journal # 37

Last day of journaling. How did your expectations meet up with your experience?

Was there anything you did that you did not expect?

Was there something you wanted to do, but we did not do?

Did we move too fast? slow?

Give a general overview of your experience with the class.

My expectations of this class matched the experience, it was really fun.

I did not expect my work to come out as good as it did.

We did just about everything i wanted to.

the tempo of the class was just right, even though some of the projects took longer than expected.

All and all, this class made me more excited about someday going into the gaming industry

 

Journal #36

Write a Haiku about your experience with maya.

This class was so fun

Too bad it is nearly done

next year will come quick

Journal #35

While it is against the law in many states to marry your sister or first cousin there in no law forbidding a man from marrying his widow's sister.

Why not?

because you would be dead.

Journal #34

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has one whole apple and one apple stays in the basket.

give an apple to four kids and the last apple, split it in 2 for 2 kids.

Journal #33

There are three clay containers. One of them has only pennies from the year 2005 in it, one has only pennies from the year 2007 in it, and the third has an equal number of each. They are labeled "2005", "2007" and "mixed", however, you know that the labels have been switched, so that each container is marked incorrectly. Can you properly label the containers without looking in them, and only pulling one coin out from one container?

pull one coin out, read the date, if it says 2005, put it back and reach into the others. if you find two 2005's guess which container is mixed and which one is 2005

Journal #30

No black dots, just 24 white dots

Journal #29

i failed 2 times, but on the third time, i made it to he 3rd level and had a score of 18,853.

Journal #28

What are the following? Define or describe what an object looks like in each mode and why you might need to use that mode instead of the other three.

Vertex mode

Edge Mode

Object mode

Face mode

vertex mode on an object looks like blue lines with little purple dots on each vertices. We use this mode to further define our object. We could use this mode more than the others because this mode lets us define the object in better detail.

The object in Edge Mode is outlined in blue lines. we can use this mode to make spokes and other more complicated objects. 

Object Mode is the basic mode you are in. The object looks shaded with green lines. We use this mode more than the others because in this mode we can rotate, move, and scale the whole object.

Face Mode looks like edge mode but has little blue dots in the middle of each "face". We use this mode to work on individual faces on the object. This is the only mode in which we can manipulate the faces and make more complex shapes.

Journal #27

A woman lives on the tenth floor of an apartment building. Every morning she takes the elevator all the way down, and goes to work. In the evening, she gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in it she goes back to her floor directly. Otherwise, she goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to her apartment. why?

Give two possible solutions to the question.

In the evening she is tired and rides the elevator with some one else.

she is full of energy and needs to burn it off.

Journal #26

There are four people in an adventure race that need to get across a lake. They have a small canoe. The rules say that only the slowest person in the canoe can paddle, only one or two can be in the canoe at a time, and they must all cross in the canoe. From practice, they know that: Ann can paddle across in 1 minute. Bill can paddle across in 2 minutes. Sue can paddle across in 5 minutes. Mike can paddle across in 10 minutes.

How do they get everyone across the river in the fastest time without breaking the rules?

Mike and sue go first which would take 10 minutes. sue goes back which will take 5 min. and she takes back bill. bill goes back for ann and they made it. 

Journal #25

Often when designing a story, we can get pigeon holed into a character even though there are better options available, if we would just take the time to explore.

Today modify your protagonist's physical appearance. If he/she/it is ragged make them a royal. I f they are big and buff, make them small and agile. If they look brash and dangerous like a viking warrior, make them quiet, classy and reserved like a british solider.

Look how you could enhance your story by altering your characters appearance.

my character is a serious person but comes off as a jumpy, comedic, hyper person

Journal #23

Resolution

Every conflict must at some point (or at multiple points) reach a resolution.

It my not be the end of the story, or the ultimate end of the conflict, but it should bring some closure.

It may resolve well or poorly, but there should always be a resolution or a perceived resolution that a player can struggle towards.

Without that hope, players will flounder off track or simply give up.

