# Week 16 — Tuesday, December 8 ### Final Project Review · Portfolio walkthrough · Exit consultation > Fall final exam week runs December 7–13. This is our final meeting. --- ## Focus Present the finished work. Look at the whole semester. Decide what comes next. --- ## Due today — before 9:00 AM **Project 3 — Final Render (10 points)** 1. The finished piece, exported to submission standards and **added to your online portfolio** 2. Breakdown material from your Week 12 capture plan 3. Process documentation — 8–12 images or clips 4. Written reflection, 750–1,000 words --- ## Bring to class - Everything loaded and ready **before 9:00**. This is a presentation, not a work session. - Your online portfolio, updated and live - Your Week 3 career audit and gap statement --- ## In class **Final project reviews.** Both students present. Two-minute walkthrough, structured as a portfolio review: - What it is - What gap it fills - What was hard, and how you solved it - What you would do next with it Then the piece plays uninterrupted, then questions. **Full-semester portfolio walkthrough.** Your portfolio, start to finish, with the semester's work integrated. We look at: - What the portfolio showed in August versus what it shows now - Whether the Week 3 gap is closed, partly closed, or still open - What role this portfolio currently qualifies you for - What the next piece should be **Exit consultation.** Individual and specific. Concrete next steps toward the role named in your Week 3 audit — what to build, what to learn, and in what order. --- ## What you leave with Three finished pieces: a recreation demonstrating that you can hit a professional target, a published tutorial demonstrating that you understand your own process well enough to teach it, and an original work built to close a specific gap. Plus a portfolio that has been examined honestly twice, by you and by someone else, and a written plan for what comes after this course. --- ## Note — after this course The forward plan matters more than the grade. You are leaving a structure that produced weekly deadlines, weekly critique, and weekly direction. None of that exists in January unless you build it. The people who keep improving after graduation are the ones who reconstruct some version of it: a self-imposed deadline, someone whose critique they trust, and a specific next piece already chosen. Pick the next piece before you leave today. Write down when it will be finished. That single act does more for the next six months than anything else available to you right now. Good work this semester.