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OBDF 210A - ASSIGNMENT [02.) MAKE THESE SHAPES] - Jayden (Gillian) Nese

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  The biggest challenge I had with this project came from the fourth shape and the sixth shape, I struggled with the arc tool a lot and I still think I'm figuring it out, though the last shape I had a problem with the offset tool thinking I needed to select the circles as well, it was a bit of a silly realization when I found out it wasn't asking for that. Getting help from my classmates was my saving grace.

OBDF 210A - ASSIGNMENT [01.) CASTLE] - Jayden (Gillian) Nese

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  For my castle I decided to make a candy cake inspired off of the candy kingdom from Adventure Time. I got the idea because while playing around with moving shapes in class I put a ball on top of a cone and thought it would be fun to go in a more playful direction for the project. I'm rather bad at geometric shapes and creating mechanical designs such as architecture in a way that looks like it makes sense in the world so letting myself have an easier introduction to 3D modeling felt far less scary.  I think I was most successful in the smaller assets that I created for this project, things like the popsicles and chocolate bar all came out really well, though my weakest point I find is the icing as it doesn't look all that convincing as a colored tube rather than having that organic cresting proper piping does. As much as I wanted to implement this, I'm still learning and am very new and had no idea where to start otherwise. The biggest struggle for me was simply the learn...