How does the conflict in your story resolve.

The character resolves his conflict by having the determination "you" give him. You can give him that final push to make him overcome the conflicts in his life. 

Journal #22

Conflict

Describe a typical conflict that your character faces during your story.

It can be physical, emotional, psychological.

It can involve other players, NPCs, or a mental or physical challenge such as a puzzle or obstacle.

The conflict your character will face will be physical, psychological, and emotional. All three of these aspects revolve around your character everyday of his life. His physical conflict will come from weight training, conditioning, and practice. His emotional conflict affects his decisions  and actions around his life. This also affects the way he will perform on and off the mat. The psychological aspect is his biggest obstacle because he has to have it in his mind to train and wrestle like a champion.

Journal #21

Continue to elaborate on the summary you created on day 13 and worked on over the last few days.

I finished the summary of my story

Journal #20

Yesterday you began to elaborate on the summary you created on day 13. Continue doing that today.

The summary gives you the basics on which you can hang the details of your story.

Over the next few days, you will add muscle and flesh to your story.

Tell us more about the bits and pieces that you gave us previously.

Using a narrative format, weave the summary into a story.

As before, you are in high school training to be a state champion and overcoming obstacles in your way. "John Doe" faces emotional conflict trying to balance relationships and school work.

Journal #19

On day 13 you created a summary of your story.

The summary gives you the basics on which you can hang the details of your story

Over the next few days, you will add muscle and flesh to your story.

Tell us more about the bits and pieces that you gave us previously.

Using a narrative format, weave the summary into a story.

Your character was a wrestler ever since he was four. He worked throughout the pain and tears of practice and miles of cardio training. You are a freshman in high school and the state championship is in  your grasp for 4 straight years. However you accumulated many rivals on your way to be a champion.  

Journal #17

Yesterday you described the physical aspects of your games antagonist.

Today tell us about the antagonist's psychological past and how it affects who he/she/it is today.

What has the character gone through that has made him/her/it who they are today? Are they insane? Misunderstood, fighting for an alternate good? Greedy, power hungry? Or just plain mean?

This is not written to create suspense, it should help you understand your character, write everything you know about your character.

My antagonists have many different backgrounds. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all have a wrestling background. All of them have done wrestling since they were very young and have progressively gotten better. All the antagonists are mean on the mat, like you are supposed to be. Every one is fighting for the same goal of being a NCAA National Champion. All the characters have gone through sweat and tears to be a state champion and make it to the NCAA finals.

Journal #16

Yesterday you described the protagonist

Today tell us about the physical aspects of the main antagonist/bad guy/ boss.

You may have many little "bad guys" but there should be one main boss.

Tell us about hoe he/she/it looks physically just as you did with the protagonist. 

If your story wont have an antagonist character, tell us about a secondary  character that your story will have.

Is that character helpful or harmful to the protagonist.

The little "bad guys" I guess you can say is all of the opponents you will wrestle as you go through the season. These "bad guys" will look like the actual wrestlers from that year. The main "boss" will be whoever you wrestle at the NCAA finals. Again he will look like his actual counterpart from that year. 

Journal #14

On friday you created the summary idea for a game.

Today create a short write up describing the physical characteristics of the protagonist/hero.

For my game, you are the protagonist. what I mean by that is the way your character looks is totally up to you. Hair, skin, eyes, strength, age, clothes, etc. is fully customizable. 

Journal #11

Write the intro scenario for a new game.

Your story starts as the protagonist walks into a large dimly lit, musty chamber. He/she/it sees a huge alien black cylinder glowing softly in the center of the room.

He/she/it walks over and touches it. The room begins to crumble. Dark and intense music plays, the screen fades to black and the gameplay begins...

Write an outline of the story that leads up to the scene above.

An easy mission to repair a docking station around Iris 4. John Miller, an expert laser technician, is called to complete the repairs. while walking around the station he finds out that things are not right and that most of the crew is gone. 

