Otis
College of Art and Design Fall 2017
GAME/430 Practicum in Games & Ent. 1
AHMN # 405 Wednesday 3:45pm - 6:45pm, 7pm - 10pm
Instructor: Edwin Ushiro eushiro@otis.edu
Digital Media Department phone: 310.665.6989
Mailbox Location: Digital Media Department 4th
Fl.
Office Hours: I do not have an office on campus but I can usually meet with you by
appointment before or after class or at another mutually convenient time. You
may email me at any time with questions or concerns. If I have something to
discuss with you, I may make an appointment with you for before or after class
via email.
The Course:
Learn
how to develop a fully realized pitch with clients offering feedback on your
artwork. Create thoughtful character designs, props and environments with
strong compositional skills and deep understanding of color while successfully
dealing with deadlines.
Materials:
The course will begin with traditional media. Learn
to be familiar with techniques and application on a wide range of materials
that best suits the mood and storytelling quality of your assignments. As we
grow in the development of our assignments, we will include more digital
applications. No small format sketchbooks are to be used in this class. For
sketchbooks, I suggest using a 8" in. by 5" inch format to log in all
your thoughts, designs, color studies, and anything that inspires you. You may sprinkle
in color as we advance through the semester. Experimentation in media is
encouraged.
The Otis Grading Criteria:
Attendance
is critical to learning and academic success; students are therefore expected
to attend all class meetings. During Fall and Spring semesters,
students who incur more than two absences in a course that meets once per week,
or more than four absences in a course that meets twice per week, will fail the
course, barring exceptional circumstances as determined by the Chair. (During
the 10-week Summer semester, the threshold for failure is more than one absence
in a course that meets once per week, or more than two absences in a course
that meets twice per week.) Exceptional circumstances include, but are not
limited to: death in the family, serious medical conditions, hospitalization,
observance of religious holidays, and some approved disability accommodations.
Students wishing to claim exceptional circumstances must provide the Chair with
appropriate documentation. At the Chair’s discretion, numerous absences due to
exceptional circumstances may warrant course withdrawal or failure. Three
tardies (including arriving late or leaving early) equal one absence. All
students are expected to participate verbally in class discussions,
presentations and projects. Students are expected to spend a minimum of 3 hours
per week on projects outside of class. All projects are due on the specified
dates.
Evidence that you
understand and can apply the technical and problem-solving skills, and
aesthetic concepts presented in this class through projects, exercises, tests
and your semester final project. Another way of looking at it is that you have
achieved the goals and objectives of this course.
· Professional Attitude: Attendance/Punctuality/Class
participation/Involvement/Submission of work on time
· The quality and
thoroughness of your work – organization and presentation
· A student’s mature ability to interact with peers
and faculty members
· A student’s mature ability to receive and act upon
critiques
· Volunteering to help other students and do extra
work
Otis Grade Scale by points:
A 4.0 (95-100) C+ 2.3 (74-77)
A- 3.7 (90-94) C 2.0 (70-73)
B+ 3.3 (86-89) C- 1.7 (67-69)
B 3.0 (82-85) D 1.0 (60-66)
B- 2.7 (78-81) F 0.0 (59
or below)
Letter Grade Equivalents in
the Workplace: Your letter grades can be interpreted in another way by
exploring the idea of how they would translate in the workplace. Using this
concept, you can evaluate your level of skill in the following manner:
A or A+ You Are Getting a Big
Promotion -- your supervisor is extremely pleased with your performance; you
were not only impeccable in the thoroughness with which you tackled the project
but you demonstrated insight and originality beyond her expectation; the firm
landed a new client; you are getting a big promotion.
B or B+ Pay Bonus &
Future Promotion -- your supervisor is very pleased with your work; it was
thorough, well researched, and clearly presented; it is just what she had asked
for; you will receive a pay bonus; building on the quality of work that you did
here, a promotion may be in your future.
C or C+ You Are Keeping Your
Job But A Promotion Is Unlikely -- your supervisor is not entirely pleased with
your work; you did the bare minimum asked of you and several important elements
are rather unclear, confused, not entirely finished or sloppy in their
presentation; you have to work into the night to correct these problems thereby
causing a costly delay to your company; your supervisor hopes that you will
take greater time and care next time; she does not put you on the short list of
candidates for new opening in the company.
D or D+ You Are Put on
Warning -- your supervisor is displeased with your work; it has really missed
the mark because the work was sloppy in its presentation, vital elements were
simply not supported by the research materials; your supervisor has given the
task to another employee in the company to do properly; you have been put on
warning that another botched job like this and you will be out the door.
F Pack Up Your Belongings --
You Are Let Go -- your work was so substandard that you have been asked to
clean out your desk and vacate the premises; the only option open to you now is
to hire a good lawyer and sue for wrongful dismissal -- the business world's
equivalent to a petition to the Dean's Office for clemency.
