Today we started the 2.5D project. We plan to create a butterfly thats wings move. We plan to have the butterfly fit inside of an 8.5x11 sheet of paper. We plan to have a heaxagon design on the wings. 

I drew my kitchen timer while I was making pancakes and bacon. 

Today we spent all of our time on Fusion, learning the basics and how to work it. At first we spent time learning how to make a trick cup with a hole in it and then we actaully made a cup with specific dimensions. Making the specific cup with the real dimensions was much easier for me because we learned how to make half of it and then revolve it. At the end of the day, we had to pick some tool from the shop and then make it in Fusion. My partner and I made a screw driver. At first we were struggling with it since there were a lot of areas of it being round and not having exact dimensions. However, we then figured out that we could just make half of it and then revolve it into the whole object. While making the screw driver we learned the new tool of spline which was helpful because then we could just make the points our own and not have to worry about the exact dimensions. 

Today we learned how to navigate Rhino to make two dimensional shapes. We learned how to use commands to input shapes and to change different settings, which allowed us to learn how to join the shapes, scale them, split them, etc... We then started working on our 2.5D creatures. Olivia and I decided to design a penguin. We also decided that we were going to try to get the penguin's beak to open and wings to move, by attaching string under both of the wings and under the bottom beak. We then started sketching what we visioned the final product to look like and decided that we want it to be six inches in height. We also started picturing how many cardboard cutouts we would need to make up the body of the penguin and estimated about 12. Tomorrow we will use Rhino to create the shapes, and then build the penguin.

For my self sketch I chose to have the background be a coffee table I have in my livingroom. I also incorporated the objects on the table. I deffinetly want to take a better picture of it in the studio tommorrow. 

Today we worked on a orthographic fruit project, where we sketched different parts of an apple. First, I sketched the front and back of the apple. Then, I sketched the top and bottom. Next I cut the the apple in half horizonatally and sketched the two halves. Lastly, I cut one of the halves in half ad sketched the two parts. This project helped me see that there is more to an object that what the eye first sees. 

For this assignment, I took originally started the sketch at school, however because of time limitations, I changed the location and perspective of my sketch to my mom's office. I drew it at her desk, trying to incorporate as many things as possible, without over crowding the sketch.

Today at Nuvu, we learned about drawing 3-D objects on 2-D media. We learned how to show all features, by drawing the objects at a one to one scale. We learned how there is a parallel and projection method which is based on what the eyes can see. Once at parallel, it then goes to oblique and orthographic and then once at orthographic it can go into axonometric and multiview. The line of sight was also taught today but we didn't draw it out. The difference between parallel projection (line of sight) and perspective projection is that parallel doesn't really exist, it is not seen from the eye. When doing our apple dawings we learned how to describe a 3-D object with qualitative vs. quantitative. We also learned the different sections, there is cross and plan sections and then we also learned the three elevations (side, top and bottom). We spent time today drawing the different sections and elevations of an apple.