time on this! DUE Friday 2/13 REMINDER: Friday is the last day I will accept any missing work from Illustrator. |
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Students will work on the final project in Illustrator Introduce: Illustrator Final (Movie Logo / Poster) Final Reflection Take your time on this! DUE Friday 2/13 REMINDER: Friday is the last day I will accept any missing work from Illustrator. |
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Students will work on the final project in Illustrator Introduce: Illustrator Final (Movie Logo / Poster) Final Reflection Take your time on this! DUE Friday 2/13 REMINDER: Friday is the last day I will accept any missing work from Illustrator. |
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Students will turn in the final project in Illustrator Introduce: Illustrator Final (Movie Logo / Poster) Final Reflection Take your time on this! DUE Today!!! REMINDER: Friday is the last day I will accept any missing work from Illustrator. |
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Students will begin learning PhotoShop Introduce: duplicate image/layer, move, size, zoom, adjustments, color, brushes, properties, psd & jpg Begin Together: Create an Invitation Create a Trendy Circle Brush (see Tutorial) REMINDER: Today is the last day I will accept any missing work from Illustrator. |
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Students will finish the Invitation Finish Trendy Circle Brush tutorial together Assignment: Finish the Invitation Prom Invite (Saturday, 4/11 at 8:30pm at Plymore Ballroom Save as a psd and jpg in your Photoshop folder Copy the jpg to your “hand in” folder |
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Students will learn about clipping masks Introduce: selection tools, gradients, text mask, shape/clipping mask, filters, and other enhancements |
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Students will work with design tools. Review gradients, selection tools, and enhancements (e.g., drop shadow, stroke, etc.) Learn how to make text and shape masks and how to add filters to layers/images Assignment: Spring Collage Must contain 6 images that represent fall and one title that is a text mask Must have a gradient background Apply a filter to each image Use this document to help with how to do custom shape and text clipping masks. -REMINDER: TODAY is the last day I will accept any missing work from Illustrator. |
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Students will finish the Spring Collage Assignment: Spring Collage Must contain 6 images that represent fall and one title that is a text mask Must have a gradient background Apply a filter to each image Use this document to help with how to do custom shape and text clipping masks. -REMINDER: TODAY is the last day I will accept any missing work from Illustrator. |
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Students will begin working with Threshold. Urban Ink Photo Tutorial - Use the Video to complete the tutorial - practice using the stock photo - Both are found in “read only” When complete, save as a psd and jpg and copy jpg to “to be graded” folder |
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Students will work on the Urban Ink Assignment Assignment: Turn in Urban Ink when you finished using the stock photo, Find your own photo and create a new Urban Ink Photo |
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Alternate Schedule - Class will be 100 min. Students will begin the Clone Project. Introduce the Clone project and go through and example. Begin taking pictures using Tri Pods and Cameras Assignment: Clone Project |
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Student will work on the Clone Project Assignment: Clone Project |
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Students will finish and turn in the Clone assignment. Finish assignment: Clone Project – Assignment: NETA Conference Logo Contest Come up with an original design for the NETA logo using Illustrator or Photoshop The theme or focus should be “NETA…On the Move” NOTE: 4 color max (see #2 on handout) All is created from scratch (no clipart, etc.) Visit the NETA website to learn more about the organization Feel free to look at previous contest winners artwork (however their theme last year was Ignite Learning) |