January 20th, 2022
This week I only had the opportunity to be in the classroom on Thursday, seeing as though the students did not have school on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and it being a new quarter. However, the time that I was in the classroom felt very rich and valuable. Since the new quarter just started I am able to be with these students from the beginning and I think that will be really great for our working relationships. The first class of the day was a Digital Comics class. Students had previously completed a short bio and illustrated headshot and a section of the class was spent hearing from students, and looking over those. I really enjoyed hearing students explain the choices they made when drawing their portraits. I felt like I was able to learn more about the student as they dived deeper into different artistic elements. The second class of the day was Animation and it was filled with great energy. I can tell that the students really enjoy Cameron’s teaching and look forward to his classes. During this class Cameron facilitated a discussion on what Limited Animation was and how sometimes a few frames can go a long way. I was amazed at what knowledge and insight students offered up and how applicable their input was when there aren’t strict things you’re listening for. Cameron and I then passed out little slips of paper with a noun and a verb and students then had 15 minutes to animate a two frame animation based on those words. The students were flustered due to the limited frame and time constraint, but they were good sports about it. We went through about three rounds of this exercise, and by the end of it you could really see that the student’s work had become more and more expressive and dynamic as time went on.