Journal #10

File compression works by finding repeating elements and encoding them using a key.

eg: the three kids threw the ball through the theater.

Key: "th=2" and "thre=3"

2e 3e kids 3w 2e ball 2rough 2e 2eater. (saved 14 characters)

Encode the following sentence using a key that you design:

Jack Sprat would eat no fat, his wife would eat no lean. And so between the two of them they licked the platter clean.

Keys: "th=2" "no=3" "jack=4" "sprat=5" "woul=6"

4 5 6d eat 3 fat, his wife 6d eat 3 lean. And so between 2e two of 2em 2ey licked 2e platter clean

Journal #9

Write a short synopsis of a first player educational video game.

The game should teach multiplication and division to young kids (ages 7-11)

Give a short description that you could pitch to a development company within the time it takes to ride three floors up an elevator.

Star Wars: Luke's Adventures

You play as Luke Skywalker on planets Tatooine, Degobah, Cloud City, and The Death Star. the object is to destroy droids and aliens by solving multiplication and division problems. You start out easy and at the end you fight Darth Vader in a math battle.

Journal #8

How was your spring break?

Write about it in your journal today.

 

My spring break was pretty cool. I got a new laptop, even though it has Windows Vista, it still is a pretty good computer. I also bought Spore for the computer which I think is a very fun and worthy game. I wasted most of my break playing that game.

Journal #7

If you were given $2,000,000 that had to be spent in one day on things that would disappear after that day, what would you spend it on?

e.g.: investments would disappear after the day.

e.g.: A house would revert to the banks ownership.

e.g.: Services would cease at the end of the day

e.g.: A trip would have to end at the end of the day.

I would buy lots and lots of games and systems just to play throughout the day. I would also buy a lot of food and drinks to tie me over. The rest would be given to charity.

Journal #6

Eskimos are excellent hunters who have a great reverence for the world and animals around them, traditionally they have not hunted penguins.

Why do you think this is? What cultural, religious or other factors do you think would influence their decision?

I don' think they hunt penguins because maybe they believe that the penguins are a sacred animal. Therefore they might think that hunting penguins is against their religion.

Journal #5

It is a scientific fact that although the peacock is a bird and resembles other birds in many respects, it neither gives birth to live offspring as a mammal does, nor does it lay eggs as other birds do.

If the above statement is true, how are baby peacocks born? Where do they come from? How do they arrive in our world?

peacocks are born from peahens. they come from peahens. They are laid in eggs from peahens. 

Journal #4

A man left home in a hurry and ran a ways, then he turned left and ran the same distance, finally he turned left again, and then ran home.

When he got home there were two masked men waiting for him.

Who were they?

The catcher and the umpire

Journal #3

I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a pail and I will make it lighter. What am I?

Light

Journal #2

I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home because I couldn't find it.

What was it?

fresh air

Journal #1

Today is the first day of CMT 135 Introduction to 3D Animation.

As we begin write about your hopes and expectations of this class.

Do you expect to turn your skills into a career or is this simply a hobby for you?

Where do you see yourself in five years regarding your career goals. Would you like to work for PIXAR, ILM, VALVE or some small independent design shop?

I hope to learn about 3D modeling and animation so i can turn those skills into a career. i would like to work for a company like pixar, but my passion would be for gaming like Bungie or Harmonix. hopefully in five years, i'll be working as an intern at the least at a game company.

Journal #101

Today is the final day of class.

Reflect on the past 45 days of class.

What did you enjoy? What did you dislike?

What would like to have learned?

What can you take away from this class?

In this class I enjoyed learning about illustrator and the spray tool, plus i loved doing all of the projects we had. The only thing I disliked about this section was the structure test. I'm pretty comfortable with what I learned this 9 weeks. What I can take away from this class is all of the cool and useful stuff I learned.

Journal #100

I make you weak at the worst of all times.

I keep you safe, I keep you fine.

I make your hands sweat and your heart grow cold.

I visit the weak, but seldom the bold.

I afflict men and women, both young and old.

