Polygons in the Rough

Okay so I haven't gotten that far in making my Moldy Vote pin, so let's talk about the digital methods class I'm taking for a moment instead.

Bam, a sort of southwesty looking hut.

Bam, the back of the ratty hut with a giant mouse jumping off the roof.

Bam, a swank interior with the chairs.

Here's one separate for your perusal (Bam!).

Bam, the barely passable animation. Notice anything different from the images?

Either my knowledge of Sketchup is embaressingly small or its got a few quirks since you may have noticed that the background color is different in the animation than it is in most of the still images. That is because even though the program is smart enough to apply the changes you make to the 3D model to all your "frames" of animation it can't handle changing the background color too. Here I am against a deadline so the animation remains as I had it.

Here is how far I have gotten on the Moldy Vote pin by the way. I have the back plate roughed out and currently doing a test threading of the front with the check mark. the next steps are to drill two more thread holes, solder the halves together, solder the pin back on, and then add the patriotic ribbon among whatever other steps I forgot.

For other random news I found out by never having switched my homepage off of MSN, apparently Russia just revealed they have a huge stash of industrial diamonds. Supposedly it's enough high quality industrial diamonds to supply the world for 3,000 years. I'm a wee bit skeptical about the claims, but if havoc is wreaked on the price of the shiny pieces of carbon soon we'll know why.

 

Today's sound interlude is brought to us by the Olsen Gang's 1976 movie The Olsen Gang Sees Red, particulary the most famous scene in which the comedic criminal gang breaks into a theater in time to the opera music playing. Do enjoy, and brush up on your Danish too!