Project 3 - A Rough Draft

Right now this project is just a rough draft, but it will become more as time goes on. It is a surrealist pastel drawing of a cheetah running through pillar-like trees. The vertical lines are the trees and if you look closely you can see the outline of the cheetah, running and facing left. Naturally, the cheetah is covered up by the trees and covers the background behind it. However, in my vision, at parts, the cheetah will cover the trees and the sky will cover the cheetah as if the sky is actually in the foreground. It will be detailed and MUCH more defined in the final product.

Van Meter School

For this project I made a three-dimensional model of the entire Van Meter School on the computer program Google SketchUp. It is to scale and includes all the windows and details of the school. The textures like bricks and windows come from actual pictures of the school I took. It took me nearly amonth to make this model, but I finally finished it. I plan on applying to have this model uploaded to GoogleEarth before the end of the year. On GoogleEarth, everyone would be able to see the school in 3D in its proper geographic location.

A New Way to Create Art

This quarter I played around with 3D modeling software and I learned that there is a large online community of people who use this technology. They consider 3D design to be an art and take their work seriously. I read articles from some of the artists and learned techniques to use blender and google sketchup more efficiently. I also learned that there are many other 3D applications even better than the ones I've used.