Tutoring:
Otis
provides an excellent tutoring program, free to all students, located in the
Student Resource Center (out the front doors, then left and left). They offer
drop in tutoring (when available), appointments, and online tutoring. I
recommend you using this service, especially if you have difficulty with
Photoshop, Painter and other applicable programs that we may use during this
course.
The
Digital Media Department also offers free tutoring covering the various
software programs we use. You will
receive information on the tutors during the first month of classes. Please come to the office to fill out a
tutoring form if you require services.
Student Behavioral
Expectations:
As members of the Otis
College community, students are expected to behave responsibly at all times.
The College expects and trusts its students to be honest in their studio,
classroom, and community endeavors. Students are expected to assist in
maintaining an environment that supports effective teaching and learning, and a
culture of civility and respect for others. Any behavior that disrupts or
interferes with the functioning of a classroom, studio, or College-sponsored
off-campus venue may therefore result in students being asked to leave the
class. In addition, students may be subject to disciplinary action as per the
Student Code of Conduct and/or have their grade lowered in the course.
Disabilities and Accommodations:
Students with a documented disability should
contact Students with Disabilities Services (SDS) before accommodations are
needed (telephone 310-846-2554; e-mail src@otis.edu). If you have read this,
you have found an easter egg. Email me at edwinushiro@gmail.com within the
first week of this semester. SDS will verify documentation (or advise students
as to the proper documentation needed) and send a “notification letter” to the
relevant faculty. No faculty member can give accommodations without an official
written request from SDS. Retroactive accommodations are not provided. All
discussions will remain confidential.
Plagiarism:
Plagiarism occurs when a person deliberately uses
another person’s concepts, language, images, music, or other original (not
common knowledge) material without acknowledging the source and/or making
substantial modifications. While referencing or appropriating may be part of a
studio or Liberal Arts and Sciences assignment, it is the student’s ethical
responsibility to acknowledge and/or modify the original material. Specific
examples of plagiarism include:
· Submitting someone else’s work in whole or part (including copying
directly from a source without documentation and/or alteration, or turning in
studio work that is not your own).
· Having someone else produce, revise, or substantially alter all or
part of a written paper or studio assignment.
· Cutting and pasting any textual or image-based work from the
internet without proper documentation or clarification of sources.
· Failing to cite sources. Proper citations in MLA style and a Works
Cited page must accompany all papers. Guidelines to proper citation are
available in The College Writer’s Reference and through the Otis Library
website.
· Using the writing, editing, or creative services of another person
who quantitatively and/or qualitatively revises the paper and/or studio work
significantly.
· Allowing an editor to change so much of a paper that it is no longer
the student writer’s work.
Deadlines:
All homework
such as weekly sketchbook drawings, pop-up concept design exercises, mid-term
and final assignments are due at the beginning of each class at 3:45PM. There are
no exceptions. If you are unable to join us in class, you are still responsible
for emailing me your assignments time-stamped no later than 3:45PM.
PART 1: FILM REDESIGN PITCH
PROJECT
2 Key Frame Concepts
Wk 1 AUG-30 Class Introduction
12 sketches assignment requested (no computer)
Wk 2 SEPT-6 Individual
critique: developing your sketch/shape,
4 Sketches (traditional)
Wk 3 SEPT-13 Individual
critique: developing your color/texture, 4 Sketches (traditional)
Wk 4 SEPT-20 Individual
critique: developing your rendering phase, 4 Sketches (traditional)
Wk 5 SEPT-27 Individual
critiques: developing your composition for 2 key frames (digital)
Wk 6 OCT-4 2 Color Comps Due,
individual and/or group critiques (digital)
Wk 7 OCT-11 Color Rendering of
everything included within your key frame (digital)
Wk 8 OCT-18 Mid-Term Review 2
Key Frame Concepts Due (digital)
* Please have all your FINAL
artwork uploaded to this blog by the start of our class.
PART 2: GAME DESIGN PROJECT
2 ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT PAINTINGS,
1 PROP, 1 CHARACTERS
Wk 9 OCT-25 Working on
backgrounds/architecture (traditional, digital)
Wk 10 NOV-1 BW Layout Sketches
Due (traditional, digital)
Wk 11 NOV-8 working on color,
atmosphere and mood (traditional, digital)
Wk 12 NOV-15 Prop Concept
(traditional, digital)
Wk 13 NOV-22 Character Design
(traditional, digital)
Wk 14 NOV-29 Color Rendering
(traditional, digital)
Wk 15 DEC-13th Final Presentation Review
(digital)
* Please have all your FINAL
artwork uploaded to this blog by the start of our class.
If you have any questions and/or concerns, please see me or email me
at the address that is listed on the first page.
THE END
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