Thursday, October 20, 2016

Hello Everyone!

     Recently, my class decided to create flyers for whatever business they chose. For my purposes, I chose a local restaurant situated in Hinton, West Virginia known as "The Market". I have enjoyed eating there for many years and they immediately popped into mind.
     For this project, I used Photoshop, gathered up the necessary images both from the website of the business and the wooden background from Creative Commons. I put all of these images into Adobe Bridge, loaded them up as layers, and assembled them over the background. I added the text for the address, phone number, email address, and their slogan of "Eat! Shop! Enjoy!" to the bottom. These are placed over black rectangle and an orange rectangle for visual flair, the same with the oval-esque shape behind the title. Then I arranged the food in a tantalizing collage format to show off their variety.

If you have any suggestions on how to improve, please let me know!

Thank You!
Allen

Hello Everyone!

     Recently, my class endeavored to make three-dimensional models using an excellent website called TinkerCad. For the class, we were to make models that we could print using a 3D printer. Very fun! I decided to make a Pokeball from the hit video game series Pokemon. Besides this, however, the process of making this model was both fun and educational.
       I used two half-spheres, making one red and a white one, which would be slightly smaller than the other. Taking a black tube, which was smaller than both half-spheres, I placed it in between both spheres. I made another tube to use as a black tube at the front of the ball inside the sphere for the black inside the indentations on the ball. Inside this were two white tubes to fit inside, one to hold the release button and the smaller as a release button for the trainer to release their Pokemon! I'm very pleased with the end result! Please take a look and let me know how I can improve!

Here is my TinkerCade account:
 https://www.tinkercad.com/users/fSpyMm98pmt-mcgraws
Or you can search for "mcgraws"

Thank You!
Allen

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Hello, Everyone!

Today, our class worked on CAD or Computer Aided Design. The online website tinkercad.com was the method of choice today and it worked quite well. I was actually extremely impressed with the depth of it and the ease of use. The following pictures are just a few of the projects the website taught me how to do.

The first photo shows that I successfully learned how to duplicate shapes, make holes, etc.
 This second photo shows that I created my own name tag key chain that I can print out.

This was a lot of fun and fulfilling! I'm excited to use the program again!