OBDF210 Blog by Marina Dawson

  Creating a Castle! A Bumpy Road . By: Marina Dawson I began my first class of OBDF with Bryan thinking that I remembered most of the skills I had learned only a semester ago, I think I was a great fool. Since I hardly even remembered the rotate command, this was quite the journey of re-remembering old commands and learning new and very useful ones as well. I first began with a simple polyline drawing on the plane, but after learning a new command called revolve, I decided that I wanted to put it to use by creating a small hill. I found this to be really easy, so I took it upon myself to also get a little fancy and put my rendering skills to use.  After creating a landscape, I began to think of ways that I could make my design more intricate. So i created two different windows, and then doors. I did this by making a shape with the polyline tool, extruding it, and then creating small window shapes and then utilizing the Boolean-difference tool. This created an effect which actually mad