My Application I applied two years ago and my application didn’t move on to the semi-finals. As a favor to you just starting your application, let’s go through mine to see where you can do better. My application Here's the summary of my proposal: "I will undertake a series of animated film projects at schools… Continue reading My best tips for your Fulbright-National Geographic Application!
Tag: Blender3D
The YouTube sleeper
I think a "sleeper" is a movie that no one thinks is going to do that well, and then it takes over the box office. My YouTube videos are like that, if you chop off the "takes over" part. My videos are like David and Goliath, but David loses. Any case, I think people are… Continue reading The YouTube sleeper
Feeling ghosted – Animations with kids
I feel like I have very bad follow-through sometimes when it comes to my Science animations with kids program. Sometimes, it's my fault. Like at my last viewing party, about 30 parents, grandparents, aunts, everyone, showed up. I gave them all a little slip of paper with the URL of my website (the one you're… Continue reading Feeling ghosted – Animations with kids
GIS and Blender at once
Two of my favorite pieces of software are QGIS - used for making maps on a computer - and Blender 3D - used for 3D animations. Both of these pieces of software, furthermore, are open-source. That means they are free for anyone to download. Every time I make an animation with a group of kids,… Continue reading GIS and Blender at once
Five-year-olds computer animating
Is there a minimum age-limit when it comes to computer animation? Well, I'm sure there is for toddlers and babies, but in the summer camp I'm in, there's three little kids that are entering kindergarten in September. They're all five. They reach out their hand for me to hold if I chance to walk them… Continue reading Five-year-olds computer animating
Animating at a summer camp
I had written a dour and grim post about the futility of applying to grants, but before it went live, I actually received one. Which means I was able to do one more 'Animations with kids' project in Concord before my run here ends (at least for the expected near future.) I am working with… Continue reading Animating at a summer camp
Animations of geology
In the last few weeks, I made one of the coolest things I ever made in Blender: these planetary marbles rolling towards each other while swirling inside: planetary marbles in #blender3d #b3d #planetaryScience #evolvingEarth pic.twitter.com/CzKp2Fi7wz — Lila Gardiner (@lilagardiner) June 9, 2019 And before that, I made a volcano and a glacier. I've been blendering… Continue reading Animations of geology
Making people in Blender 3D
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
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
Animations with kids: do the kids actually learn anything?
The main idea of "Animations with kids" is that the kids learn some science in a friendly, storytelling way. So when I was writing the story for "Mr. Glump and the poisonous pond", I had hopes that the second-graders, and anyone watching the film, would come away knowing exactly how algae kills fish: that when… Continue reading Animations with kids: do the kids actually learn anything?
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