Evan’s portfolio
My name is Evan, and I am going into sixth grade. Some of my projects I am working on are a La Jolla Country Day 3-D model in Tinkercad. Also in Tinkercad, I’ve been working on our own personal trophies. I’ve also been working on a Laser Cutting project with Adobe Illustrator. The laser cutting project I’m working on is some Seattle Seahawks stuff, because I’m an avid Seahawks fan. The sequence of our programs we’ve been working on are Adobe Illustrator, Google Sketchup, and Tinkercad.
My favorite project in Adobe Illustrator is my “wearables” project. The reason why this project is my favorite is mostly because of the Seattle Seahawks design. I am a die hard, avid, Seattle Seahawks fan, and I am not a bandwagon. Another reason why this project is my favorite is because of the awesome glasses that I made with the direct selection tool.. It was also really fun tracing the Seahawks logo.
My favorite project in Tinkerkad is the eco-invention project. I made the sunglasses also swimming goggles, with changable lenses for either swimming or sightseeing. For swimming, you can attach the pink strap to the earhooks, and then, just insert them onto your head and change the lenses though. It also comes with a free cleaning kit! What made it pretty fun is thinking of this idea after reading the article that Mr.Gaffney told us to read. It is 100% recyclable, multipurpose, and can last you at least 5 years!
My progression through Adobe Illustrator is really extraodinary and is pretty awesome that I did all this. I haven’t taken Industrial Design yet and before this class, I had 0 experience in these programs. I think my toughest Illustrator project was either the Monitor Lizard or the Flatiron Building sketch.
My progression through Tinkerkad is huge! Before this camp, I’ve never had any experience with Tinkerkad, and now I know a whole lot more. I think the tool that made it the easier on us is the transport from tool (stls or svgs). You can turn 2-D things from Adobe Illustrator into 3-D things in Tinkerkad. My most complex design is the Flatiron Building because all the windows and the floorplan were complex to draw.
Intro to programming:
I had a great year in processing this year. I took this class last year with Mr. Tony, I think I have learned a lot since the with Mr. Bank. I learned a lot in Scratch, I learned about everything. In my Marshawn Lynch game, everything in that game I learned from Mr. Bank. We didn’t do Scratch last year, so it was new to me. Personally, I think that Scratch is just an easier way to do Processing, still made by M.I.T., is just a kid friendly way that is already programmed out for you. About anything you can do on Scratch you can do in Processing, it just takes longer.
In Scratch, I learned just about everything. In my Seahawks Impossible Game, Marshawn Lynch is jumping over 49ers defenders, I used a lot of repeating clones, as in; when the game starts, Aldon Smith comes at you, when you score 10+ point, Eric Reid comes at you, and over 20 points, Patrick Willis joins the tackling club. I also added the “to first down” feature, and you have to gain 25 yards, and if you do the game keeps going. It also features commentator Chris Collinsworth, who says something after you have a 10+ yard run. I’m going to add on to this game, and some of my plans are you can actually score a touchdown, and maybe I will create an all out football game.
Last year, I did an Archery Game for my final project, and it was really, really isn’t that advanced. The differences:Old one:no point score for each ring, no “you win” feature, no epic crossbow, no bowstring, better graphics, first person, got rid of the polygon shaped dude, got rid of the arm guard, no glitch of changing colors, instead of controlling the target with the mouseX is controlled automatically by the computer, added extra beziers for the crossbow look, added triangle for stock and scope, deleted wacky scope and no stand for the longbow, ones for the crossbow are little lines with a stroke amount of 10. Some of the things I used to create this crossbow archery game are lots of beziers, lines, triangles, and rects.
Last year, Mr. Tony taught me the basics. This year, Mr. Bank has really, I mean really upgraded my knowledge of Processing and Scratch. I learned just about everything in Scratch, and some pretty advanced things from Mr. Bank. I’m glad I have the chance to do Processing and Scratch. I have learned so much from these two programs. Special thanks to M.I.T. for creating these to programs.