Yr 1 Chloe Hebert Animation Journal

 Over the last two weekends, my friends and I went to a couple museums together  First up was the National Museum of Scotland! There wasn't anything in this one that we specifically wanted to see. We just thought it would be a fun outing, and it was! We spent about 2.5 hours wandering around. There was such a wide variety of topics on display, so there is definitely something for everyone. I was surprised to find that they even had Alaskan artifacts. I'm used to seeing them in the museum back home in Anchorage, but seeing them halfway across the world in Scotland was sort of funny. Not what I would have expected from a museum in Edinburgh. Of course, we couldn't leave without taking a photo with Dolly: Next was the Scottish National Gallery. One of my friends specifically wanted to go see the painting Christ in the House of Martha and Mary by Johannes Vermeer, mostly because he suspected it was a fake and wanted to  investigate for himself. I personally just lo...

  My idea for this assignment is a little ambitious. In Alaska, where I'm from, there is a mountain called Mount Susitna. Its nicknamed the Sleeping Lady because it looks like a woman sleeping on her side. The story goes that there used to be giants roaming the earth, and that the mountain was one. She was engaged to a man who had to go of to fight. She promised to wait in that exact spot for him, and eventually fell asleep there. Word came back that the man had been killed, but because she was sleeping so peacefully nobody wanted to wake her. She stayed asleep and slowly became Mount Susitna. On a good day you can easily see the mountain from Anchorage, my hometown. I thought it would be kind of cool to create a giant face on its side like in the story, and then place it on a bluff with a clear view of the mountain. That way you can see my model with Susitna right behind it. I had a couple technical issues trying to work out how to sculpt it, and eventually landed with this: It...

  The stormtrooper was the first paper craft model I made for this week's homework. I had to improvise a little, because the pattern calls for an exacto knife to cut the tabs. Unfortunately, I only had a clunky cheep pair of scissors, clear tape and a pritt stick. It took a little fenagling to get the parts to all fit right, but I think he turned out pretty decent. Next was just hammering out the 3d model in 3DS Max. It was a pretty strait forward process of lining up the flat texture with each side after building the base. After getting the hang of the steps, all it took as a good chunk of time on Tuesday's session.  Unfortunately, I have had some issues with exporting the model with the texture. I thought I had fixed with by altering the pathname for the bitmap, which is what made the texture appear as it should in 3DS Max, but when I import it into SketchUp it just shows up as a flat color. I ran into a similar problem with my dice model, but after I fiddled with it the sam...