My first attempts at making people in Blender looked like this: a came up with a baby with a detachable head. She lost one of her cheeks, and she had no hands and non-moving arms. However, she's still pretty cute, isn't she? Then I moved on to these teenagers: They're pretty cute, too! I then… Continue reading Making people in Blender 3D
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Of backwards heads and mixed-race couples: Animations with kids
I had two more interesting experiences with "The grass is not trash" worth mentioning ... https://youtu.be/YjXTnnfmNuw First, did you notice that the brother has a white girlfriend? When we got to that page of the animation, I myself hadn't really decided what the girlfriend should look like. So I told the Latina girl I was… Continue reading Of backwards heads and mixed-race couples: Animations with kids
Butterfly in blender
Just made a little butterfly in Blender: It's for the animated butterfly story I'm making with the second-graders at Irvin! I taught them animation basics today, which went stupendously. And tomorrow we plan to start animating each kid's individual page (every kid does their own animation.) I made the butterfly based on this very nice… Continue reading Butterfly in blender
Animations with kids
Yesterday and today, I visited a classroom at a local school. It was really great. We haven't started animating yet or anything, or even illustrating. But we read our story (about butterflies) and talked about life cycles. One kid got carried away and after we talked about caterpillars morphing into butterflies, said something like, "and… Continue reading Animations with kids