I will command your attention, but seldom deserve it.

What am I?

fear

Journal #99

Parallel we always go.

When things get hard we rarely show.

A history of time gone by

though time will fade us by and by.

The more that you take of me

the more of me you have leave.

What am I?

Your Legs

Journal #98

Be you ever so quick, with vision so keen,

by your eyes, we are never seen, 

unless perchance it should come to pass,

you see our reflection in the looking glass.

Who are we?

your eyes

Journal #97

On a recent TV show, a woman admitted that she had cheated on her husband and would leave him if her ex boyfriend would have her, she had lied on her resume and she was once arrested for stealing from her employer, and yet she still considered herself a good person?

What is your definition of "GOOD"? In a paragraph or two, explain what constitutes a bad person is, does or does not do.

My definition of a good person is that they do the right things. A good person is one that opens doors for ladies, helps the elderly cross the street, and is polite to others. Someone who is respectable, doesn't do drugs, doesn't drink, is a nice person, and knows right from wrong. These qualities to me describe a "GOOD" person. 

Journal #95

Objects and ideas only make sense in relationship to other objects or ideas.

Why do we see this kitten as tiny?

Would it be possible to make it look huge?

How?

We see the kitten as tiny because it is in the palm of a person's hand. Plus the length of the kitten is about the size of the palm.

yes it would be possible to make it look huge, we could make it look like two guys are holding the kitten up.

Journal #94

If you break me,

I do not stop working.

If you touch me and I may be Snared.

If you lose me,

Nothing will matter.

What am I?

heart

Journal #93

You are lost in the wilderness without a compass, GPS, cell phone etc., You have lost your sense of direction, but know that there is a creek to the west of you about 10 miles. If you can find the creek and follow it, you are sure to find people camping and fishing who can help you.

Over the course of 10 miles you could veer North or South by only a few degrees and you would miss the creek.

Come up with three ways that you can find North.

You may use the web if you need it to help you find the three solutions.

One way is that you could just keep going left until you hit the creek and follow it up. 

Another way is that you could look at where your shadow is pointing and follow that.

One other way is looking at the sunrise since it rises in the west.

Journal #90

A person is lying dead in the middle of a field. Four feet away is a backpack the contents of which was meant to save his life, but instead was the cause of his death. He did not intentionally kill himself and nobody else harmed him. he did not die of natural causes. What was the man carrying in his backpack?

The man was Skydiving. The parachute in the bag was supposed to help him fall slower.

Journal #89

Begin with an unmarked tub that contains a little more than 17 gallons of water

You have a three gallon and a five gallon measuring device. Without losing any water, measure out four gallons and twelve gallons into two separate unmarked tubs

You cannot retrieve water from the unmarked tubs once you have added it.

Fill the five gallon tub all of the way, then dump it in  the three gallon so you have two gallons in the five gallon tub. repeat to get two gallons. there should then be 14 gallons left in the tub.

Journal #86

Abraham Lincoln is credited with the saying that it is better to remain silent and have everyone think that you are an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

What did he mean by this statement?

Do you agree or disagree and why?

I think that he meant that it is better to stand there and have everyone think what they want to think than open your mouth and probably make it worse. I believe if you know that its right, than that is your own assumption, best not make it worse by opening your mouth. Plus its respectful to just take it than say something back.

Journal #85

Describe the image in as much detail as you can remember.

This is a black and white image with the picture of a kid wearing shorts and a shirt standing out in the middle of a field. In the background there is a house, chapel, or school that is about two stories. There are white fixtures on the stairway to the door. There is also a little building in the back of the school, chapel, or house. The sky looked like a cloudy day with a little black blotch on the lower horizon.  

Journal #84

The man who is good at excuses is seldom good for anything else.

-Samuel Foote

The implications of this poem are probably, well for one, that anyone who makes excuses will probably not know what he is doing. I agree with this quote because if you live your whole life doing nothing but make excuses, you will not go far in life and will probably be good for nothing.

