Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

Today we are working on submitting work into the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards so make sure the work is submitted by midnight tomorrow!

National Art Honor Society- Handmade Holiday Cards

In National Art Honor Society we will be creating 20 handmade holiday cards for our local Adopt-A-Family program this week leading up to Thanksgiving and completing our Wyland mural painting as well as the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards which are both due on December 3.

Digital Media: Video Game Design

In Digital Media we are working on creating and coding our Video Game Designs for the upcoming Scholastic art and writing awards, below are the requirements and the game is due this Friday November 2 and the final entry for extra credit is due to be uploaded by Tuesday, December 4, 2018.

Video Game Design

Category Description

An interactive media experience that makes use of gameplay and digital media (e.g., visual art, sound design, digital storytelling, etc.). This category also includes conceptual designs of playable games.

Special Instructions

• Video Game Design submissions must be playable games or conceptual designs of playable games.
• Conceptual designs include, but are not limited to, character designs, game scripts, gameplay diagrams, or any combination of those.
• Students may create playable games using the software or coding language of their choice. Some examples of these are: Scratch, Flash, Ren’py, Game Salad, Unity, and Game Maker.
• Alternatively, students may submit playable games in another platform where the final game can be played by the judges on a browser or a PC without the purchase of any proprietary software or having to register for a private community.

Submissions

• If you are submitting a playable game, you can upload one file (.exe, .zip, .rar, or .swf). You must also enter a 250-500 word gameplay summary in the provided text editor and a gameplay video of your game being played no longer than 5 minutes in length.
• If you are submitting conceptual designs, you can upload up to eight images and/or text documents. We highly recommend that you enter a description of your concept and its parts in the field provided on the upload page. This will ensure jurors can understand your work during judging.

Collaboration

Video Game Design submissions can include up to 5 collaborators. A collaborative Video Game Design entry should only be registered ONCE for judging: choose one student to create an account and upload the work -- this student can then identify up to four collaborators on the Edit Info page.
If the other collaborators are not listed when the work is submitted they will not be eligible to receive an Award.  For students using SCRATCH here's a really helpful forum with some help in creating and coding the game: SCRATCH FORUM

And if you're trying to make a game on code.org then you can use this tutorial below:

Scholastic art and writing awards

Today is the announcement for the Scholastic art and writing awards regional winners and I am very proud to announce that we won an all-time record for our school- 8 Gold Key awards, 3 Silver Key awards, and 2 Honorable Mention awards.  A big congratulations to the following students:

Luke Gelfman-
1  Gold Key in Design
3 Gold Keys in Drawing and Illustration
1 Silver Key in Drawing and Illustration

Anna Koke-
1 Gold Key in Printmaking

Danielle Napoli-
2 Gold Keys in  Printmaking
1 Honorable Mention in Photography

Kelsey Opinante-
1 Silver Key in Comic Art

Stephanie Rowe-
1 Silver Key in Comic Art

Ilysa Sirota-
1 Honorable Mention in Mixed Media

Jamie Werner-
1 Gold Key in Fashion

Scholastic Art and Writing 2015 Regional Winners

Congrats to Luke, Rose, Troy, Andrew, Jamie and Kristin from Mr. Needles AP Art, Drawing and Studio Art classes on winning regional awards in the 2015 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Media Arts: Video Game Design

This week we will work on video game design and motion graphic in media art class and we'll be entering some of the games we create into the annual Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.  We will begin with a simple program that introduces the basics called Gamestar Mechanic.  A few of our alumni have found interesting and creative jobs in the field of game design so we will look at their work and see what it takes to really create an amazing video game from the art and creative side.

Also for any students that are interested in photography the Photo Forum magazine high school photography contest closes tomorrow!