k12 Project 2: Build a House UPDATED

I have now added Assignment 2!  Now, I’d like to clarify some details about my Blender classes.  There are actually two parts of each assignment.  The first one is something you must do aided by a walkthrough of each step (or “projects”–Suzanne was the last one) and part two is when you are told to do something and are shown the minimal requirements (which are just called assignments–the eggs).  Now here is my second project: build a house.  This involved constraining my camera to a path, which I believe is part of the parenting family.
Paths are new to me; I just learned them during the class.  A path is a one-dimensional line that can’t be seen while being rendered (made into a picture/movie), and one can constrain any object to it to make the object follow it.  Anyway, my “special addition” to the house is: interior decoration!

What, adding a table and a Minecraft-inspired bed isn’t enough for you??  *Sigh*. okay, whatever you want, but…

UPDATE: I now have ready assignment 2, “Make a Desert Island”.  I was given several shapes–part of a tree, a “leaf” and a “coconut”.  They left it to me to color them in, make a path for the camera and .  My “special addition” for this assignment is: Dessert Island!

It was again the Prime Minister’s idea to put dessert on the desert, and I decided to extend the idea to include a sign which is–unfortunately–both dark, blurry and quickly moving.  If you pause the YouTube you can see the text:
BUY NOW! Dessert Island $4.99 + Shipping. Includes dessert!  CALL NOW at: (314)-159-2653

NOTE: The phone number is a pun on pi, the number (Π=3.141592653…) and does not lead anywhere of my knowledge, so don’t actually dial it or anything.
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