OBDF210 Blog by Marina Dawson

  Final Blog Post  By: Marina Dawson After hours in the Think Tank, the classroom, and in my dorm on my computer, I can finally look back and reflect on my work. I have made tremendous progress and utilized more commands than I ever knew I could memorize. I am incredibly proud of myself and I feel as though I can clearly see my progress through each image of my work.   Assignment 1: Designing a Castle  At the beginning of class, I felt as though I was in over my head, I hardly remembered how to differentiate between a closed and open polysurface and therefore became frustrated when my boolean difference and union commands weren't functioning. I spent hours just trying to get basic extruded polygons on my plane, let alone re-learning basic render tools such as creating an awkward cloud background.  Although the castle turned out okay, I felt it lacked creativity and uniqueness because I was so limited on time and constantly struggled. By the second week, I even became insecure about

Milestone Project: 3D Printed Chess Set After hours of working away on this project. I have never been so pleased with the outcome of one of my projects. After 6 hours of modeling in Rhino, 10 hours in the thing tank, and 2 hours of filing and gluing everything together I am so incredibly proud of what I made.   I began by drafting some images of what the project should look like based off of images from the web from my favorite video game Skyrim Elder Scrolls. Skyrim has been a massive part of my childhood as a dorky kid with only a couple of friends, I found that I would often escape from the bullying I experienced around the age of 13 and play the game after getting home from school.  Therefore, this project was not only emotional for me but the pieces themselves were fun to design and meaningful to me.  I found that in the beginning stages of modeling my only concern was deciding what artifacts from the game should be queen, king, rook, etc... However, after the first stage of a ro