The kind of man I think Samuel Foote was, was probably at one point in his life a man who made excuses. It probably occurred to him that making excuses got him nowhere so he made that quote.

Journal #82

Use the three new checks to continue writing the story that you started yesterday.

Did I say happy ever after? Well, turns out that the broken bones Michael suffered started to stick out of his body. So Jane, being the loving wife that she is, went to Griggs Formal Wear and bought her husband clothes for his newly acquired "limbs". So, for Michael to recover faster, he had to go to rehab. So one day Jane tells Michael that they have to go to the funeral house. Now of course Michael thought that they were going for him and freaked out and ran. So Jane went by herself to buy a casket for their great-great-grandfather.

Journal #81

Using the information on the three checks, create a story that fits the timeline.

Jane went down to Toys 'R' Us and bought her son Jake $230.28 of whatever he wanted. Her son was ecstatic with joy that he went to play with his toys right away. Little did Jane know that Jake had scattered all of his toys around the house. When her husband, Michael, returned home from work, he tripped over Jake's toys, fell, and broke many bones in his body.  Having the worst luck possible, he had to drive himself to the hospital. He also had to write the check for the hospital with his crippled hand. When Michael came home the next day, he gave the prescription the doctor had given him, to Jane. They both then went to the nearest Target Superstore and bought $352.34 worth of medicine. They all lived a happy life.........except for Michael, who had bone problems for the rest of his life.

Journal #80

We should every might call ourselves to an account; what infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. 

I agree with this saying because I myself ask these questions at night before I go to sleep. I believe that these questions I ask myself make me a better person overall because the answers tell me what I should and shouldn't do. So yes, good quote. 

Journal #79

Gum's step mother's husband was an eccentric man who had three sons. The first was named while he worked as a pea farmer, so he named his first son "snap". The second son was named while he was sitting in front of a roaring fire, so he named the second son "krackle". Finally his third son was born while he worked at a cereal processing plant. What did he name his third son?

He named his third son Gum. Since it was Gum's step mother's husband, that means that he is their dad.

Journal #76

Outside knowledge can enhance an idea.

Why do we sense danger, hope, fear, love , anticipation?

How can you show it in your 2D designs?

How we sense danger, hope, etc. i think is just by instinct. We just know when there is danger, hope, fear, etc. 

I believe we can show it in our 2D designs by having facial expressions, depth, and objects. Facially we can see the emotions of the character. Certain objects can enhance the mood of the design.

Journal #75

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Journal #74

Ts'i mahnu uterna ot twan ot geifur hingts uto

"It's human nature to want to figure things out"

Journal

Private Venture Space Craft: SpaceShipOne, attached to an experimental launch craft. craft like this may allow the public to vacation in space in the not so distant future.

This aircraft may lead to a creation of another craft that can take you to the moon and allow you to walk on the moon. Maybe we could make more discoveries in space.

Technologies that will probably come in the not-so-far future will probably be computers that are really pens. I believe that robotics will be big also. I also think that the first android will be built and walking among us.

Journal

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -Elbert Hubbard

i think the quote means exactly what it is saying. a machine can out do an ordinary man, but that one extraordinary man will exceed the limitations of a machine. 

i agree with this quote because i believe that a person willing to go an extra mile will beat out anyone in his/her way. if you don't push yourself, you're just going to get beaten by a machine.

what comes to mind when i see this quote is the story about the rail spike machine and the rail road worker. the rail road worker challenged the rail road machine to a challenge on who could lay down the most rail spikes. the rail road worker won, but unfortunately died shortly after winning.

Journal

(cont.) 

my plan to succeed is to work hard and dedicate my free time to my work. what i hope will set me apart from the rest of the pack, is my ability to do what i am told and my habit to get the job done on time. 

Journal

What are your hopes professionally? Ie: how do you plan on earning a living?

my hopes professionally is to work at a video game industry (any) and work as a graphic designer or animator. if that doesn't work, i'll probably do what my dad does which is product managing at a mining company.

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