IT 10

Blender Animation

alexr2015
  1. The purpose of this project was to help us learn about Blender.
  2. I learned how to use a brand spanking new program, from modelling to animation. I’ve never used Blender before.
  3. I’m proud of the plane, as that took the most work
  4. I could improve on the landscape. But there’s not much to add, since it’s an ocean. So the landscape is pretty flat.
    I made waves though! So that’s cool, I guess.

Blender Plane

Launching a Restaurant

alexr2015
  1. This project was about faking a launch of our very own restaurant.
  2. I learned how to use formulas with Microsoft Excel
  3. I’m proud of my spreadsheet. I think it looks very professional, or polished at least.
  4. We could have done more than one take for our commercial, but I hate being in front of the camera so…
    Our menu was also pretty mediocre.

Link to a spreadsheet detailing the restaurant’s first month of operation:

https://sd43-my.sharepoint.com/personal/132-aredwood_office43_ca/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=6MmUdVjtbgKN1FUDWKaKlseO4EyA093h9Ntmvj8suWQ%3d&docid=0b3cfa62e3b594cd6915b3a00c20bd867

National Research Project (England, United Kingdom)

alexr2015
  1. My project was about England, United Kingdom. I made the document in Microsoft Word.
  2. I learned how to use headings.
  3. I’m seriously proud of the last section, “Other Tourism Highlights”
  4. I guess I could improve by adding more pictures, but I think the whole thing is pretty good.

Mock Powerpoint Website

alexr2015
  1. This project was about creating a mock website using Microsoft Powerpoint
  2. I learned about the “Master Slides” feature in Powerpoint, along with actions.
  3. I’m proud of creating the roll-over effects.
  4. I could improve on the amount of content. I didn’t put too much effort
    into looking for content to put in the “website”.

IT10: Scratch One Week Challenge

alexr2015

In IT10, the first assignment we were given was to create some sort of game on a program called Scratch. We were given the timeframe of one week, or four days. I wanted to create some sort of platformer, but I also wanted the sprites to have some sort of animation to them too. Making a character walk left and right was easy, but I already ran into some small problems there. I then tried to make my character jump, and my game creation went to a complete halt. Nothing was working after that. The code on the left is the moving left and right, while on the right side, I was playing with X and Y velocity. Nothing worked when that stuff was put in.

One thing I learned during this week in Scratch is how animations work. I never bothered to play with animations when I used this program in grade six and seven.

I wanted to create a sort of platformer with multiple levels, but obviously I was way out of my depth. I didn’t know how to create a sort of scroller, and I didn’t know how to create gravity. My character would just be floating up in the air. Certainly a failure, but hopefully I will learn.

You can see the code here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/96882655/#editor

Intro Game