I’m finally catching up on all my blog posts!  I’d hardly had any time at all to blog between K12′s Blender and k12′s Japanese, but thanks to winter break I can catch up here. Anyway, for project 6 I used an entirely new way of modeling: starting with a grid, stretching it into a 2D car shape based on an image file, and using extrusion to make it a 3D object.  As a little addition, I dragged the Monkey from projects 3 and 4, putting it in a driving position.  For the assignment, I was supposed to reshape the car, make it smoother and add some more parts.  My addition there was adding actual lamps for my added-on headlights.  Here they are:

Well, I do tend to be a little bit original with my celebrations.  I even came up with a song for this one! On the first day of Doomsday my true love just told me that the Earth exploded on the TV!  On the second day of Doomsday my true love just told me that there were two giant earthquakes and that Earth exploded on the TV! On the third day of Doomsday my true love just told my that there were three exploding cars, two giant earthquakes and the Earth exploding on the TV!  On the fourth day of Doomsday my true love just told me that there were four hurricanes, three exploding cars, two giant earthquakes, and the Earth exploding on the TV! On the fifth day of Doomsday my true love just told me: there were FIVE KAIJU THINGS!  Four hurricanes, three exploding cars, two giant earthquakes, and the Earth exploding on the TV! On the sixth day of Doomsday my true love just told my that there were six alien landings, FIVE KAIJU THINGS!  Four hurricanes...

But first, an update on the K12/k12 argument: The logo looks like a lowercase “k” to the twelfth power.  However, given that company names are proper nouns, it would then be capitalized.  So now, the only question is this: do we side with the logo or the grammar?  Hmmm… Now then, for project 5, I was supposed to use a stencil texture to make two different textures appear on the same object.  Here’s an example: Here, I made a pink cloud texture and a “magic” texture.  I then used a striped stencil texture to make the pink clouds seem to be striped over the magic.  Essentially, stencils “cut” a texture to make another one show. Well, that was what I was supposed to do for my ground with two image-based textures.  Here’s my standard terrain: I created the hills and valley using Proportional Editing, a useful tool that smoothly forms an object to look more like, well, hills and valleys.  Here’s how it works: when I move a vertex, it a...