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Week 2 - Random Fish

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This week, after presentations, we made a fish.  We used box modeling to make the fins, cones for the teeth, and a sphere for the body.  If we threw some materials on it, it would probably look better, but we ran out of time.

Week 1 - First Post, Last Semester

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It's our first week in the last semester of high school, so, naturally, we made a bunch of exploding mountains.  To make the volcanos, we mostly used generic shapes like cone, spheres, and planes.  We threw in a few bombs to blow stuff up, and some really cool textures, courtesy of Google, to make the rocks and lava.  Then, I wrote this paragraph.

Week 17 - Final Post

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So, for the last post of the semester, we acted like it wasn't any different from a regular post.  Because it isn't.  We've made yet another volcano, and will soon start putting these clips into Premiere.  It won't be as awesome as our Monkey was, but it's going to be pretty awesome.  Just picture it:  a good thirty to sixty seconds of fire and explosions.

Speaking of bad segues, Happy Holidays.

Week 15 - Major Setbacks

Max has been AWOL for about two weeks now.  We watched half of a movie to pass the time, hoping that it would come back, but...  It's safest to just assume it's dead, and move on.  Maya has been kind to us, and we're thinking of starting a more long term relationship.  We made fire and lightning, but figuring out how to render it was awful, so if the video doesn't work, blame Maya.

Week 14 - Minor Setbacks

This week, we couldn't get into Max because the class' license expired.  We tryed using a different program, Autodesk Maya, but it crashed for us on Day 1 and wouldn't start up again.  So we spent the week using Kuder Navigator, a program to help people, mostly students, explore their future.  It gives quick exams, takes your answers, and tells you where you are strongest.  It then gives you a list of potential jobs and their median pay.  It told me I should be a teacher, either Math or Science, but I'd be okay with English too, and I heartily agree.  It looks like I'll need at least a Bachelor's, since I want to teach in a high school.  Oh well.

Next week, we'll hopefully be back to making enourmous mountains that explode.

Week 12 - Something Scientific

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We've started working on the Scientific Animation.  We chose volcanoes, beause hey...  Volcanos...  We're going to start throwing descriptions and materials on these, then we're probably going to have to split 'em up and render out clips.  As for this picture, they're almost all cones that we've bent up a bit using the Editable Poly modifier.  Two of them are planes, tweaked with the same modifier.  One is a sphere cut in half.  I'll throw some scientific terms at you next week.

Week 11 - Passing the Time

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This week we weren't working on a big project.  This time, we're just filling the space between the last one and the next.

We took a sphere and a few boxes and threw the Mass FX modifier on them.  The sphere rolled down the boxes and hit a button, which we auto-keyed.  The button cause a "hose" to expand, pushing a box off the ledge, the box landed on a ramp that launched another sphere into a cone.  All of this was done with auto-keying.