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Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


For the Explorations Project, students are tasked to explore their own passion and improve upon a particular skill of their choosing. I decided to explore my interest in 3D art as Animation students move from 2D Animation into 3D, I also thought it would be enjoyable to chose something that I love so dearly.

The 21st Century Skill that I expanded upon was Technological Literacy<\/strong>, which is about what technology is, how it works, what purposes it can serve, and how it can be used efficiently and effectively to achieve specific goals. While I knew Blender beforehand, this project made me use my understand of the program to achieve a goal, which was to model a 3D environment. An argument could be made that you use Technological Literacy whenever you model in 3D software. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animation – Process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Concept Art of Project<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my Explorations Project, I decided to model the front of the “Fazbear’s Fright” building from “Five Nights at Freddy’s 3”. I enjoy playing the games and I wanted to show my appreciation to them, I’m not sure where I obtained the inspiration to model this specifically, it came to mind and I thought it would be fun to model.

I started off with concept art, there weren’t any official depictions of what the front looked like, so I looked at images online and created the concept art shown above:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the images used for my concept, huge inspiration in terms of color and design.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, I moved onto modeling, texturing, and setting up the lighting of the project. Most of the project was created using Blender, with the occasion of texture work like the logo, which I used Illustrator to create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work in progress screenshots\/early render shots<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This process took a considerable amount of time, but was necessary for the project. With the combination of modeling, manually texturing, and setting up lighting, it took around 10 hours of total work. I faced a ton of issues when it came to texturing, splitting the model into a few vertices and wrapping the textures onto them took a bit of tinkering. The work I put into this project was worth it, I was originally going to add more things into the environment but had to cut it out due to time. While I had some issues with planning beforehand, having a strong idea of what I wanted led to me getting the project done on time.

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Finished Product<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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This was single handedly my favorite project in Freestyle, it was short, sweet, and was an absolute blast to make. I may be a bit biased for this opinion (but aren’t opinions already biased and subjective?) because I already make 3D art, but this was actually preparation for Senior year Animation, so I practiced modeling and texturing in this project. Because of this project, I’m confident in what I can create in Animation next year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation of my Explorations Project:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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