Do your school use a rubrick system for grading?

We kind of use the same system but we might break a project down into the model, lighting and animation with animation always being the vast majority of that breakdown. From there I would take away points for not meeting deadlines to come up with the final grade.

I just have a hard time breaking the grade down into smaller sub-sections. For me it what is my initial impression when I look at the finished piece and how impressive is it. If any of your sub-sections weren't up to par it wouldn't be that impressive and the grade would be lower.

I have no problem telling a student why I felt they deserved any grade I give them but I don't like having to justify it with a percentage when I hand out the grade. Even when I did do it with more of a rubrick I found myself fudging the numbers to make sure I got the grade I wanted so what was the point.

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I find the laid out percentages useful, and their largest value (imo) is when you lay them out in advance for the students. Not coincidentally, I try to make them line-up fairly well with production landmarks: ie. the story-marks are tied to the storyboard/animatic, art direction with mood boards, character design with a turnaround, etc.
I'm starting now at a school with much less structure than I'm used to, so we'll see how that goes.