Tell Your Story

Elements of Art focus: Form, Color, Texture

Principles of Design focus: Unity, Variety

Welcome to the fourth project of this trimester. Hopefully you learned a bunch more about Blender in the third project, and in an effort not to reinvent the wheel once again, I'm having you get creative and resourceful.

What to do:

You will need to do some research on the School of Youtube (HINT: there is no School, it's just Youtube) to find tutorials that teach you how to create items that will help to complete your scene and tell your story. Remember, the final project is an indoor or outdoor space where you would find your other projects (donut, table, and chairs). You are going to complete your space by creating objects that tell your story. These objects can be in the scene explicitly (obvious), or added as "Easter eggs". Either way, they must add to the story, your story. Think about the story behind the donut. Why is it there? Who is it for? What's its purpose?

Once you figure out the objects you want to make, you might ask yourself, "How to search Youtube to find what I want?" Simple! Be sure to search using some specifics like: Blender 3.x, plus what you want to create. Things like kitchen, kitchen utensils, kitchen appliances (like toaster or stovetop), bowl or fruit bowl, flowers, vase, books and/or book shelf, etc. The options are endless. You can also just find some reference images and make what you want to make without a tutorial, like how you made the chair. I'm aware that there are lots of places to download pre-made objects, and I would like to remind you about academic integrity. There are consequences for choosing to download rather than make your own objects, and I'm pretty good at detecting downloaded vs Animation 1 objects. You won't need to worry about this though, because you are here to learn, and learners do the right thing because it's worth doing.

"How many items do I need", you ask? Simple! The answer is yes...enough to complete the scene, tell the story, and turn the project in on time. You may want to plan ahead by sketching out the scene so you know what you want and can complete.

To complete this project:

1. Think about the story you want to tell. Put yourself in the scene to help give yourself ideas about the story you want to tell.
2. Search the Youtube for the items you'd like to create. If you're ready to tackle this using the tools you've learned in the previous projects, find reference images of the items you'd like to make, and make them.
3. Add your objects and Easter eggs to your Project 3 Blender file. Build all your objects in this one file. It's a good practice to name your files and the objects in them.
4. Render your work as an image file
5. Submit your image above (how to submit an assignment)
6. Add a comment briefly explaining your story. We don't want to miss out on what you have to say.
7. After you have submitted your project, and after the deadline for submission has passed, you will receive a request to complete two anonymous peer reviews (how to submit a peer review and view feedback you receive)

This project is the third part of the grander, final project where all of your projects this trimester will be combined into your own personal masterpiece.